DEAR News Of The Area, LINDA Dalton’s letter “Affordable housing benefits us all” (NOTA, 31/7/2026) shows that she, and many others, completely misunderstand the reasons why many in Urunga and elsewhere object to the proposal to use Lot 1, Ferry Street, Urunga as a site for affordable housing. We agree that affordable housing should benefit […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Nuclear power plants consume millions of litres of water per day to cool their extremely hot reactor cores. This year summer heatwaves and falling rainfall have defeated several of Europe’s nuclear plants, forcing them to reduce power or shut down completely, and leading to an energy crisis. One vital water […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM 65, and only now do I finally understand the shape of my own mind. Only now do I have the word that explains the shyness, the exhaustion, the confusion, the lifelong sense of being slightly out of phase with the world. Autism. A simple word. A seismic truth. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is very pleasing to see that the long-touted Coffs Harbour artificial reef has finally arrived and been deployed in 28m of water offshore, south and east, of Sawtell. Standing 12m tall, the twin 15-metre, 50-tonne square steel structures are placed approximately 560m apart and will, in a surprisingly short […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I RECENTLY saw a notice advising that a dear friend, Mrs Shirley Whackett, had passed away. For many years Shirley volunteered at the Woolgoolga Retirement Village and Seagulls Day Care Centre, which gave daily respite for aged and disabled people in the vast Woolgoolga area. Shirley helped with many craft […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in reply to Peter Dingle (Enough of the virtue signalling, Bellingen Council, NOTA, 24.7.26). When did teachers, nurses, essential service workers and others who can’t afford a $1 million mortgage become “minority and activist groups”? As someone who had the good fortune to buy a home in the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE silence from Labor and the so-called feminists on Prime Minister Albanese’s appearance on the Deep Bush podcast has been deafening with Labor MPs seemingly condoning their boss’s appalling behaviour. If a male from the Opposition had made the same comments, the outrage from the Left party would have been […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I DISPUTE the Letter to the Editor submitted by Mark Hardy (Coffs CBD has a critical lack of parking, NOTA, 24/07/26). The CBD area of Coffs Harbour is a dead zone for the majority of Coffs Harbour shoppers already, and now it is suggested that we pay for a big […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE future of the Coffs Harbour CBD hangs in the balance, and without immediate, strategic action on parking and traffic congestion, we risk watching our local business district completely wither away. The primary issue plaguing our town centre is the critical lack of parking. The continued choking of vehicular traffic […]
DEAR News Of The Area, DURING the week my husband, Con, was admitted to Coffs Harbour Hospital with a heart problem. He was treated so well by all staff – cleaners, nurses, doctors, specialists, and so on. What professional and humane treatment he received. Con was able to be discharged within two days because of […]
