DEAR News Of The Area, THIS coming federal election is the most important for all Australians present and future, with our debt poised to break $1.2 trillion, and the budget to remain in deficit for the next 40 years. This will be like having a visa card, maxed out, being unable to purchase anything, as […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE I strongly believe that Australia and the world need to act sensibly on climate change, the disappointing reality is that most of the big polluters don’t appear serious about it. India has given 2070 as its target for reaching net zero. China has said 2060, while President Trump has […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IF Mr Dave Williamson (Letters 25 April) is telling us he’s “had a gutful” of a collection of ideologies that include an increased awareness of racial and social injustice, and an intolerance of prejudice and discrimination, plus an empathetic attitude towards disadvantaged minorities, then so be it. We all know […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to respond to the article in NOTA on 21/2/25 titled “Conservationists dispute job loss claims”. The article related to the number of people currently employed in the local timber industry and its supply chain and the effects that the creation of the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) […]
THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David Lindenmayer’s ‘The Forest Wars’, an […]
