ANITA, a foreign citizen, has been living in Australia on a temporary visa and has been unsuccessful in obtaining a long-term visa. Anita meets an elderly Australian widower while volunteering at a neighbourhood community centre. Patrick is 85 years old and has lived alone since his wife died six years earlier. Anita initially visits regularly […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THEIR mothers were young and naive when they left Australia to marry ISIS fighters. They were barely children themselves. Allowing them to live in filth and squalor is a breeding ground for radicalisation, let alone shortening their lives due to malnourishment and disease. They are Australian citizens and above all […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IF Gurmesh Singh is so sure that the proposed residential development of the foreshore will generate funding for a spectacular array of revitalising amenities (NOTA 27 February), could he please pressure the State Government into providing something in the way of a business plan to make these stale assurances something […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT is the value of Australian citizenship? After the disgraceful performance of Labor, the COALition and One Notion this week I am seriously starting to wonder. There are 34 Australian citizens stuck in a squalid refugee camp in Syria made up of 11 women and 23 of their children. Their […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the excellent letter from Greg Hackfath (27 February) regarding the dedication and skill over 40 years of the ocean lifeguard service. Among many positive anecdotes from locals and visitors, I would like to remind you all of the dependence we have on those emergency workers, like the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE may be no literal devil in our world yet there is never a shortage of people willing to step into the role: to stoke fear, to turn neighbour against neighbour, and to profit from the shadows they cast. And perhaps Jesus never walked this earth, but the role he […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ASHLEY Love’s Letter to the Editor in the Nambucca and Coffs NOTA of 27/2/26 relates to several comments I made in an unpublished Forest & Wood Communities press release that accused anti-forestry activists, like Mr Love, of hypocrisy when it came to their claims that the native timber industry can […]
TERRY makes a will, leaving his large estate to his six children subject to some very unusual conditions. His first child only receives his inheritance if she is baptised. His second child only receives her inheritance if she abstains from alcohol consumption for twelve months. His third child only receives his inheritance if he obtains […]
DEAR Jasminda, HOW do we agree on a movie as a family? I’m so sick of scrolling through trying to locate a movie everyone will enjoy. Heather P. Dear Heather, You are right. Trying to find a movie that incorporates everyone’s interests is a nightmare. How is it possible, for example, to find a movie […]
