DEAR News Of The Area, ON October 9, 2023, Anglican Minister Mark Leach attended a protest in Sydney near the Cathedral about the Middle East. The lone representative of his ethnicity, he was chased away by protesters threatening his life. But in the true Australian spirit Mark didn’t give up. In the following months, as […]
SHOCKED and grieving, she laid her ruined wedding dress on the muddied, mangled pile of treasured belongings. Emergency volunteers bore witness, absorbing her heartbreak while valiantly hosing stinking mud and river slime from her waterlogged home. Unforgiving torrents of floodwaters, fuelled by ‘atmospheric rivers’, left mountains of precious possessions disintegrating in landfill. Tragically, lives and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to a letter written by Mr Warren Tindall and published in last week’s NOTA regarding a warning that sea levels will rise by 1.5 metres in the next 25 years. Really? Warren, you can’t seriously believe that rubbish, can you? Are you sure you didn’t transpose the decimal […]
DEAR News Of The Area, HERE is a question for the experts. All state forests were developed to be logged. They are all mostly single species plantations, as unnatural as any forest can be for wildlife and the environment, particularly if left to grow unlogged forever. If they were serious about this they would log […]
DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS to the many groups and individuals who fought for so many years to secure the Great Koala National Park. Congratulations to the Minns government ministers who finally decided to make good on their election promise. They have chosen to protect more than 170,000 hectares as habitat for koalas and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, PETER Dingle asks where are the “so-called green organisations” in relation to the environmental destruction posed by the Robbins Island wind project? (NOTA 5/9/25). I asked a similar question some months ago, regarding the environmental destruction resulting from renewable energy projects, in Queensland and Kosciusko National Park. I guess that […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER years of lobbying, peaceful protest, and dedicated vigilance by thousands of ordinary citizens, the long-anticipated announcement for the declaration of the Great Koala National Park has arrived at last. Since the Minns Government took office, there has been wide-spread degradation of valuable habitat and ecological services, as well as […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent letter from Michael Kemp MP exemplifies why so many people have lost faith with the major political parties in Australia, particularly the LNP. It seems Mr Kemp is relying on the politics of grievance as his main argument as he seeks to divide our society into us and […]
WENDY makes enquiries with her superannuation fund regarding the payment of her funds in the event that she unexpectedly passes away. Wendy is advised that because she is not in a relationship and has no children, that she should execute a non-binding death benefit nomination. She also has the option of making a binding nomination […]
DEAR Jasminda, My new girlfriend chats incessantly as soon as she wakes. I prefer to ease into the day. How can I get our morning routines in sync? Karl B. Dear Karl, I’m with you on this one. My husband’s mouth seems to wake up before the rest of him. From the moment his eyelids […]
