DEAR News Of The Area,
THE Mid North Coast is no stranger to tough times, but the weather is becoming more extreme and harder to live with.
In just a few years, our region has faced devastating bushfires and record-breaking floods.
The recent floods are another hit to our region, hurting our people, our livestock, and our economy. We can all feel it, the climate is changing.
And we, in rural and regional communities, are feeling it more.
Across the Mid North Coast, people have shown extraordinary strength during the floods.
Neighbours wading through floodwaters to help each other.
Local businesses donating goods and time.
But alongside this, there lingers growing exhaustion and helplessness about where to next.
We can no longer just wait until the next disaster, lurching from one crisis to the next.
Our communities need long-term planning and investment that recognises what our region is facing and will keep facing.
From our coasts to our hinterlands, and farms to our main streets, now is the time to come together. United to shape local, practical solutions that will protect this region and what we value.
History won’t ask if we knew.
But, it will ask what we did, together.
Regards,
Jake LITTLE,
Mid North Coast.
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