DEAR News Of The Area, AS an Australian taxpayer living in Coffs Harbour I find it pretty horrendous to hear our voted-in politicians flippantly talking about using our taxes to influence their local communities at election time. On the recent…
VALE the Hon. Stephen Bromhead on your recent passing and condolences to your family. Mr Bromhead was the Myall Lakes state electorate member for twelve years and served his electorate with distinction and passion. Mr Bromhead entered state politics just…
SO – the Jetty Foreshores. Why is it so important? Because this decision is now or never. We all want the area improved, but what is being proposed by the State Government takes it in the wrong direction and it…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT would seem there is not to be a huge retail future for the CBD. Sad to say it is my preferred shopping precinct. The availability for parking spots are diminishing and with the advent…
DEAR News Of The Area, LOGGING has recently begun in sections of Orara East State Forest in Karangi by Forestry Corp NSW. Given the fines and warnings that FC NSW has copped over logging activities in other State Forests, concern…
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE have been wallabies living in the bushland on Macauleys Headland for as long as I have been living here, that is at least 46 years. These marsupials regularly ventured as far south as the…
DEAR News of The Area, THE final margin in the 2019 state election doesn’t tell the entire Coffs Harbour story. Over 10,000 voters exhausted their ballot by only numbering one. Half of Labor’s voters effectively put the Nationals over the…
DEAR News Of The Area, DES Foley (NOTA 10.3.23) is right to ask the question: “what sort of a country are we leaving to our grandchildren?”. But rather than focus on climate change, which poses an existential threat to the…
DEAR News of the Area, AUSTRALIA is very fortunate to have preferential voting as it means you don’t risk wasting your vote when you vote for an independent or small party candidate – your second and later preferences mean your…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Greens vision for a sustainable food system (as outlined in NOTA, March 10) should be welcomed as a positive approach to ultimately ending food waste in NSW. Another big issue though – here on…