OPINION: Please find a soft plastics solution!
DEAR News Of The Area, I PUT my red bin out this morning. It has never been so full since we stopped recycling our soft plastics. We have the worm food tub, the green waste tub, the recycle tub and…
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OPINION: Overpopulation Deniers
DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN my late dad was born in 1927, the global population had reached a staggering two billion. It had taken all of human history up until 1800 to reach one billion, and then only another…
OPINION: Our land is our land, our harbour is our harbour
DEAR News Of The Area, I wish to congratulate last issue contributors. I agree with R Tindale that the Council’s “plan is truly visionary – what Coffs residents want at the Jetty foreshore.” Perhaps we need a State Member more…
OPINION: Listen to First Nations people on The Voice to Parliament
DEAR News Of The Area, IT seems like all out bloody war has broken out with the National party executive announcing their opposition to ‘the Voice to Parliament’. Divisions are occurring within the National party on a personal and State…
OPINION: Is speed camera on Myall Street warranted?
DEAR News Of The Area, A regular visitor to Myall Street, Tea Gardens, is an unmarked white sedan with a ‘Radar Speed Check’ placard on the roof. One day there was one on each side of the road. The hours…
OPINION: Are we worthy of Eco-Destination credentials?
DEAR News Of The Area, ASHLEY Love and Charlie England’s letters in NOTA 25/11/11 regarding the pending destruction of Grandpa’s Scrub, a 0.5ha remnant of unique Lowland Rainforest on the edge of the Bypass alignment reveals the irony and double…
Council’s jetty foreshores plan is “truly visionary”
DEAR News Of The Area, Here is my open letter to Gurmesh Singh MP. Dear Mr Singh, I fully support the vision plan for the jetty foreshores as proposed by the City Of Coffs Harbour Council and recently published in…
OPINION: Don’t use rate payers’ money to fund propaganda
DEAR News Of The Area, AT the last Council election, none of the candidates now sitting in Council Chambers gave any indication that they opposed the harbour foreshores development. Now we have the majority of Councillors not only opposing it,…
OPINION: Who profits most?
DEAR News Of The Area, I SEE the debate between the Mayor and our local MP is heating up. Pro-development with commercial at the forefront represents profit for the Government and developers. Development with community recreation at the forefront represents…
OPINION: Think of the Mackays Road Rainforest as a house
DEAR News Of The Area, THANKS to the NOTA for highlighting the need to save this unique piece of our environment. I note that Transport for NSW says it may try to remove only part of it and divert the…