DEAR News Of The Area, CATH Fowler’s derision of Mayor Amos’ community plan for the Jetty Foreshores in last week’s NOTA misses the point entirely. The proposal is not about resolution of detail but about addressing the big question which…
DEAR News Of The Area, A STORY we keep on hearing is that Australia needs to keep exporting coal to keep the economy going and another story is that renewables are more costly and unreliable. These stories are not true…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the 11 November edition of this paper the Mayor placed a double page spread on what he termed a “community plan” for the Jetty Foreshores. The motion that was passed by councillors to spend…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE plan for the Jetty Foreshores published in last Friday’s News Of The Area is a remarkable turn-around from all previous proposals. Bringing the road closer to the railway line creates parking opportunities on the…
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE’S a small patch of White Booyong Lowland Subtropical Rainforest growing on what was Mackays farm at the end of Mackays Road. This had been saved by the family ever since they settled the area.…
DEAR News Of The Area, I SAW Gurmesh Singh in the NSW Parliament (online) raving on about the Jetty Foreshore scheme your paper published last week on the centre spread. It showed a great resident and Council-supported proposal. Gurmesh was…
DEAR News Of The Area, Z Koenigseder (NOTA 11 November) is very concerned about the impost of Australia’s methane pledge on Australian cattle and sheep farmers. In fact, well before the methane pledge, the Australian red meat industry, proactively set…
DEAR News Of The Area, WITH greatest respect to your correspondent (KJ Mitchell, NOTA November 18), I think that all of the predictions about climate change are happening. The temperature of the planet continues to rise and extreme weather events…
DEAR News Of The Area, 27 years ago I stood head to toe with the then RTA Project Engineer on the edge of a recently discovered 20m diameter patch of the endangered and very rare Scented Acronychia (Anacronychia littoralis) near…
THE recent consecration of the Myall Masonic Lodge in Tea Gardens started some old memories returning. The Civic Hall used to be referred to as the Masonic Hall as the Lodge was on the first floor. The Temple was dedicated…