DEAR News of the Area, Former Labor politician and greenhouse gas enthusiast Joel Fitzgibbon has taken a job as lobbyist for the Forest Products Association. What possible use is an ex-parliamentarian with personal access to many “mates” within government? The…
DEAR News of the Area, The statements by departing NSW Farmers’ president James Jackson are confusing and contradictory. On the one hand he calls for greater levels of government support for farmers, but also wants government to “get out of…
DEAR News of the Area Good to see the Council fighting on our behalf to have the disputed land at the Jetty handed over to the Coffs community rather than sold to (or “partnered with”) a property developer. For all…
DEAR News Of The Area, HOW lucky are we disabled, fixed low-income residents of Port Stephens LGA to have community newspapers to keep us informed of the wants of councillors, and the community’s needs. First, I refer to a letter…
DEAR News of the Area, PRECIOUS Valla Beach Community Land at 99-101 Ocean View Drive is now destined to become two small house blocks and a laneway for access to the bushland reserve following the Council meeting on Thursday night.…
DEAR News of the Area, I READ with concern Ken Mitchell’s letter, in your edition of 15 July 2022, it is a sceptical and ill-informed denial of the hazards of climate change. I feel sure the leaders of the Pacific…
DEAR News of the Area In your publication dated 15 July, re ‘Kalang Residents Concerned about Logging Expansion’, the article states that the member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said the Kalang River Forest Alliance’s fears are unfounded. He went…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHY, with the Council turnaround, are we even still discussing multi storey development east of the railway line at the Jetty? I thought the way some of the new councillors were speaking prior to being…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to ‘Council, please be the voice of the people!’ (p26, Coffs Coast NOTA, 22 July Edition). Firstly, whether one is for or against the draft Jetty Foreshores development, or historically for or against…
NOT many of us would realise that in 1868 there were only six cottages in Tea Gardens! A map prepared in 1866 by Charles Ogden, an Australian Agricultural Company surveyor, indicates an area at the corner of Witt and Hough…