DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE a feeling that the chickens are coming home to roost in Australia. Free money, enormous debt. Excluding our older generation who have experienced harder times, we are becoming fat and lazy, having…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONE answer is to make readily available more of the vast quantity of our home grown vegetables and fruit which never reach the supermarket shelves, because it is not the ideal shape, size or…
DEAR News Of The Area, I’M another who’s concerned about the so-called ‘Independents’ popping up to run for federal parliament. One surefire way of telling that they’re likely to be party-aligned, is when they sidestep the two big elephants…
AT this month’s Council meeting I called on all Federal election candidates to support the Australian Local Government Association’s (ALGA) ‘Don’t Leave Local Communities Behind’ national funding initiative, which based on independent review, would contribute $6.46 billion per annum…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent article in News Of The Area about rebuilding the old WW1 War Memorial failed to engender much local interest. From my discussion with people, the main point of contention is that the…
OVER the past few weeks, we have made several important submissions to the State Government on planning and marine protection issues. Of these, the most significant was in relation to the draft Hunter Regional Plan 2041. This plan proposes…
WHY grow kale (Brassica oleracea)? I mean sure it’s nutrient dense, reliable for ten months of the year and bombproof… Kale is jammed full of vitamins and minerals. It’s a prolific plant which is always what you want in…
DEAR News Of The Area, ONCE again our regular self-proclaimed BS exposer W Duesbury, (‘Teal Independents’, p25, Coffs Coast NOTA, Opinion and Letters, 11 March Edition) has uncovered the supposed dark heart of local independent politics. Apparently an organisation…
DEAR News Of The Area, MY name is Karl Attenborough and I am the Greens candidate for Lyne in the forthcoming Federal Election. On 15 March 2022, I attended a town meeting at Bulahdelah regarding the imminent closure of…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE recently read an original account of Australia and the First World War! And what an extraordinary account it was. Never in all my years have I been so personally drawn into the…