DEAR News Of The Area, WHY is the new library at the Council’s Yarrila building charging $1 for a printed colour copy? Librarians are sending the public to places to print where they are charging under half that price. I…
DEAR News Of The Area, ON 25 June 2024 Port Stephens Council adopted their Coastal Management Plan which identified concerns about the impact of beach erosion on Shoal Bay Road. They mentioned that irrespective of the present day risk given…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to commend the factual information that Mr Higgs has written into NOTA regarding nuclear power during this year. His information is relevant and much more than that telegraphed by newspapers and commercial…
DEAR News Of The Area, ON 30 July I attended an informal ‘Meet the Mayoral Candidates’ at the Laurieton United Services Club. At this meeting there were only two candidates, Adam Roberts and Mark Hornshaw. I later discovered that the…
DEAR News Of The Area, MY wife Becky and I recently attended a “meet the candidates” meeting at Port Bowling Club. The format of the meeting allowed us to get a good idea of the policies and personalities involved from…
DEAR News Of The Area, EVERYONE knows and loves the koala but here in our Mid North Coast forests we have an animal that rivals even the koala for cuteness. The greater glider is about the size of a cat…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Northern Territory election result, a decisive win for the Country Liberal Party, was fought largely on the issue of crime, particularly youth crime. More than most, being the NT, this means crime by Indigenous…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE local government election this Saturday has raised a couple of issues for me more generally. Some candidates continue to hide their political affiliations and claim to be “independent”. This is not transparent. Some of…
DEAR News Of The Area, FOR the third time in a fortnight, the Hunter Valley has experienced a damaging earthquake near Muswellbrook, cutting power to more than 2,750 homes. The 4.5 magnitude quake, at 5:58 am on Saturday 7 September,…
PART of the case against anything nuclear is the question of what to do with the waste. Australia’s only nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney is involved in medical research and the production of substances used in medicine. It…