DEAR News Of The Area, I WELCOME the recent announcement of a Senate inquiry into offshore wind, thanks to the efforts of Senator Ross Cadell. It is widely known within our community that we have had a lack of consultation…
THE supply of reliable power in Australia has become a political minefield that has provided our major political parties with two clearly different objectives. On one hand the Government has decided that “renewables only” is their way of providing electric…
ANYONE who takes an interest in local history would know exactly what I mean when I say that it is very frustrating when a photograph lands on your desk and you have no idea of its origin. Such is the…
DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN I hear people complain about the cost of living crisis I wonder how many of them take note of the surcharges charged by some businesses? Electronic transactions are convenient, as demonstrated by our usage,…
THE Federal Government’s ‘Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport’ committee’s inquiry report has just been presented after fifteen months of deliberation. The inquiry was chaired by the National Party Senator Matt Canavan. Much of its hearings were held in rural…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT was good to read that the Council representatives recently in Hawks Nest agreed that the recent rains causing more water to flow down the eastern channel had scoured the sand build up. A number…
DEAR News Of The Area RECENT letter writer Kim Moseley is very uninformed in relation to the cost of nuclear energy. Let’s say that the seven proposed nuclear reactors cost the Government $15 billion each – that works out to…
DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week my granddaughters brought out their new Australian version of Monopoly for the first time. It was not long for us to get down to the base line. Friendly relationships turned quickly into competition…
THE weather has cleared and just in time for the July school holidays, and the Mid North Coast is primed for an epic fishing adventure. The Hastings River is bursting with luderick with some anglers reeling in whoppers exceeding a…
DEAR News Of The Area, DID you know that one 100-year-old eucalypt stores as much carbon as 270 ten-year-old trees? That saving forests is the most practical, rapid, economical and effective means for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in…