DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE it is good to see forestry industry advocates entering the debate on the future integrity and sustainability of native forest logging, the misleading claims and generalisations are disappointing and won’t go anywhere towards resolving…
DEAR News Of The Area, FIRST of all Mike Pearce regarding your letter (‘Let’s replace the Big Banana with the Big Tissue Box’, 2 February Edition), yes we all have reason to whinge now and then, but can you honestly…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN News Of The Area on Feb 8 2024 Steven Low quoted some very salient facts in relation to the effectiveness of wind farms. According to published data I have read the total installed potential…
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER many recent contributions by vested interests on the subject of the “sustainability” of the logging of (and the extraction of biomass from) our native forests, it is now time to bring a factual foundation…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS not amongst those in Canberra on Tuesday 6 February protesting Chris Bowen’s proposal to place hundreds of wind turbines on thousands of square kilometres of largely untouched Australian marine habitat. However, I fully…
IN my opinion piece published on 28 December titled Taxing Thoughts, I offered some basic thoughts about our taxation system. I asked the question: Is there a better and fairer way of raising revenue for the purpose of running and…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT IS amazing how fast our current Mayor and Councillors have learnt the bad habits of the previous Council. Most of us will remember how the previous Mayor and four Councillors totally disregarded a huge…
DEAR News Of The Area, WE have followed the ‘fortunes’ of the Jetty Foreshores lands for many years, always wondering why nobody mentions the likely effects of sea level rise and increased cyclone activity in the not-too-distant future. Now, we,…
I’M advised that many local properties change hands in the months of December and January each year. Assuming this is the case, new buyers will be looking to purchase insurance for their property at this time of the year. It…
DEAR News Of The Area, The letter on 25 January 2024, ‘Discussion getting lost on power generation’, could equally be headed ‘Never miss an opportunity to plug the totally unjustifiable and uneconomic nuclear’. Two details that upset the letter’s argument:…