OUR wellbeing is vital to our health and happiness. It’s shaped by where and how we grow, live, work, play and age. In Port Stephens we’re surrounded by a natural environment that encourages us to enjoy time outdoors, is in…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN answer to Warren Tindall’s question in his letter titled ‘Why are today’s logs so small?’ in the Coffs Coast NOTA (2/2/24), part of the reason that “today’s logs are so small” is that timber…
DEAR News Of The Area, CAN someone please explain how renewable energy systems do not contribute to climate change? It is a fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one type to another, e.g.…
DEAR News Of The Area, I refer to your article last Friday regarding the Jetty Foreshores and Council versus State Government control Here is a photo of how the State Government treats what has always been a public and available…
DEAR News Of The Area, I LIVE in Newville and on Sunday afternoon, 4 February, there was a helicopter which flew quite low over my house several times and landed (without turning off the rotors) in the EJ Biffin fields…
DEAR News Of The Area, CLAIMS by Meryl Swanson MP that there have been delays by the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club Limited (NPSGFC) in providing a set of conditions for presentation to the Hon Chris Bowen MP…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN 2019 the Morrison government, supported by the ALP, legislated stage-three tax cuts, mainly for high income earners, to come into force this year. Meanwhile, post-COVID inflation created a cost-of-living crisis. While the opposition slams…
DEAR News Of The Area, Recently, a retired engineer with 45 years of experience in power generation indicated the difficulty and likely cost of transitioning to renewables. He used the example of replacing the 2GW generating capacity of the retired…
DEAR News Of The Area, TO the Boambee senior citizen who tripped on the footpath (NOTA January 26). Dear Margaret, I hope you have patience. determination and dogmatic hats to put on in order to have your trip hazard fixed…
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:…