DEAR News Of The Area, Climate change is an all encompassing disaster. Proofs have made headlines for 40 years. In right wing circles, particularly the National Party, denial drags on. There’s an audience for rejection, folk who dismiss research as…
DEAR News Of The Area, WITH regard to the recent discussion regarding the native hardwood timber industry, can I suggest that every living organism on the planet has ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to our native forests. In…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW Land and Environment Court found on Monday that the harvest planner who signed off the harvest plans which decided what trees could be felled in Braemar and Myrtle State Forests was not accountable…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to ask what has happened to the Coffs Coast. Have you had a good look lately? Roundabouts are an absolute disgrace. Driving into Coffs from the south the roundabout at England’s Road…
SIR Ernest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson are synonymous with Antarctica, as was their ship, Aurora. At 165 ft long, 31 ft wide and 18 ft deep, the 580 tons gross vessel was built for Arctic conditions in Dundee in…
DEAR News Of The Area, RECENTLY I’ve driven Stadium Drive, Coffs Harbour and stopped at the roundabout at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Stadium Drive. The weeds were at least one metre high there and it has become extremely…
DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER my letter to your paper to try and get the Coffs Hospital hydrotherapy pool reopened and then you kindly did a story on this, the response was amazing. Emails by the dozens and the…
DEAR News Of The Area, SO Warren Tindall says he is dismayed by Anne Thompson’s ‘broad generalities’ in relation to multiple-use forestry (NOTA 24/11/23), and takes issue with what he says are ‘dodgy opinions and hearsay’. However he then goes…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the past month, The House of Representatives in Canberra has found time to reflect on the work of Garry Nehl, with an official minute’s silence. But Coffs Harbour and the citizens of the electorate…
DEAR News Of The Area, RECENT news highlighting the purported dangers to the Boambee Creek Estuary due to the presence of certain chemicals in its mangrove areas raises alarms that might be unwarranted. While concerns for environmental health are valid,…