DEAR News Of The Area, BOWRAVILLE sawmill owner Matt Dyer’s recent reported comments (NOTA 24/11/23), as written by your correspondent Ned Cowie, regarding National Parks, fires and the Black Summer holocaust, demand a response. Mr. Dyer is quoted as recommending…
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, WHEN I wrote about finding the middle ground to logging issues in April the cracks were showing. Now there are full blown holes gaping in our community. I don’t want to lose our forests in…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE people of Port Stephens will not be dictated to by North Shore MP Zali Steggall (NOTA, 23 Nov 2023). We will not be silenced by her disgraceful attempt to amend the Electoral Act to…
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been reading the News Of The Area articles on the proposed wind farm in the Post Stephens area with great interest. Some of the coverage has been pro but most has been anti.…
A CONDITION of fragile bones which fracture easily, over one million people in Australia have osteoporosis. There is a fracture every three minutes. One in two women and one in three men over 60 will have an osteoporotic fracture. There…
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE is no doubt that we are all very well aware that we are living through a housing crisis. And if we accept that we are ‘all’ aware, then this includes all of us from…
LIVING with depression as a naturally happy and optimistic person is a unique and challenging combination. While the common perception of depression is one of constant misery, this isn’t always the case. Many people experience happiness and optimism alongside their…
DEAR News Of The Area, READING Ann Thompson’s letter, ‘In support of multi use forests’, I was dismayed by her broad generalities, so close to the guff printed by the defensive Forest Corporation. Nothing in her remarks withstands scrutiny. She…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW Premier’s flying visit to Coffs Harbour last Friday week with two Ministers in tow the day before Bob Brown’s visit to the region to promote an anti-logging and Great Koala National Park campaign…