DEAR News Of The Area, THE article ‘EDF:Offshore wind won’t go ahead if environmental impact too great’ paints a rosy, albeit delusional picture of the community’s push to get a better outcome from the Commonwealth Government’s consultative processes on its…
DEAR News Of The Area, TRY to imagine you have just left work or the shopping centre or wherever and your car has been stolen. Maybe it’s the only car you or the family own. Maybe you are a single…
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM writing to voice my opposition to the planned offshore wind farm in the water off Port Stephens. I am staggered that the government believes the community was adequately consulted about this. Very limited…
DEAR News Of the Area, THE current Federal Government and the expert panel do not explain that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI) already have a voice. Their voice is the one we all have when we vote under our…
DEAR News Of The Area, MAY I present rejoinders for the ten points outlined in a recent mailing that refers to website www.oneandfree.au for more information. “The Voice is legally risky”. The vast majority of constitutional experts say that there…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE impact of the Federal Government’s declared zone for an 1800 sq km offshore wind farm off the coast of Port Stephens will destroy a community that thrives on tourism. The wind farms will have…
DEAR News Of The Area, JACINTA Nampijinpa-Price’s comments, that colonialism has not had a negative impact upon Indigenous people, do not surprise, but disgust me. This type of argument is similar to the formula used in the denial campaigns against…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN regards to the proposed Voice referendum, it is easy to underestimate the possible benefits of the three proposed changes to the Constitution. The benefits of being listened to might feel insubstantial, until you put…
DEAR News Of The Area, AT the beginning of this year, support for the Voice to Parliament was over 60 percent, and the majority of Australians accepted that the Voice is a simple idea that will work to improve the…
DEAR News of the Area ON winning the election in March this year the NSW Labor Government, instead of establishing the Great Koala National Park, erected the barricades for another four years of koala wars. This happened without Labor recognising…