DEAR News Of The Area, THE opinion in your Friday 11 August 2023 issue, titled ‘Aborigines a separate nation?’ evokes a strongest response, impelling me to write for the first time, as other articles have a touch of rationality or…
DEAR News Of The Area, OUR local farmers producing blueberries, cattle, potatoes, dairy milk and products, macadamias, bananas, fruit tree plantations, horticulture, tea-tree plantations, are there for all to see. Most rural people in Australia are now realising the imposition…
DEAR News Of The Area, THE points raised by Dr Hunter a couple of issues ago were well made and necessary. There is one more though, that counts for misinformation and an only slightly hidden agenda. When the arch-conservative white…
DEAR News Of The Area, AS an electric car enthusiast I was delighted to hear that publicly available charging for electric vehicles was to be installed in Booner Street opposite the Benchmark in Hawks Nest and astonished that within a…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN reply to Wayne Duesbury’s letter last week, I ask the question who wrote the Australian Constitution, and who for? It was written by boat people, for boat people. The result was two separate nations.…
DEAR News Of The Area, WE have seen an increase in support for the Great Koala National Park, with the latest being the Coffs Council. We have not seen a definitive map of what will be included and what the…
DEAR News Of The Area, IS this referendum simply a ‘smoke screen’ hiding a future disaster? I have said there are greater issues to be solved – home loan interest rates, electricity (up to 300 percent in ten years), future…
DEAR News Of The Area, I bet you will all be delighted in the news about Victoria Racing planning to ban whips during December! Isn’t that great? I am disgusted to read Gai Waterhouse’s objection to Victoria Racing’s decision to…
SITTING between two impressive headlands, Box Beach is one of the most beautiful little beaches along our coastline. Protected from the howling westerly winds that we experience at this time of the year, Boxy is certainly worth a visit. For…
DEAR News Of The Area, ‘Working for a Dream’, (NOTA p3, 28 July 2023) was such an inspiring and positive story. How wonderful to read about people willing to travel and work for not only a personal income but to…