DEAR News Of The Area, I AM a reluctant ‘Letters to the Editor’ writer, but recent comments about ‘The Voice’ have shaken me into action. To suggest it entrenches racism is rubbish. We have systematically and consistently put First Nations…
DEAR News Of The Area, WAYNE Duesbury’s comments in his Letter to the Editor on 12 May 2023 need a response. I differ from his opinion in that the 1967 Referendum removed `race’ from the Constitution. Far from it. It…
DEAR News Of The Area, HOW revealing (‘Perrottet government plan to end native forest logging in NSW was blocked by Nationals’, 25 May 2023) that Peter Hannan reports in the Guardian newspaper that the National Party blocked a Liberal Party…
DEAR News Of The Area, SO a representative group of our Indigenous brothers and sisters, after long deliberations and under the perception that our nation is finally fair dinkum about Reconciliation, have asked that as a starting point they could…
ABOUT a month ago, I was contacted by ABC radio and then the commercial TV stations as, apparently, I am the last bulk-billing GP in the electorate of Cowper on the Mid North Coast of NSW. I run my own…
IT was interesting to read earlier this month that Australia’s largest gold miner, Newcrest, has received a takeover offer from the USA’s largest gold miner, Newmont. If the offer is accepted by shareholders and government approval follows, the joint company…
HELLO, MAY is almost over and lots to report so please come along to the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association’s next General Meeting on Monday 19 June 2023 starting 6.30pm at the Tea Gardens Hotel in the Dolphin Room.…
DEAR News Of The Area, NEIL Mercer (NOTA 26 May) claims that middle income earners were forgotten in the 2023 Federal Budget, but is that claim true? Many middle income earners will benefit from improved access to bulk billing doctors,…
Son-in-law makes will claim PETER and Dianne have been married for 30 years. Unfortunately, Dianne unexpectedly passes away, aged 50. When Dianne’s mother passes away fifteen years later, she leaves the whole of her $2 million estate to her sole…
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is really sad to see letters like that from Wayne Duesbury published on 12 May. There is just so much ignorance on display. The Voice came from Aboriginal people through hundreds of meetings of…