OPINION: Stage two issues at the Boat Ramp
DEAR News Of The Area, HAVING just gone online to look at the stage two design of the Coffs Harbour Boat Ramp I can just imagine how unhappy the boaties are going to be when it’s complete. For example did…
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OPINION: Waste management in Woolgoolga
DEAR News Of The Area, FURTHER to Roger Tindale’s letter regarding the state of waste management overseen by the Coffs Council. Out here in Woolgoolga we had for many years a Waste Transfer Station manned voluntarily on weekends by local…
Veterinarian et Dr. Kathryn Staldert reminds pet owners to keep a close eye on Easter eggs when pets are around
WITHOUT a doubt, Easter is a time that we all enjoy indulging in the sweeter things – chocolate and hot cross buns! It’s important to remember that these seasonal delights are potentially deadly for our pets. Cocoa contains several compounds…
OPINION: Adrenalin sauce with that pork?
DEAR News Of The Area, BRAVO to the courageous activist who captured footage of pigs writhing and gasping for oxygen in gas chambers in Australian slaughterhouses (ABC TV 7:30, 27 March). Gassing is the common manner in which pigs are…
OPINION: Sesame Street it is not!
DEAR News Of The Area, BROUGHT to you by the letters ‘F’ and ‘U’ and the number 69, Sesame Street it is not! I’ve just got home from seeing ‘Avenue Q’, the CHATS production at the Jetty Memorial Theatre and…
OPINION: Powerful forces out to silence Mark Graham
DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT goes on? ‘Riot Squad perform night-time bail check on ecologist’ (NOTA 31-3-23). Mark Graham, a prominent environment scientist, is barred from speaking about Forestry Corporation on social media and entering State Forests. As the…
OPINION: Mark Graham treatment unacceptable in a democratic society
DEAR News Of The Area, WHY would the Riot Squad be required to do a bail check on Mark Graham at 9.59pm and more to the point, is it the job of the Public Order Riot Squad to check bail…
Nelson Bay vet Dr. Kathryn Staldert reminds pet owners to keep a close eye on Easter eggs when pets are around
WITHOUT a doubt, Easter is a time that we all enjoy indulging in the sweeter things – chocolate and hot cross buns! It’s important to remember that these seasonal delights are potentially deadly for our pets. Cocoa contains several compounds…
OPINION: Christianity is evidence based
DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S Easter time – a time of autumn weather, Easter eggs and holidays. Our word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’. And for Christians, Easter is a holy time. Even if you have no interest in…
OPINION: Time to confront the bigger problem
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in relation to the March 2023 IPCC climate report “survival guide for humanity” final warning. Now that we have everyone’s attention on global warming, it’s time to confront the bigger problem. In a…