Barnaby Joyce MP at an anti-wind farm rally in Port Stephens. Photo: Doug Connor.
MAVERICK MP Barnaby Joyce will join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party. After weeks of speculation, the New England MP and former deputy prime minister has confirmed he would move to the far-right party, after previously representing the Nationals. He will sit in the House of Representatives for the rest of the parliamentary term as a […]
A packed house at Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club.
A packed house at Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club. The Nambucca Glass and Aluminum team at the Stig Family Golf Day. Wizard of Oz fancy dress at the Stig Family Charity Golf Day. THE Stig Family Charity Golf Day held at Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club returns on Sunday, 4 January 2026 and registrations are […]
THE NSW Government is rewriting the framework that determines road management in NSW, announcing a new road recategorisation system this week. The move comes in an attempt to provide local councils with certainty over who will manage and maintain different roads, allowing for more targeted investment where it is most needed. Road recategorisation is the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE the Greens have long been accused of putting ideology before pragmatism in our federal political sphere, the recent behaviour of the Nationals and their Coalition partners in scuttling progress towards ‘Net zero’, illustrates just how far the conservatives are prepared to go to hold up Australia’s energy transition and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, A NUMBER of correspondents to these pages are of the opinion that so-called ‘renewables’ are the cheapest form of energy. They’re technically wrong; energy from the wind and sun is actually free. It’s the superstructure that supports this generation that is costing Australians billions of dollars. We don’t actually know […]
Macksville Lions Club Youth of the Year Chair Brian Hemsworth with the five contestants (L-R) Dee-Jae, Caitlyn, Grace, Emily and Amelia. Photo: supplied.
FOLLOWING a masterful demonstration of leadership and communication, Macksville High School student Grace was named the winner of the 2025 Macksville Lions Club Youth of the Year competition. Held on Tuesday, 2 December at the Macksville Ex-Services Club, the event drew a crowd of proud family members, school staff, and Lions Club members who gathered […]
Oxley MP Michael Kemp will run again in 2027. Photo: Michael Kemp MP FB.
MICHAEL Kemp has been unanimously re-endorsed as the National Party’s candidate for the Oxley electorate in the 2027 state election. The incumbent MP again received the support of his party at the Nationals’ Oxley division State Electorate Council meeting on Saturday, 6 December. Mr Kemp said he was humbled by the confidence placed in him […]
PUBLIC concern is rising in Valla Beach following the NSW Government’s October announcement that a parcel of land near Langsford Way and Anderson Park, formerly owned by the Department of Education, has been identified as a potential site for more than 160 homes under the state’s Building Homes for NSW initiative. The NSW Department of […]
The FCNSW report says the hardwood division lost $32 million. Photo: Mark Graham.
GREENS MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson says that Forestry Corporation NSW’s (FCNSW) 2024-25 Annual Report, recently tabled in the NSW Parliament, reveals that the state has spent $76 million over the last three years to keep the native forest logging division in business. Ms Higginson said that having to pay to destroy […]
