DEAR News Of The Area, IF Mr Dave Williamson (Letters 25 April) is telling us he’s “had a gutful” of a collection of ideologies that include an increased awareness of racial and social injustice, and an intolerance of prejudice and discrimination, plus an empathetic attitude towards disadvantaged minorities, then so be it. We all know […]
Letter to the Editor: The great koala ‘con’
DEAR News Of The Area, MUCH has been made in Australia of the plight of one of its iconic animals, the koala. While we fully support the protection of Australian native flora and fauna, we do not support the current process of political activists misrepresenting our native environment to promote hidden agendas that are not […]
Letter to the Editor: Koala situation only part of the forestry issue
THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David Lindenmayer’s ‘The Forest Wars’, an […]