DEAR News Of The Area, AS someone born in Burma (now Myanmar) I understand the value of democracy in a way that many people fortunate enough to grow up in a democratic country may never experience. I spent 15 years of my life involved in the struggle for democracy and basic human rights under a […]
DEAR News Of The Area, TO all who find meaning in small things, the ones who pause for a trembling leaf, who feel the hush inside a sunbeam, who notice the quiet kindnesses that slip past the rest of the world. I’ve come to understand something about you, about us. Those who see beauty in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE blueberry industry has garnered the headlines of late for a number of concerning reasons. There are ongoing and growing community concerns about neurotoxic insecticide and chemical runoff polluting our local waterways and potential impacts on sensitive macroinvertebrates, fish life and water quality. Substances such as isocycloseram, which has been […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MICHAEL Jones’s letter (‘Climate change should top list of voter concerns’, Coffs Coast News Of The Area, 14/8/26) says that climate change should top the list of voter concerns, and so it should. We should be concerned with the billions, if not trillions, of dollars being wasted on the rush […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE fall of the Apartheid regime in South Africa was 32 years ago, before the majority of Australians alive today started school. The struggle to end the racist system of Apartheid (literally meaning separate development) has important lessons to the world today. My father was born in South Africa and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THIS letter in response to Peter Williams (‘Looking for a Party that will put people first’, Coffs Coast NOTA, 7/8/26). Peter, thank you for your response. I am well aware that I won’t have much influence on your thinking, but there are issues with your assertions that need to be […]
DEAR News Of The Area, LIKE many people across our region, I’ve been following the recent media coverage regarding allegations of migrant worker exploitation in the Coffs Coast area. While these reports have understandably generated strong emotions and concern, I want to encourage our community to approach this issue with care, compassion, and a commitment […]
I doubt that many in the Coffs and Nambucca community are surprised at the recent 4 Corners expose of modern slavery that is putting food on our plates, particularly in our local berry industry. I am also sure that most in the community are horrified and want it to stop, as we have been hearing […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is very pleasing to see that the long-touted Coffs Harbour artificial reef has finally arrived and been deployed in 28m of water offshore, south and east, of Sawtell. Standing 12m tall, the twin 15-metre, 50-tonne square steel structures are placed approximately 560m apart and will, in a surprisingly short […]
DEAR News Of The Area, DONALD Trump’s Israeli-inspired war in the Middle East has given us all just a small insight into how a localised conflict can impact the Global economy and create chaos and hardship in people’s lives all over the world. It has also revealed just how our defence alliances inadvertently drag us […]
