DEAR News Of The Area, THE Cowper results show some interesting voting patterns. Across the board Caz Heise got a 3.5 percent increase in primary vote from 2022 while Pat Conaghan had a 0.8 percent decline in primaries. Unfortunately for the independent the gain was mainly won from Labor and the Greens losses. Some booths […]
DEAR News Of The Area, NOW that the Federal Election is finally over (thank God) it seems a few are grieving the result, and as a consequence their current thinking, as well as their memories, lack clarity. Mr Williamson in his letter of 9 May 2025 laments the fact that we have elected a lying […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE we may congratulate Pat [Conaghan] and his Nationals team on their election win, and thank the other candidates – especially Independent Caz Heise and her hard working team, for putting their hands up and at least giving us a choice – it might be worth reflecting on how our […]
DEAR News Of The Area, OUR country has chosen to die. Unrealised by most people, Australia is suffering from a terminal disease called Renewables-Only Net Zero, and we have just refused the only treatment that may have cured it. We now continue a slow but inevitable decline towards a debilitating death, a decline which to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WROTE to NOTA some time ago urging all candidates in the Federal election to address the scourge of racism as a fundamental principle of our democracy and our ongoing national commitment to universal human rights. Sadly, this was not apparent in the just completed campaign. On the face of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, OUR valued democracy has become a ‘corporatocracy’ under the flawed stewardship of the major parties. However, with the election on 3 May, we, the people, have a chance to take back control. The links between the Nationals and the mining industry are clear, with favour-buying donations flowing to the party, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
