DEAR News Of The Area, ON Wednesday 23 July at 3.00 pm a group of us gathered outside the office of Michael Kemp MP in Kempsey to welcome and support KoaLaMan deliver a letter to Mr Kemp. KoaLaMan is walking from Coffs Harbour to see the Premier in Sydney and is delivering letters to local […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE today not to question the existence of common sense, but to mourn its absence – particularly in the curious case of the police car parked within the dragons’ teeth of our local high school zone, on Boundary Street. Commonly an out of ‘school time’ raceway for bikes and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Mid North Coast is no stranger to tough times, but the weather is becoming more extreme and harder to live with. In just a few years, our region has faced devastating bushfires and record-breaking floods. The recent floods are another hit to our region, hurting our people, our livestock, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MOUNT Coramba (within Orara East and Lower Bucca State Forests) is a sacred place for the Garlambirla and the Garby Elders groups and surrounding clans, all connected across our Gumbaynggirr Nation with priceless and irreplaceable creation and increase values embedded within this beautiful ancient, healthy and intact Country. All of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN NOTA on 27 June 2025 our local federal Member Mr Pat Conaghan wrote a very critical condemnation of the Treasurer’s proposed summit meeting with employers, unions, government policy authorities and representatives from the broader Australian public. The Treasurer, Jim Chalmers’, agenda for this summit is for “modernising our economy […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE the Member for Cowper’s recent letter is critical of the Treasurer’s Press Club speech, his own Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor has been cast aside by the Coalition leader. Having seen the National Press Club address by Treasurer Chalmers I gained the feeling that he is looking for reform, with […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is good to see Pat Conaghan, Member for Cowper, writing in the public forum of a local newspaper, instead of the subsidised propaganda in advertisements and our letter boxes. In doing this, he can be debated, rated, baited, deflated, liked or hated. In everything he says about Labor plans, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MEMBER for Cowper Pat Conaghan must have been watching a different speech at the National Press Club by Dr Jim Chalmers, the Treasurer, to the one that I viewed. His letter to your paper asserting “meaningless platitudes” and “uncomfortable contradictions” by the Treasurer may well be a more accurate description […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE greatest strategy employed by weak leaders is the art of distraction. While this week’s MAGA focus has been on the US’s “spectacular” bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel’s genocidal annihilation of Palestine continues. While our PM’s support for the highly questionable US action was sadly predictable, any justification must […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE twin severe weather events of Cyclone Alfred and the following intense low pressure system have caused loss, turmoil and disruption in the lives of thousands of people in the east of Australia. In many places, mud is still to be cleaned up and people are grieving while also trying […]
