DEAR News Of The Area, DEEP Creek is more than a line on a map – it’s a living corridor. Its paperbarks, casuarinas, she-oaks and reedbeds filter water, soften floods, and host an orchestra of feathered residents. Some of those birds are now teetering on the edge. Protecting them isn’t just about saving rare species; […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AS a Councillor in his third term the issues that I am challenged over more than any other is the issue of Four Wheel Drives on our beaches. Thank you to Peter Sobey and James Sakker for bringing this issue into the public arena. There is an old Chinese curse, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I am writing to you as a Bellingen Shire Councillor, former Mayor, Environmental Scientist and Geography Teacher who has been involved in the campaign for the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) for the last 10 years. It’s been nearly two and a half years since the state election where the […]
IN response to Peter Sobey’s letter of 8 August, the Schlacer study he refers to compared beaches that have 250,000 cars per year with no car access beaches. Not surprisingly that volume of cars did have a negative environmental impact. Beach 4WD use in Nambucca Shire is a tiny fraction of that number. Anyone familiar […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE social media ban set to begin in December is a welcome and much-needed step to reduce the growing impact of digital distractions on children’s wellbeing. But while it marks progress, it’s only part of the solution. We also need to look closely at school excursions, where mobile phone use […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHEN Barnaby Joyce spruiked his private member’s bill to abolish net zero by 2050, I couldn’t understand how he could claim that net zero was why pensioners are having to pay high power bills. He implied that removing a target 25 years away would somehow have the immediate effect of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to make a few points with reference to MP Michael Kemp’s response to a letter delivered to his office on Wednesday 23 July by KoaLa Man (Peter Elzer). The event was reported in the Macleay Argus (online Friday, 25 July and in print Saturday, 2 August). On […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHY do we allow people to drive on our beaches? A recent meta-study by University of the Sunshine Coast Professor of Marine Science, Thomas Schlacher, confirms that driving 4WD vehicles on beaches has serious environmental impacts. The vast majority of 4WD users follow the rules and do their best to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, HARRY Creamer’s dream of a foreign funded high-speed rail for Australia (25 July) sounds like another eye-wateringly, never-ending, expensive AUKUS scheme. Australia simply doesn’t have the population to support high-speed rail projects. Even if most city-to-city travel was taken by rail, there still won’t be enough usage to pay for […]
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 […]
