DEAR News Of The Area, IF the “Great Koala National Park” is legislated, will it be as devastating as some suggest? In the late 1950s Macksville had a population of about 2000 and relied on industries such as bananas, dairy, saw milling, Midco abattoir and small goods and was supported by five banks. A large […]
DEAR News Of The Area, CONGRATULATIONS to the many groups and individuals who fought for so many years to secure the Great Koala National Park. Congratulations to the Minns government ministers who finally decided to make good on their election promise. They have chosen to protect more than 170,000 hectares as habitat for koalas and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THANK you for publishing the long letter from the Member for Oxley, Michael Kemp, recently. We all now know that he represents the consistent traditions of the Nationals approach to politics. Mr Kemp maintains the practice of using division and negative hyperbole about serious issues, clinging on to discredited traditional […]
DEAR News Of The Area, HERE is a question for the experts. All state forests were developed to be logged. They are all mostly single species plantations, as unnatural as any forest can be for wildlife and the environment, particularly if left to grow unlogged forever. If they were serious about this they would log […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent letter from Michael Kemp MP exemplifies why so many people have lost faith with the major political parties in Australia, particularly the LNP. It seems Mr Kemp is relying on the politics of grievance as his main argument as he seeks to divide our society into us and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THIS Labor government’s environmental policy doesn’t look like it’s being run by those in Macquarie Street, but maybe by rooftop protestors who contribute little to society and inner-city hypocrites who choose mining by consumption of the very products they campaign against. These high-end activists are screaming “koala crisis”, all the […]
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 […]
