DEAR News Of The Area, THERE may be no literal devil in our world yet there is never a shortage of people willing to step into the role: to stoke fear, to turn neighbour against neighbour, and to profit from the shadows they cast. And perhaps Jesus never walked this earth, but the role he […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ASHLEY Love’s Letter to the Editor in the Nambucca and Coffs NOTA of 27/2/26 relates to several comments I made in an unpublished Forest & Wood Communities press release that accused anti-forestry activists, like Mr Love, of hypocrisy when it came to their claims that the native timber industry can […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT is the value of Australian citizenship? After the disgraceful performance of Labor, the COALition and One Notion this week I am seriously starting to wonder. There are 34 Australian citizens stuck in a squalid refugee camp in Syria made up of 11 women and 23 of their children. Their […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA now faces a difficult question: what do we do about the Australian women and children still stranded in the Syrian camps? The debate has become so politicised that the basic facts – and the basic humanity – are being lost. Under our Constitution, Australia cannot refuse passports to its […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the NOTA article of 18 February 2026 titled “Forestry organisations promote sustainable management in new report”, Steve Dobbyns, the Chair and Director of Forest and Wood Communities Australia, accused proponents of the Great Koala National Park of “hypocrisy” in telling Australians that plantations would replace native forests. Telling the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent refusal of the Land and Environment Court to acknowledge agricultural polytunnel structures as ‘structures’ requiring development approval, highlights once again the need for urgent State-based planning reforms encompassing all zoned land, including rural lands. While we all recognise the value of the Industry, the current established laws have […]
DEAR News Of The Area, COULD someone from Transport for NSW please confirm when and if the XPT will ever actually run as it used to. Why? I’ll tell you We live in the Urunga area and for 20 years we’ve caught the XPT from Urunga to Sydney twice a year to catch up with […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WELCOME the opportunity for the community to have a say on the Council’s draft proposal to require a permit for the removal of trees in non-rural areas. Good civic design that benefits humans is design that benefits all life. Nature is our life support system and biodiversity is essential […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN the years since the Global Financial Crisis, one contradiction has quietly persisted at the heart of modern economic culture – a contradiction so glaring that it should unsettle anyone who still believes our systems reward contribution and punish harm. We shame the unemployed. We mock them, dismiss them, and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, Regarding the NOTA article “Local talks energy solutions” (13 February edition): I applaud Mr Simshauser’s suggestions to Council regarding energy storage and solar generation. However, Energy-from-waste (EfW) incinerators should not be promoted as a green solution to our waste problems. EfW incinerators do not make clean energy. They are the […]
