DEAR Jasminda, Real tree or fake? Kids are nagging me for a real one, but I have a tree on the mezzanine that I can just drag down and decorate. Katherine E. Dear Katherine, I don’t want to alarm you, but do you realise we are heading towards the pointy end of Christmas? With just […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT has been a failure of government through its complacency in allowing evil to insidiously evolve within our communities that has now put our way of life persistently under threat from deranged ideologies and malicious activists that have proliferated in the absence of strong and rational decision making. This current […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT is always front of mind to reach out to family and my friends after a shock. I remember, as many of us do, when we saw planes fly into skyscrapers almost 25 years ago. Our world changed. Last Sunday my country changed. Many Australians were needlessly killed. People died […]
DEAR Jasminda, MY husband’s Netflix viewing history shows an abnormal amount of True Crime shows, serial killer series, and murder mysteries. Should I be worried? Petra L. Dear Petra, For some strange reason, many people like having the living daylights scared out of them for relaxation. I’m not one of them, and it sounds as […]
TIMMY wakes on Christmas morning, rubs his eyes and stumbles downstairs to the Christmas tree. He is overjoyed to find three presents, bearing a special stamp, stating that they are “Shipped from the North Pole”. “Thank you, Santa!” he exclaims. When Timmy’s brother and sister join him, they begin unboxing their Christmas gifts. His sister […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA has just hit a historic milestone: renewables have overtaken fossil fuels for the first time. This isn’t a blip – it’s the acceleration of an energy transition that is now economically unstoppable. Solar, wind, and battery storage are dominating new investment globally, and Australia is finally reflecting that reality. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE the Greens have long been accused of putting ideology before pragmatism in our federal political sphere, the recent behaviour of the Nationals and their Coalition partners in scuttling progress towards ‘Net zero’, illustrates just how far the conservatives are prepared to go to hold up Australia’s energy transition and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, A NUMBER of correspondents to these pages are of the opinion that so-called ‘renewables’ are the cheapest form of energy. They’re technically wrong; energy from the wind and sun is actually free. It’s the superstructure that supports this generation that is costing Australians billions of dollars. We don’t actually know […]
