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 […]
Letter to the Editor: Local Member’s response to Treasurer
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 […]
Peace
Letter to the Editor: Constructive positivity required
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, […]
Letter to the Editor: We are all in this together
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 […]
Legal Hypothetical: How much is just enough?
BETTY has two sons, Matthew and Daniel. She makes a will and sadly passes-away just a few days’ later. The will appoints Matthew as the executor. Daniel receives a lump sum legacy of $300,000 and Matthew receives the rest of the estate. When Daniel discovers that the estate is worth $3.5 million, he obtains legal […]
‘On the couch’ with Jasminda
DEAR Jasminda, I WAS scrolling through the local community page on the weekend and came across a cheeky post. The post didn’t raise an eyebrow, but what did was the pile-on from adults hating on this young person. It seems strange that people over a certain age would stoop this low. Why are people so […]
World Conflicts
Letter to the Editor: Spectacular fail
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 […]