DEAR News Of The Area, I SEE the debate between the Mayor and our local MP is heating up. Pro-development with commercial at the forefront represents profit for the Government and developers. Development with community recreation at the forefront represents profit for foreshore visitors, local and tourists alike. Back when Mat Singleton ‘resigned’,

DEAR News Of The Area, THANKS to the NOTA for highlighting the need to save this unique piece of our environment. I note that Transport for NSW says it may try to remove only part of it and divert the creek. Hmm, sounds ok right? Nope. This piece is like a

DEAR News Of The Area, CATH Fowler’s derision of Mayor Amos’ community plan for the Jetty Foreshores in last week’s NOTA misses the point entirely. The proposal is not about resolution of detail but about addressing the big question which has always bedevilled the foreshore debate: should that priceless harbour-side real

DEAR News Of The Area, A STORY we keep on hearing is that Australia needs to keep exporting coal to keep the economy going and another story is that renewables are more costly and unreliable. These stories are not true but the millionaire miners want us to believe these stories. We

DEAR News Of The Area, IN the 11 November edition of this paper the Mayor placed a double page spread on what he termed a "community plan" for the Jetty Foreshores. The motion that was passed by councillors to spend $20,000 of ratepayers money stated to "inform the community of these

DEAR News Of The Area, THE plan for the Jetty Foreshores published in last Friday's News Of The Area is a remarkable turn-around from all previous proposals. Bringing the road closer to the railway line creates parking opportunities on the beach side and using railway carriages reminds us of the Jetty's

DEAR News Of The Area, THERE’S a small patch of White Booyong Lowland Subtropical Rainforest growing on what was Mackays farm at the end of Mackays Road. This had been saved by the family ever since they settled the area. Some of these trees would be 200 to 800 years old.

DEAR News Of The Area, I SAW Gurmesh Singh in the NSW Parliament (online) raving on about the Jetty Foreshore scheme your paper published last week on the centre spread. It showed a great resident and Council-supported proposal. Gurmesh was critical of the published presentation. He wants his own way with the money grabbing

DEAR News Of The Area, Z Koenigseder (NOTA 11 November) is very concerned about the impost of Australia’s methane pledge on Australian cattle and sheep farmers. In fact, well before the methane pledge, the Australian red meat industry, proactively set a target to be carbon neutral by 2030. Far from being “a

DEAR News Of The Area, WITH greatest respect to your correspondent (KJ Mitchell, NOTA November 18), I think that all of the predictions about climate change are happening. The temperature of the planet continues to rise and extreme weather events have increased in intensity and frequency. I would ask your correspondent which