DEAR News Of The Area, IT is somewhat unfortunate that Pat Conaghan and David Littleproud have realised, only after nine years of government, that there is a housing crisis and a need to listen. The current housing crisis has not arisen in the last few months. Rather it has been exacerbated

DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA has gone mad. About 60 percent of us living in this area are over 65 and waiting for God. We have seen the best of Australia and it is now all downhill. What a holy mess we are leaving for our grandchildren. We need to put pressure

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week the Sydney Morning Herald ran an investigative series on what went wrong at Barangaroo, Sydney’s biggest urban renewal project to date. It found that over many years the interests of the developer and private investors had taken precedence over the interests of the public.

DEAR News Of The Area, LOCAL issues include a housing shortage, affordability issues and a rental crisis - as well as logging protests. We have evolved from a generation of individual responsibility, that worked, saved and didn't waste, to the absolute reverse. Welfare is now the backbone of society, to the tune

LET’S talk development applications (DAs). This is a really challenging space for every Councillor because with every decision on a contentious DA that comes to Councillors for assessment there are winners and losers. The aspect of being a Councillor that the community probably notices the most is when there’s controversy about

DEAR News Of The Area, At last! A voice of sanity regarding the Civic and Cultural Centre (Yarrila). Thank you, Aloisia Fenyes, I thought I was a voice crying in the wilderness. I have supported the Gordon Street project from the beginning, attracting a great deal of printed vitriol and even

TELLING the incredible stories of Port Stephens and the Myall Coast is what News Of The Area (NOTA) is all about. The independently-owned NOTA has had a presence in the region for decades and is proud to keep locals up to date with the happenings of the area. Now, NOTA is

DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with astonishment Cr Rodger Pryce’s letter in Coffs Coast NOTA on October 7 telling us that the ‘revitalisation’ of the Jetty Foreshores would result in more open space than is currently there at present, in spite of the fact that the plan proposes at

DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS disappointed and concerned to read about the deferral of the redevelopment of the Woolgoolga and Sawtell swimming pools in the Coffs Coast NOTA on 7 October. I actually live near the centre of Coffs Harbour and not in either of these two villages of the

DEAR News Of The Area, THE proposed $5 million Nambucca Library upgrade would fund a reinstated Nambucca Neighbourhood Centre for the next ten years. The $5 million grant monies therefore should set a precedent for community not-for-profit facilities in this area. Reinstating our lapsed neighbourhood centre is another project currently being progressed. In my