DEAR News Of The Area, TIMBER industry reps are once again trotting out the usual spurious figures and questionable claims about the cost and threat of the Great Koala National Park to the timber industry; just as they did in 2019 with their Ernst and Young study which used a worst

DEAR News Of The Area, WELL the silly season has arrived and I don't mean Christmas. I refer to the insane happenings of last week and the total idiocy behind them. First we have the story of a very happy magpie living with his loving family with all the freedom he wants.

DEAR News Of The Area, THE fatuous debate about potential nuclear power options for Australia cannot be taken seriously. There is no credible evidence supporting any such proposal either economically or environmentally in the Australian context. The most recent Royal Commission, in 2016 in South Australia, into the nuclear fuel cycle concluded as

DEAR News Of The Area, REMEMBER as a child, making a list of presents you wanted for Christmas? Or maybe your children or grandchildren are in the process of making such a list now. As adults, we could make a Christmas wish list too – naming ways to make our society

IN 2014 the NSW Government announced plans to purchase new carriages to replace ageing intercity and regional trains. This new class of train was given the name of Mariyung and was slated to take over from what we knew as XPTs and Explorers. In the meanwhile, the short distance T

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to your article on the cost of the Great Koala National Park. I would like to remind you that in February 2022 the Federal Government declared the koala an "endangered species" in NSW, QLD and the ACT. The Australian Koala Foundation shows that our region of

DEAR News Of The Area, IN the early hours of 7 November my wife had to call an ambulance for me as I was unconscious and she could not revive me. Three ambulances arrived shortly. In the meantime the operator was calmly telling my wife what to do. As I was being

DEAR News Of The Area, CAN we have a conversation about a disturbing subject? Can we talk about the naming of the Boolumbahtee river? Many people know it as the Manning River. When Robert Dawson named the river after William Manning he was one of the main backers of the Australian Agricultural

I WOULD like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As we approach the end of the year and families head off on holidays, I would just like to remind everyone to be safe, make sure you stop, revive, survive if you are taking on long trips. To