DEAR News Of The Area, I am not convinced by Mr Robert Harding's (Letters, 5 December 2024) attempt to downplay the risks and consequences of nuclear accidents caused by sudden offsite power outages. The reality is that loss of external power to a nuclear reactor is a serious problem, which

DEAR News Of The Area, YOUR 6 December issue carries details regarding the Valla Urban Growth Area (VUGA) which has been on the cards for several years now. The Stage 1 Masterplan as shown has a serious flaw in that there appears to be a single point of entry/exit being Red

DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S déjà vu again as a new Mayor with her cohorts takes over the council and totally disregards 69 percent of the people of Coffs Harbour. Surely there should be some accountability. Surely the council should go back to basics and consider a long-term aspect for future

DEAR News Of The Area, MANY thanks to Theo Hazelgrove of Community at 3 for his letter in last week's newspaper reminding us of the importance of supporting local business. I have another thought that some of you may want to embrace. Each month I go to the bank and get

DEAR News Of The Area, THE 176,000 hectare Great Koala National Park that was first committed to by the current Environment Minister, Penny Sharpe, and former Leader of the Opposition, Luke Foley, in 2014/15, is home to at least one fifth of the koala population of NSW. Within it there are currently

DEAR News Of The Area, AS a community independent candidate for Cowper, I feel compelled to respond to the concerning article (NOTA November 29) regarding the imminent crisis facing our regional universities due to Ministerial Direction (Policy MD107). This Policy has led to delays in visa processing and decline in student numbers

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