DEAR News Of The Area, IT was good to read that the Council representatives recently in Hawks Nest agreed that the recent rains causing more water to flow down the eastern channel had scoured the sand build up. A number of writers have suggested that the eastern tidal flow that was

DEAR News Of The Area RECENT letter writer Kim Moseley is very uninformed in relation to the cost of nuclear energy. Let’s say that the seven proposed nuclear reactors cost the Government $15 billion each - that works out to about $105 billion. In the GenCost report the total cost of renewables

DEAR News Of The Area, LAST week my granddaughters brought out their new Australian version of Monopoly for the first time. It was not long for us to get down to the base line. Friendly relationships turned quickly into competition and selfishness. Cooperation went out the door. I was the banker,

THE weather has cleared and just in time for the July school holidays, and the Mid North Coast is primed for an epic fishing adventure. The Hastings River is bursting with luderick with some anglers reeling in whoppers exceeding a kilo last weekend. The break walls and coal wall are prime

DEAR News Of The Area, DID you know that one 100-year-old eucalypt stores as much carbon as 270 ten-year-old trees? That saving forests is the most practical, rapid, economical and effective means for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in the immediate future and will continue to sequester carbon into the long-term

DEAR News Of The Area, OUR Federal parliamentary representative in the Electorate of Lyne, Dr David Gillespie, publishes a front-page advertisement in your paper every week disparaging the Federal Government’s proposed offshore wind farms. He has spoken at meetings arranged by an organisation called ‘Reckless Renewables’ who oppose onshore and offshore

DEAR News Of The Area, THE has been a lot of discussion locally about the overall impact of offshore wind turbines on the NSW coast. The regulatory framework for offshore wind projects in Australian waters was established by the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Act 2021. That Act was legislated in November 2021 by the

GROWING up in scenic Bonny Hills, Luke Hadfield’s educational journey began in North Haven, followed by high school in Port Macquarie, where he completed his studies in 2011. The very next year, demonstrating an early commitment to public service, an eighteen-year-old Luke ran as an ungrouped independent candidate in the

DEAR News Of The Area, BY now you would be sharing with us the disappointment that the Government has decided not to support our emergency accommodation project. Let me say, our community has responded with the strongest disappointment I have seen. This also is sad as our volunteers have spent years

SOME recent heavy trading in US government bonds immediately caught international attention. It turns out that China has dumped the largest ever parcel of US bonds to the value of $74 billion US. Further research has shown that it has been strategically unloading its largest ever investment in US government bonds