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

DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE read with interest your correspondents’ comments on the proposed nuclear power initiative championed by the Federal Opposition. They all seem quite focused on the legitimacy of the Coalition implementing the plan. Mr Dutton states our first nuclear power plant can be operating by the mid 2030s.

DEAR News Of The Area, AT long last, Mr Dutton has revealed (ABC TV, 19 June) that his nuclear proposals are not commercially supported by private enterprise companies. Instead, the Opposition has opted for a socialistic approach, whereby taxpayers cough up 100 percent of the cost for seven wholly government-owned and

DEAR News Of The Area, WHAT an insightful photo of the ‘Shortcut’ published in the last issue of NOTA. IT clearly shows that nature is attempting to block off the dredged canal to the east of the breakwall while creating a new channel (pursuant to the laws of stream theory) to the

DEAR NOTA, IT seems that major decisions in our city are bound to be forced through against popular opinion. Not so long ago the decision to invest a huge amount of money in a new civic centre was repeatedly forced through by casting vote despite active community protests. Surely Council’s ability to

DEAR News Of The Area, GOOD to see the LNP has declared "game on" with respect to the nuclear power generation stakes. After winning at the next toss of the coin, the LNP's first bowlers will need to dismiss the present ban on nuclear energy for this country. This will

DEAR News Of The Area, MY family and I have been residents of Camden Head for 50 years. The Headland, including the Pilot Station Lookout, was once a well maintained pristine vista, accessible to not only residents but many from the community and buses of tourists visiting particularly for the view. This

DEAR News Of The Area, OUR Federal Nationals member, Pat Conaghan, delivered his Budget Newsletter to my letterbox this morning. In it he talks about how the COALition will deliver “more affordable reliable energy”. However, his lack of logic is very disappointing and doesn’t inspire confidence that the LNP know what

DEMOGRAPHERS have presented a report showing that people are on the move again, leaving regional areas to return to the capital cities due to a “decline in liveability”. Moving out bush was a decision I made in 1959 and have never regretted. I left the leafy waterfront domain of Sydney’s Middle