DEAR News Of The Area, RESIDENTS of Coffs Harbour should realise that if the State Government sells its foreshore land to a development corporation what we get in the tin will not be what was on the label. Building projects in Coffs are usually monitored by the City Council as the

TRANSPORT for NSW is operating totally against the wishes of Coffs Harbour citizens if they think they can get away with destroying a magnificent, mature forest of trees and shrubs - a natural, green noise barrier to be replaced with bitumen and cement! We value our natural environment and will

ONE issue in particular seems to be the route cause of Australia’s immediate economic failures and from my perspective, nothing is being done in order to eliminate or greatly reduce its effects. I wrote an opinion piece on this issue published in NOTA on 14 September last year titled ‘Size Matters’,

HOW many indeed? This is the number one question I always get asked when giving a lecture. In the vastness of space, there's a place called the Milky Way, and it's not just a chocolate bar! It's actually a huge collection of stars, like a giant city in the sky.

DEAR News Of The Area, IN Letters to the Editor, 30 May 2024, Kennith Higgs, Raymond Terrace, quoted the CSIRO GENCOST Report to discredit the Federal Opposition’s strong support for nuclear energy. GENCOST is inaccurate. It has been widely criticised for claiming that renewables are cheaper than nuclear as a source

ESTABLISHMENT of the butter factory prompted an increased focus on infrastructure. Initially, requests increased for road repairs between Coffs Harbour and outlying areas, while land sales advertisements promoted properties by their distance from the butter factory. Owners of a private road were charging teamsters for its use as a short-cut

DEAR News Of The Area, IN Opinion and letters in last week's NOTA under the heading of ‘Will Jetty Foreshores poll tell us anything’, Peter Simpson speculates on the forthcoming poll to be held in conjunction with Council Elections in September. No one can tell what the outcome of the forthcoming poll

DEAR News Of The Area, RESIDENTS of Coffs Harbour should realise that if the State Government sells its foreshore land to a development corporation what we get in the tin will not be what was on the label. Building projects in Coffs are usually monitored by the City Council as the

DEAR News Of The Area, I PERFORMED recently in the Sea Pictures concert at Nelson Bay Community Centre that was a fundraiser for the Tomaree Cultural Development Group to support their campaign for a performance venue on Tomaree Headland. The concert demonstrated that there was an interest in what we did (we

DEAR News Of The Area, A RECENT article in Renew Economy contained a statement that separate research has determined that the effect on ocean habitats from the development of offshore wind farms is minimal. I draw the Federal Government’s attention to a phenomenon called diel vertical migration which occurs at depths between