DEAR News Of The Area, WITH reference to the story in last week’s NOTA, ‘Footpath funding not forthcoming,’ the lack of commitment to footpaths highlights the utter shortsightedness of council. Not only do footpaths allow elderly people and people with strollers to walk on something other than the road, they encourage

DEAR News Of The Area, IAN Hogbin was “spot on” with his letter criticising the State Government for locking out at all times the public from using the small recreation area across the road from Jetty High School. The undercover basketball court recently built had proved very popular with families and other

DEAR News Of The Area, WHILE it is good to see forestry industry advocates entering the debate on the future integrity and sustainability of native forest logging, the misleading claims and generalisations are disappointing and won’t go anywhere towards resolving any so-called ‘forest wars’. The people I know who are opposing

DEAR News Of The Area, FIRST of all Mike Pearce regarding your letter (‘Let's replace the Big Banana with the Big Tissue Box’, 2 February Edition), yes we all have reason to whinge now and then, but can you honestly say you have not noticed the state of neglect on our

DEAR News Of The Area, IN News Of The Area on Feb 8 2024 Steven Low quoted some very salient facts in relation to the effectiveness of wind farms. According to published data I have read the total installed potential capacity of wind farms in Australia is 9.1 GW. As of at 03:00

DEAR News Of The Area, AFTER many recent contributions by vested interests on the subject of the “sustainability” of the logging of (and the extraction of biomass from) our native forests, it is now time to bring a factual foundation to the matter. What is sustainable? Put simply, being “sustainable” is the

DEAR News Of The Area, I WAS not amongst those in Canberra on Tuesday 6 February protesting Chris Bowen’s proposal to place hundreds of wind turbines on thousands of square kilometres of largely untouched Australian marine habitat. However, I fully support their message that offshore wind is not needed in

IN my opinion piece published on 28 December titled Taxing Thoughts, I offered some basic thoughts about our taxation system. I asked the question: Is there a better and fairer way of raising revenue for the purpose of running and developing our nation? On the last day of January this year

DEAR News Of The Area, IT IS amazing how fast our current Mayor and Councillors have learnt the bad habits of the previous Council. Most of us will remember how the previous Mayor and four Councillors totally disregarded a huge petition and widespread public opposition to building the Council’s new headquarters above

DEAR News Of The Area, WE have followed the ‘fortunes’ of the Jetty Foreshores lands for many years, always wondering why nobody mentions the likely effects of sea level rise and increased cyclone activity in the not-too-distant future. Now, we, and many others, are wondering why our State Government has refused a