I’M advised that many local properties change hands in the months of December and January each year. Assuming this is the case, new buyers will be looking to purchase insurance for their property at this time of the year. It makes good management sense to compare insurance policies each year

DEAR News Of The Area, The letter on 25 January 2024, ‘Discussion getting lost on power generation’, could equally be headed ‘Never miss an opportunity to plug the totally unjustifiable and uneconomic nuclear’. Two details that upset the letter’s argument: Liddell's closure is a loss of an unreliable 800 to 1.25 GW, not

OUR wellbeing is vital to our health and happiness. It's shaped by where and how we grow, live, work, play and age. In Port Stephens we’re surrounded by a natural environment that encourages us to enjoy time outdoors, is in proximity to jobs and opportunities and has services and facilities we

DEAR News Of The Area, IN answer to Warren Tindall’s question in his letter titled ‘Why are today’s logs so small?’ in the Coffs Coast NOTA (2/2/24), part of the reason that “today’s logs are so small” is that timber harvesting only occurs in regrowth forests in NSW. Regrowth forests contain

DEAR News Of The Area, CAN someone please explain how renewable energy systems do not contribute to climate change? It is a fact that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be converted from one type to another, e.g. wind energy to electrical energy. It is the energy in the atmosphere that

DEAR News Of The Area, I refer to your article last Friday regarding the Jetty Foreshores and Council versus State Government control/ownership. Here is a photo of how the State Government treats what has always been a public and available to use sports facility. There used to be cricket nets, there has

DEAR News Of The Area, I LIVE in Newville and on Sunday afternoon, 4 February, there was a helicopter which flew quite low over my house several times and landed (without turning off the rotors) in the EJ Biffin fields for about five minutes, then took off again. This went on

DEAR News Of The Area, CLAIMS by Meryl Swanson MP that there have been delays by the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club Limited (NPSGFC) in providing a set of conditions for presentation to the Hon Chris Bowen MP for his consideration when determining the feasibility licences for input to

DEAR News Of The Area, IN 2019 the Morrison government, supported by the ALP, legislated stage-three tax cuts, mainly for high income earners, to come into force this year. Meanwhile, post-COVID inflation created a cost-of-living crisis. While the opposition slams Labor for breaking its promise to implement those tax cuts as they

DEAR News Of The Area, Recently, a retired engineer with 45 years of experience in power generation indicated the difficulty and likely cost of transitioning to renewables. He used the example of replacing the 2GW generating capacity of the retired Liddell Power Plant near Muswellbrook with wind turbines. This is a difficult