DEAR News Of The Area, IN recent years, there has been a concerning trend observed in Labor-led state governments in Australia - the locking up of productive state forests. These forests, which could be utilised for sustainable timber harvesting – alongside healthy and productive pastimes such as hunting, fishing, prospecting and

DEAR News Of The Area, AS a resident of Port Stephens, I am writing to express my dismay at the lack of adequate signage for visitors to our facilities and natural wonders, especially on the road approaches and at the location of entrances to the Tomaree Summit Walk and the Tomaree

DEAR News Of The Area, I’VE recently retired to Tea Gardens after a 45-year career in power generation and wholesale distribution. With an engineering background, I understand the technical challenges to decarbonise our electricity system with far more, and vastly distributed inputs, than we currently have (i.e. renewables).

DEAR News Of The Area, WITH all the discussion, and controversy, about celebrating Australia Day on 26 January each year it is interesting to note that the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed on January 1,1901, not 26 January 1788. The proclamation, declaring the establishment of the Commonwealth, was issued by Queen

IN both life and business it is a good idea to know where we are going. From where I sit, it looks like our country is going global. One of those indicators is the Australian motor vehicle industry, which sadly is no more. Only a few years ago we had

DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to your recent publication of a letter from Leigh Shears,’Hunter Offshore Wind Farm brings prosperity’. Leigh Shears makes a compassionate argument in support for this project. However, the argument being prosecuted by Leigh Shears on behalf of the union movement appears to

ON behalf of the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association (HNTGPA) Management Committee (MCC), welcome to the new year. We trust everyone is enjoying a fantastic summer break, enjoying our Myall River, stunning beaches, and parks. Firstly, congratulations to our newly elected Management Committee members: Vice President Michele Winn, Secretary Sherrie

DEAR News Of The Area, THE ideal concept of Australia Day is that it is a day of unity and harmony that celebrates our land and the best of our culture. It follows that the date chosen for this celebration needs to be free of any connections to disunity, disharmony, division

DEAR News Of The Area, THIS year is the 75th Anniversay of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), established by the UN General Assembly on 9 December 1948, ratified by members including Australia in 1949, and coming into effect in 1951. Naturally

DEAR News Of The Area, In response to Wayne Duesbury’s recent letter on climate change I would suggest that most argument on the topic and man's contribution to it is largely governed by one's political affiliation rather than science, but this letter is not about that. He is correct in stating that