DEAR News Of The Area, IF there is anything in this world that is certain, it is change (Cancellation of Australia Day citizenship ceremony is un-Australian, NOTA January 12). Only a few years ago Australia Day was a full-on knees up, with cars decorated with the Australian flag carrying excited young

DEAR News Of The Area, JUST wondering if anyone else was disappointed or dismayed to find out that Coffs Harbour City Council was on the list of NSW local councils holding their Citizenship and Award ceremonies on a day other than Australia Day. I would like to know why the community of

DEAR News Of The Area, IT is unbelievable that the courts have ruled in favour of the continued destruction and clear felling of our old growth native forests! This is despite Australia’s record extinction of our precious native wildlife due to loss of habitat, food source and threats of bushfires, floods

WHILE 2023 began with a focus on Coffs Harbour’s foreshore, climate, costs of living and increasing debate on the referendum in a year that sometimes felt as if it had more downs than ups, the ‘Times Gone By’ column stepped into the past to start the year by focusing on

DEAR News Of The Area, My elderly neighbours, who delight in gardening and supplying others with excess fruit and veggies that they grow, had eighteen of their newly planted hedging plants stolen last week. They had worked so hard to get these little plants in and it was looking so lovely

DEAR News Of The Area, Warren Tindall cites headlines of the past 40 years as "proofs" of an all-encompassing climate change disaster (NOTA 29/12/23). Without further information I assume he is referring to reports of extreme weather events. If that is what he is indeed referring to, that does not constitute

DEAR News Of The Area, IT has been revealed in the media that the City of Coffs Harbour is one of 81 councils (four last year!) across NSW to refuse to conduct Australian citizenship ceremonies and certificates on Australia Day 2024! This act of perfidious, anti-Australian wokeness is a dual insult

DEAR News Of The Area, THANK you Colin McEntyre for your tribute to Garry Nehl. There is insufficient room in this newspaper to list Garry's achievements and parliamentary positions but as our local member back in the eighties and nineties he smoothed many a path for the citizens of Coffs Harbour.

IN response to the remarkably wide-ranging rural community I have been reporting on since I cautiously signed on to write for NOTA last year, I offer many thanks for your actual recognition that a free printed paper is still possible. As a freelance correspondent (not sure I qualify as a journalist)

DEAR News Of The Area, WELL the hottest global summer on record is hanging over us and COP28 participants have had their talk-fest in the UAE discussing what we are going to do to keep rising global temps within 1.5 degrees. While each major Conference of the Parties on Climate Change Policy