DEAR News Of The Area, INDIGENOUS Australians have advocated for a long time for constitutional recognition, after over two centuries of dispossession, harm and serious inequities. Following extensive regional dialogues, the Uluru statement from the heart was created by Indigenous people from first nations across the country. This gifts Australians the way

DEAR News Of The Area, SINCE when did communists help anyone, especially with housing? The Australian Communist Party and their communist friends from CUDL couldn’t solve your crossword. Why are we suddenly friends with a world scale failed marxist idea that has killed millions? The same group are a big push behind the Yes

DEAR News Of The Area, THE penny has finally dropped! I have wondered why the word ‘racist’ has been used in this referendum, particularly towards the No camp. If we all believe in constitutional recognition for Indigenous people and we all want to see better outcomes for disadvantaged Indigenous communities, then

BEAVER was built by Edward and William Chowne on the Clarence River for Captain Wiseman and launched in early March 1849. After the final fit-out the vessel measured 75 feet long, 19 feet wide and 9 feet deep and was rigged as a two-topsail schooner. Described as being ‘a fine

DEAR News Of The Area, IN a recent NOTA letters to the editor section, I bemoaned the NSW Labor Government's apparent commitment to four more years of koala wars over the proposed Great Koala National Park. In last Tuesday's budget the NSW Government provided a massive opportunity to avoid that pain. It

DEAR News Of The Area, WITH respect to the article by Mr Cox on 29 September 2023, if the assertion is correct then why has every Government or reputable research publication cited that the gap has not closed despite large funds spent in the name of First Nations. I have seen

DEAR News Of The Area, I AM grateful for the explanation by Shayne Fuller of the NIAA. I had no idea as to its function. I am a republican at heart but I voted NO in the last referendum and am voting NO in this one too for basically the same reasons.

DEAR News Of The Area, IN NOTA of September 28, your correspondent makes the claim that Aboriginal people have no need of the proposed Voice because they already have one in the form of the NIAA (National Indigenous Australians Agency). Your readers may like to know that this claim originated

DEAR News Of The Area, WOULDN’T you think it to have been wise for the government to have conducted a community survey or poll before we had this wind farm foisted upon us. The wind farm has been unjustifiably forced on to our region after it was outright rejected by the

DEAR News Of The Area, RECENT editions have included a number of articles decrying the Federal Government's recent declaration that an area suitable for the development of offshore wind farms exists in the area off the NSW coast around Port Stephens, and that a process is due to commence to ascertain