DEAR News Of The Area, A NEW report, Banking Climate Failure, by not-for-profit, Market Forces, reveals Australia’s big four banks have used smoke and mirrors to continue pouring billions of dollars into fossil fuel expansion. Despite claiming to support the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and net zero emissions by

DEAR News Of The Area, MY friend Helene lives in Vienna, Austria. Now that she is retired, she volunteers weekly at the Vienna Zoo. Her favorite enclosure is filled with Aussie animals – koalas and kangaroos. She has a brother living in Coffs Harbour, and every time she cares for our wonderful

DEAR News Of The Area, A question for Peter Weyling (NOTA 26/5/23). Peter, do you honestly think that all Australians, regardless of culture, colour or whatever, are the same? I am a white (perhaps more sort of pinkish), blue-eyed Aussie who speaks only two languages (good and bad English).

ABOUT a month ago, I was contacted by ABC radio and then the commercial TV stations as, apparently, I am the last bulk-billing GP in the electorate of Cowper on the Mid North Coast of NSW. I run my own clinic in Bellingen and have been struggling to continue to

DEAR News Of The Area, THERE is no gold in the pot, just a great big black hole at the end of that ugly green building in Gordon Street. The ratepayers were not considered or even given a voice. Sad to say they are the ones who will be financing the ugly and

DEAR News Of The Area, IT was disappointing to read our federal member's comments on The Voice (NOTA 2/06). While dismissing high court justice Ian Harrison's email as emotional, in the next breath he pinpointed Aboriginal violence as the major problem in Darwin. Dog whistle? Violence has its roots in

DEAR Jasminda, When washing my 18-year-old and 20-year-old's clothes, I frequently come across other items that neither own. These items have been left at our place by their friends. Last week I did eight loads of washing, which seems ridiculous. How can I encourage these kids to take their clothes with

INTERESTING but maybe potentially alarming numbers came across my desk this week. I think they will be of particular interest to all the oldies who are living in the Mid Coast Region of NSW. If you are aged between 77 years and 93 years, being born in the sixteen years of

DEAR News Of The Area, I AM a reluctant ‘Letters to the Editor’ writer, but recent comments about ‘The Voice’ have shaken me into action. To suggest it entrenches racism is rubbish. We have systematically and consistently put First Nations people on a lower social status since 1788. Surely I

DEAR News Of The Area, WAYNE Duesbury's comments in his Letter to the Editor on 12 May 2023 need a response. I differ from his opinion in that the 1967 Referendum removed `race' from the Constitution. Far from it. It allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted in