DEAR News Of The Area, THE median age of people in Cowper is 47 whilst the median age for Indigenous people in Cowper is 22. Pat Conaghan defending the National’s position against the Voice referendum attempts to silence both the numerous young emerging Indigenous leaders but also the sensible non-Indigenous who share

DEAR News Of The Area, NICE to see a young man questioning inaccuracy in print (Col Nicholson, NOTA 13 April). I too have risen to the occasion to question the same claims made by the Myall River Action Group in 2013. I think it was. Col, you should consider the totality of

DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in response to the Col Nicholson letter in the last edition and in response to Thomas O’Keefe’s excellent article on the dredging of the Myall River. I am able to speak with some authority, having been the chairperson of the Port Stephens and Great

DEAR News Of The Area, I FIND myself struggling to find a middle ground between logging and ecological protection. I have good mates who work in the mill. I treasure books of the old timers with their stories full of character and ingenuity. I've found something we all share on

FOR me the battle against asbestos is personal. I lost my father to asbestos five years ago - 35 years after his exposure to the mineral in his workplace. Some of those he worked alongside have not been impacted. Working in a science lab, the exposure was minimal. So my message is, it

DEAR News Of The Area, FURTHER to Roger Tindale's letter regarding the state of waste management overseen by the Coffs Council. Out here in Woolgoolga we had for many years a Waste Transfer Station manned voluntarily on weekends by local Lions Club members, raising money to go back into the community.