DEAR News Of The Area, I’D just like to offer a correction to Louise Cranny’s recent letter on the growth rates of trees and their potential carbon storage. As approximately half of the dry weight of a tree is carbon, its capacity to draw in carbon via photosynthesis is indeed important

DEAR News Of The Area, EMINENT scientists have estimated $25 billion of Australian coastal property is under threat from erosion caused by climate change fueled storm surges and they are advocating a staged retreat from development in coastal hazard zones. Professor David Kennedy has been quoted saying that Australians will

DEAR News Of The Area, THE Commonwealth Bank may have promised it won't close any regional branches before July 2027. This followed Treasurer Jim Chalmers making a pre-election promise with Australian Banking Association chief executive Anna Bligh, who like him was a Labor Party politician from Queensland. But how much confidence can we

MY first trip by air was with Butler Airways on a Douglas DC3 from Mascot to Burren Junction. A tail dragger aircraft of WW2 vintage to a bush, gravel surfaced airstrip. I loved it. Many years later I obtained a private pilot’s license at Tamworth after doing the bookwork part