DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in response to Peter Williams (NOTA, 03/07/2026). First of all, One Nation has not replaced the ‘alliance’ Mr Williams speaks of. There is no alliance, and it has not replaced a stand-alone Labor Government. There have certainly been a substantial number of defectors from the Liberal and National […]
DEAR News Of The Area, The media narrative suggesting regional people oppose renewable energy projects when the data unarguably shows the opposite is now the subject of a published academic paper (“Growing discontent on data centres as farmers fear renewable rollout repeat, The Land, 7/6). Poll after poll after poll, from Porter Novelli, 89 Degrees […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to Jake Little’s letter of 3 July (Port Macquarie NOTA, 3/7/2026) in which he calls for readers to name their top three community priorities for Port Macquarie, I offer one – a new aquatic centre. I’ve been swimming at the Olympic pool in Port Macquarie since my early […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THERE are minds in this world still hiding in the shadows of their own brilliance, still believing that the way they think is a mistake, a malfunction, a deviation from the path everyone else seems to walk so easily. This is for them. For the ones who were told they […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in response to the published letter from Peter Williams (NOTA, 03/07/2026). There are a number of factual errors in Mr Williams’ letter which I believe should not go uncorrected. There is NO Teals, Greens, Labor, socialist alliance in Federal parliament. The Labor government governs in the House of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, DURING the debacle of Pauline Hanson’s speech at the Press Club (17/6/2026), one is left to ask: “What can we do to counter the possibility of this woman becoming Prime Minister?” While this possibility may be an anathema to many of us, we must learn from Trump’s victory in the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, PEOPLE are asking themselves: why work in an economy that’s not working for me? The cost of basic services – food, housing, electricity, healthcare, childcare, education – has all gone up. Yet our pay packet remains the same! All after the era of privatisation when we were promised efficiency and […]
DEAR Newspapers Of The Area, THE letter by Rodney Fox in a recent NOTA made a significant observation with regards not only to the topic of “chemtrails” but to conspiracy fantasies in general. “Attempts to belittle or ridicule those seeking answers are unlikely to be effective when many people have already informed themselves on the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to acknowledge that I do not have a Bachelor of Marine and Antarctic Science (with a major in Oceans, Ice, and Climate) or Earth and Environmental Sciences, or Oceanography. I can and do read regularly about climate change and the effects it is having on our Earth. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN all the housing crisis talk by Federal or State governments, the biggest elephant in the room is unhosted Airbnbs, specifically entire-home Short Term Rental Accommodation (STRA). Homes that should be available for first-home buyers, normal buyers and long-term renters are instead being bought up to be used as Airbnbs […]
