DEAR News Of The Area, THE NSW National (Mining) Party has been making a lot of noise lately about “youth crime”. In their quest for relevance they have chosen a campaign against a group that we all have a legitimate right to fear: young people! I blame rock and roll myself but that might be […]

THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David Lindenmayer’s ‘The Forest Wars’, an […]