DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in response to your article, “Hanson loses appeal over ‘seriously offensive’ tweet”, (NOTA, 29/7/26, Page 2). Senator Pauline Hanson’s so-called “seriously offensive and racist comment” was made in reply to Senator Merheen Faruqi’s extraordinary and disgraceful statement on the day our late Queen died. Ms Faruqi had described […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN mid-September, I had the opportunity to attend the Local Community Services Association (LCSA) NSW Conference in Wollongong. The LCSA represents 175 Neighbourhood and Community Centres in NSW. All these centres are locally owned and managed and represent the largest network of local, place-based community development organisations in NSW. One […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MOST parents have, and probably still do, wish that their children would enter university to become a doctor, nurse, lawyer or financial genius. I have been a doctor for 50 years and witnessed the paradigm shifts with dismay, and sadly conclude I would not advise General Medical Practice in the […]
DEAR Jasminda, My favourite footy team has made it into the grand final for the first time in 25 years. Months ago I RSVPd that I would attend a very important family birthday celebration on the same weekend. Now I’m torn about what to do. This is the event of a lifetime. Evan P. DEAR […]
AT 95, Mavis has no intention of slowing down. She still tends her prize-winning roses, knows every neighbour’s business and has lived in her home for 54 years. Mavis’ only income is the aged pension and her home is by far her largest asset. Her nephew, Darren, regularly helps with shopping, appointments and the occasional […]
DEAR News Of The Area, A CONVERSATION with an Uber driver on my way to Brisbane Airport got me thinking about where Australia is heading. We talked about youth crime, housing, cost-of-living pressures and immigration. I came away wondering whether our political debate focuses too much on who to blame and not enough on what […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IN May this year, the Port Macquarie Hastings Council repealed its Climate Change Response Policy. The timing could hardly have been worse: it was followed, almost immediately, by an exceptionally warm winter here, and at the same time as an extraordinary summer in the northern hemisphere. France, England, other parts […]
DEAR News Of The Area, OUT of the halls of power, a familiar madness rose in a creature who mistook his reflection for revelation. He treated the spark of consciousness as a crown, the flicker of wit as wisdom, the noise of his ego as the voice of truth. And in that confusion, many followed […]
NEW battle lines are being drawn for the next Federal Election, which is due by 20 May, 2028. Many of us might be thinking that 20 months is too early to offer policies for scrutiny, but the Government seems to be desperate to change direction away from its present economic malaise. Surprisingly they have chosen […]
