DEAR News Of The Area, WITH the recent major fires just north of Tea Gardens and along the Pacific Highway, a few things have come to light that the community really ought to take to heart. Namely, our actual preparedness for real and dire emergencies is not at the level it needs to be. I, […]
Dear News Of The Area, I would like to personally thank several members of the local community for their support during the recent Nerong bushfires. On Saturday 30 January, when things looked their most dire, we had multiple crews out defending the twin towns of Tea Gardens Hawks Nest and two RFS Community Liaison Officers […]
DEAR News Of The Area HAPPY New Year and a great Australia Day to everyone in the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest community, and visitors. I would like to provide an update on the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association following our first Management Committee meeting for the year, held last week. The new 2026 Committee […]
Some of the donated gifts that were distributed to local familiers.
DEAR News Of The Area, The Myall Community Art and Craft Centre would like to say a BIG thank you to all members of our centre and the public who donated [gifts] so generously to make Christmas a happy one for lots of people. Thanks of course to the Salvation Army for all their work […]
Cr O’Keefe with newly promoted Stroud SES Deputy Unit Commander Sandy Snape at the site of the sod-turning in Stroud.
DEAR News Of The Area, ANOTHER year has come to an end, and it has been, once again, a big one for us all. I would like to reflect on the last few weeks for a moment. After serious rains and floods in autumn, summer has brought an unsettling return to bushfire season with the […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE regarding the story titled “The secret star maps of moths”, published in NOTA on 4 December 2025. After reading this delightfully written article I will now look at moths in a completely different way. Such tiny and very beautiful creatures that flutter almost silently into our homes. The […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I AM an older parent and have accepted the fact that my children and wife come first in regards to IT requirements and usage. It is only natural that, like a musical instrument, the more practice means the more expertise. However, why may it be that when I look for […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I REFER to the recent letter from Charles Hemming, in which he links the increasing amount of renewable energy in the grid to what he terms as the likely demise of the Tomago Aluminium Smelter. This assertion is not true. All of the smelter’s electrical power is currently supplied by […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE likely demise of the Tomago Aluminium facility without government subsidy is due to rising electricity costs with the increasing proportion of renewables (actually weather-dependent intermittents) in the electricity grid. The mantra: ‘renewables are the cheapest form of energy’ is a delusion of the energy-illiterates. Sunbeams and breezes are there […]
DEAR News Of The Area, LAST Wednesday, I attended the ‘drop-in’ community consultation at Hawks Nest Community Hall for the proposed Sanderling Avenue beachfront development, located between Hawks Nest Golf Club and Bennetts Beach (Lot 1, DP 1234229). This is the same development that was the subject of the 2021 Four Corners episode ‘Obeid Inc.’ […]
