DEAR News Of The Area, I write in response to Cherylle Stone’s letter ‘Nothing responsible about it’ in NOTA on 26 June 2025. She states that offshore wind development ”has the potential to seriously deplete and further distress the ocean, our main already overburdened heat and carbon sink”. Depleting the ocean implies diminishing its quantity, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE concurrent use of the terms “responsible” and “offshore wind farm development” in Australian waters is oxymoronic. There is nothing responsible in developing something offshore that costs twice as much as a similar development onshore, will take twice as long to get up and running and has the potential to […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MidCoast Council’s Community Conversations have been, understandably, affected by the recent devastating flooding, and the clean-up effort that ensues. Originally, the Tea Gardens Community Conversations were to be held back in late May, and have since been rescheduled for Tuesday 29 July. In the wake of a few erroneous postings, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA has long supplied energy and manufactured products to the world. We can protect this tradition by updating. Local companies have already moved into cleaner production and we already supply more than 40% of our National Electricity Market with clean energy. At independent industry think tank Beyond Zero Emissions, we […]
DEAR News of the Area, I dispute John Blackbourn’s opinion piece entitled “Super stabbing”. He argues that the proposed plan to increase taxes on superannuation balances of over $3,000,000 is “an attack on poor old retirees” and that these gains are simply the result of inflation. According to the Association for Superannuation Funds Australia, in […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE this during National Reconciliation Week. This is the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum which finally recognised the First Peoples who have lived here for millennia and meant that they were included in the National Census as people and permitted to vote. It is also the reminder of Mabo. […]
DEAR News Of The Area, MS Sandra Bourke (Letters, NOTA, 15 May) sees a letter from Justin Page, spokesperson for Hunter Jobs Alliance in the previous issue as an attempt to silence the powerful and well-funded organisation Advance Australia for which she is the spokesperson. Both organisations have the right to use every legal means […]
DEAR News Of The Area, LIKE many of us, our attention has been recently focused on America and this has raised our attention on its beliefs and culture. I am worrying over the development of legal processes that have been developed by religious groups that are also trying to maintain a financial foothold in various […]
DEAT News Of The Area, It was interesting to read the reactions to Justin Page’s call to “move forward with proper, fact based assessments of the environmental and economic impacts of the Hunter offshore wind industry”. That does not seem to be an unreasonable suggestion and is aligned with the requirements of the Feasibility Licence […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Australian people as well as the people of Port Stephens have voted in support of the Labor Government and its policies. As for the offshore wind farm, objectors you had your chance to raise legitimate concerns and still have the chance to raise them with a dedicated MP in […]
