DEAR News of the Area, All wars are tragic, inevitably causing unnecessary death, destruction, chaos and misery, at great financial and social cost. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits war, calling for member states to: “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political […]
DEAR News Of The Area, This is a response to Ian Roberts, Fingal Bay (Letter to the Editor, 19 February). Mr Roberts claims there was “no political mandate” for offshore wind. The record tells a very different story: it was opposition groups, not Labor candidates, who turned offshore wind into a federal election issue. Social […]
DEAR News Of The Area, IT’S somewhat laughable that Robina Badger (Letter to the Editor, 19 February) felt “stunned” by community uproar about an offshore power station (wind farm). There was no political mandate: I’ve lived for 36 years in this coastal strip without hearing one serious election candidate grandly promising to take power generation […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in response to Kathy Brown’s (5 February) and Robina Badger’s (19 February) letters. I am a 50-year resident of Port Stephens and as Secretary of The No Offshore Turbines Port Stephens (NotPS) group I have been at the forefront of the community effort to protect the integrity of […]
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 […]
