DEAR News Of The Area, IT is heartening to read an article acknowledging the role of the Tea Gardens ferry service (NOTA 27/2/2025). I served as a deckhand and then as a fully certified coxswain on the ferries from 1999 to 2004. The service was initiated by Harry Littler, a retired Manly ferry skipper, in […]

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 […]