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 […]
AS is common for many people at this time of year, Jack and Jill make a new year’s resolution to “get their house in order” in terms of their estate planning. They see a solicitor specialising in this field and are advised that the traditional estate planning package consists of three separate documents, being a […]
DEAR Jasminda, There has been a lot of angst about people setting up their cabanas on beaches lately. A good friend of mine thinks they ruin the beach, but we got one for Christmas which makes going to the beach with her a bit uncomfortable. How do I handle this? Karen Q. Ah, summer […]
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 […]
