ANOTHER week, another long-awaited “legacy sequel” in 28 Years Later, the pseudo-zombie, post-apocalyptic, horror film from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). As the title implies, it has now been 28 years since the “rage virus” was initially unleashed upon the world, causing those exposed to instantaneously become uncontrollably violent. A small group of survivors living […]
THE communities of the MidCoast area have just experienced the worst flood in living memory. Council staff and I are working round the clock to address the widespread damage that this has caused and to seek ongoing support from the State and Federal emergency support agencies. I have been meeting with Ministers and agency heads […]
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 Jasminda, I am going away with a group of school friends and we are sharing rooms. To save money, we booked a room with two queen beds, but one of our group members has become an incessant snorer. I’m a light sleeper. How do I tactfully ask that she is not my bed companion […]
I REMAIN frustrated by the government’s latest tax attack on superannuation funds. We don’t know what the exact position will be or how it might be altered by the government’s negotiations in order to get it through the Senate, as already the Greens are trying to increase the tax levy in order for it to […]
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 […]
THE Labor government is progressing a plan to increase tax on superannuation balances over $3 million – but is it fair? The government’s mounting issue is the massive amount of debt it and previous governments have racked up in past years. This number is only projected to increase substantially over the next ten budgets. As […]
DEAR Jasminda, It’s Normine B again. It was so much worse than you imagined. As my brother in law was ripping down the driveway, he knocked over my prize geraniums, breaking the pot and my heart while he was at it. The dog thankfully came away unscathed, but the cat wasn’t so lucky. He now […]
