DEAR News Of The Area, THE October 2025 Council meeting officially concluded the first 12 months of the current term of office for Port Macquarie-Hastings Councillors. At the meeting a new Deputy Mayor was selected to take over from Lauren Edwards, who had completed her 12-month appointment to the role. I would like to pause […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE recent decision by the National Party to abandon its commitment to net zero by 2050 has left many in regional Australia questioning what this means for our future. Net zero simply means balancing the greenhouse gases we produce with those we remove from the atmosphere, ensuring the world we […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THE Nationals have rejected ‘Net Zero’, the policy they signed up to when Barnaby Joyce was their leader. Net Zero has become a totemic symbol, a two-word slogan the Nationals hate. But Net Zero is much more than a slogan – it’s an ambitious investment, energy, jobs, industry and environment […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I write about the Council’s decision to lock out Hamilton Green stallholders and use the Police, without any consultation to a teacher of 30 years who had her materials and students’ paintings locked up. Sister Marjorie, who feeds the homeless and now uses her mobile kitchen donated to her from […]
DEAR News Of The Area, TWO months ago there was a letter about plans to charge school age sportspeople for using sports fields. The letter writer blamed the idea on “lefties”. This has been niggling me and now I write, as a self identifying leftie, to clean up this misunderstanding. Lefties wish to reduce inequality, […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been a regular visitor to this area since my first visit in 2010. I was very disappointed to read of the lockdown of the Hamilton Green markets after 55 years of operation at the same site. The Rotary book fair at this site was one of the reasons […]
DEAR News Of The Area, FROM my observations at polling booths, it is clear that many voters are ignorant of the system of government in this country. Some of the voting public do not know the difference between State and Federal governments, let alone who the candidates represent. If voting is compulsory, so should education […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I WOULD like to say a big thank you to a young couple and Bec, who is a paramedic, who helped me and my wife at Thrumster on Saturday 25 October. My wife who is 77 tripped over and fell to the ground, causing some bruising but mainly shock. They […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AS a general observation, I can’t understand how the priority of [upgrading] an expensive, over-budgeted expressway got the go ahead – instead of the Wright’s and Lake Road roundabouts being addressed. We have past and present State and Federal local representatives who enabled this to happen. To me, this doesn’t […]
DEAR News Of The Area My family and I really enjoy your paper in Port Macquarie. However, (and isn’t there always a BUT ), we were sorry to see a letter published in the name of Harry Creamer: (“Inconvenient truths about ocean pool”, 10 October). It is a pity you did not check his arithmetic. […]
