DEAR News Of The Area, IT is with some surprise that I find myself compelled to write this letter of commendation and appreciation of our past Dungog Councils. Like everyone else in the community, for years, indeed half my lifetime, if I saw two or more people engaged in earnest conversation, I could bet they […]
DEAR News Of The Area, ON Sunday, 7 June, I attended a meeting at the Doug Walters Pavillion. It had been arranged by the Dungog Council, and was to keep all of us locals up to speed with what is going on with the planning for the future Housing and Infrastructure Master Plan, for our […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA’S inland waterways are insufficient for safe operation and cooling of Mr Dutton’s proposed nuclear reactors, according to a new report commissioned by Liberals Against Nuclear (Newcastle Herald, 9 April). The report, by Professor Andrew Campbell of Triple Helix Consulting, compared available water resources at each of the Coalition’s proposed […]
DEAR News Of The Area, I READ with some interest Cr Ley’s proposal for an investigation into a proper caravan park for Dungog. The lack of a van park has been a constant problem for many, many years. Forty and more years ago, when my wife and our two then preteen children were caravaners, as […]
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 […]
