The following are the conclusions from the Public Inquiry held into the Port Macquarie-Hastings Council which specifically looked at the Glasshouse project. We re-publish them here without any further comment but we would like to hear from you if you think it ‘rings any bells’. “5.3 Conclusions • Council, represented […]
⚠️MAJOR FLOODING IS POSSIBLE AT GLENREAGH TODAY AND COUTTS CROSSING TOMORROW AND A SEVERE WEATHER WARNING IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE FOR THE MID NORTH COAST. ⚠️ AREAS THAT MAY BE IMPACTED: Nana Glen, Glenreagh, Kremnos Kungala, Braunstone, Coutts Crossing, Middle Creek, Kangaroo Creek and surrounding areas ⚠️ INTENSE STORM CAUSES […]
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has thrown his support behind a climate action bill proposed by the independent Zali Steggall and has urged the major parties to put down the cudgels and support it. By Katharine Murphy and Adam Morton And the Australian Energy Council, representing major electricity and gas businesses, […]
For the first time, an intervention – lifting weights – has been able to slow and even halt degeneration, over a long period, in brain areas particularly vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers have found that six months of strength training (lifting weights) can help protect brain areas especially vulnerable to […]
We would like Gurmesh Singh – MP, Shelley Hancock MP, Andrew Fraser and State Planning Minister, Rob Stokes, to look into what we say below. We also suggest The Coffs Coast Advocate, and ABC Coffs Coast should follow this up too. Written by, and published on behalf of, the Citizens […]
EDITORIAL We now know that the Council Chambers/Cultural Cenre (CCCC) DA was the subject of 874 submissions to the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment who are ultimately responsible for approving or denying the application. The vast majority of these submissions opposed the proposed DA with 844 objecting to […]
Contrary to last Thursday’s front-page report in The Australian, it’s not all that uncommon for Reserve Bank governors to provide federal cabinet with a confidential economic briefing. By Michael Pascoe What is uncommon, unique even, is for the government to disparagingly leak about the briefing to the ‘LNP Gazette‘. It […]
This Thursday 13 February is the date of the first scheduled Coffs Harbour City Council meeting for 2020, a Council election year. On the agenda is a motion to consider a number of confidential tenders for the controversial proposed new Council Chambers and Cultural Center (CCCC) in Gordon Street. The […]
BOOK REVIEW William Gibson made his reputation with his very first novel. Published in 1984 and awarded science fiction’s “triple crown” — the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards — “Neuromancer”wasn’t the book where Gibson coined the now-ubiquitous neologism “cyberspace.” By Cory Doctorow Nor was it the first cyberpunk novel. […]
Did you see the news about the massacre of koalas in a logging operation in Portland, Victoria recently? By Airdre Grant Reports are that approximately 500 koalas were bulldozed along with their trees and left there in a tangled mess with the trees, wounded, dead and dying. A passer-by filmed […]