Several weeks ago I wrote to the Minister for Local Government, asking for the current travesty of democracy which is CHCC to be investigated for its behaviour. By Julian May Here is her reply, via the Office of Local Government: “Thank you for your correspondence of 22 January 2020 to […]
The Orara Valley Community has been allocated $1,000,000 from the Federal Govt for Bushfire Recovery. Have you seen what our Local Council has decided to spend the money on, with very little public consultation? By Kellie Pearce Remembering, these grants are meant to be spent on Bushfire Recovery, the council […]
About 10 minutes after it rains I hear a siren in the town. By Airdre Grant Then I see pictures of cars where people have driven into flooded causeways or roads and, to their utter astonishment, become flooded, stuck and need rescue. I know we have drought but we also […]
Voters are sick of the lack of transparency in politics. Here’s my prescription for better, more honest government. By John Hewson. First published at The Sydney Morning Herald – Thursday 13 February 2020. See; https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/how-to-clean-up-politics-six-rules-of-engagement-20200212-p5402w.html Scott Morrison had his Trump Lite moment when he stared blankly at the Australian people […]
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 […]
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 […]
While Sports Minister Bridget McKenzie has been forced to resign over the “sports rorts” affair, the matter is far from settled. It’s likely to feature heavily in parliamentary debate in the coming days. By Yee-Fui Ng One of the outstanding issues is the very different findings by the Audit Office […]
Scott Morrison is nothing if not a marketeer. Or, to put it more precisely, he is nothing except a marketeer. By Mungo Macallum His sole area of expertise consists of convincing the gullible to buy stuff they don’t need and generally don’t want and his success can be measured by […]