We are currently witnessing what happens when you put someone from a marketing background in the Prime Minister’s chair: flip flopping with next to no core values guiding policy decision making. By Peter van Onselen Australians have become used to their political leaders lacking spine and bending to a populist […]
Anyone wanting to learn about the history of the Coffs Harbour Bypass should read this document. By Rod McKelvey It has the weighty name of the “Pacific Highway Upgrade Coffs Harbour Bypass State significant infrastructure application report. May 2015.” But it is a mighty important document and it is authored […]
NIMBY. For those unfamiliar with this acronym it stands for Not In My Back Yard. It is a condition to arise when the community realises some outcome is close to becoming a reality but then they find it has some adverse impact on them. They will support the idea of […]
From the Facebook site – Coffs bypass group. Sue Strodl It’s time that Coffs Harbour reviewed political alliances and used our voices and votes to elect a government that will listen and invest in us so that we are the best damn town on the north coast – we deserve […]
The Prime Minister Scott Morrison found himself in a very awkward spot on the day the world’s most authoritative climate science body released its latest report. By Paul Bongiorno He was in the radio studio of one of the nation’s most strident global warming sceptics, Alan Jones. He was being […]
Gladys Berejiklian’s intervention forcing the Sydney Opera House to promote horse racing illustrates more than the extraordinary power wielded by shock jocks like Alan Jones. It also exemplifies the degradation of “the public” as a concept in Australian life. By Jeff Sparrow In her initial opposition to Racing New South […]
There have been times when Outlook has had reason to be critical of some of the actions of Coffs Harbour Councillors. Not this time though. By the Editor It is a bouquet we send in this column. Not a brickbat. At the last Council meeting on 27 September Council voted […]
I just can’t do it! Upon seeing the map of the proposed Coffs Harbour Bypass by the RMS last week with their faux tunnels as ‘land bridges’ and deep scarring cuts along the ‘Coastal Ridgeway’ they propose, I got MAD! By Phil Tripp We got the cheap option that involves […]
The following is from Garth Cornwall who went along to the first RMS by-pass ‘information session’ at the Coffs Harbour Golf Club on Thursday night (27-9-18); ‘Hi Editor: I went along today and the place was packed with the numbers steadily growing. So much so that all I could do […]
We cant trust MPs while they conceal the influence of donors and lobbyists. How easy is it for the rich and powerful to buy favourable treatment from our politicians? Honest answer: we just don’t know. What we do know is that we’ve become increasing distrustful of our pollies and doubtful […]