Last year a delegation from the Coffs Harbour City Council (CHCC) visited Geelong with a view to seeing if what had been done there with their city center and arts/council precinct was of relevance to Coffs Harbour and the proposed new Gordon Street Cultural/Council Chambers. The general view as represented […]
Recent water studies undertaken by Southern Cross University on behalf of Coffs Council have revealed record-breaking levels of agricultural chemicals in our water. What could be more alarming than that? Key reporting on the studies appears to have been mysteriously scrubbed from some of the Coffs Coast Advocate’s online search […]
A new disease, corruption anaesthesia, has afflicted the Australian political landscape. By Michelle Pini CORRUPTION ANAESTHESIA Essentially, this is the inability, whether willful or unwitting, to digest unpalatable information about those in power and hold them accountable. While this is prevalent among politicians and the mainstream media, it is certainly […]
Everyone loves a koala, don’t they? What’s not to like? A small, inoffensive, leaf-eating, cute marsupial that oozes calm charm! By Kevin Evans For decades captive koalas have been patted and mauled by every visiting dignitary from Putin to Obama and even the odd Queen. Koalas are without doubt our international […]
A slur, a smear, grubby tactics, thundered the outraged ScoMo. Labor is getting down into the mud. By Mungo MacCallum (pictured) Well, perhaps; but the reason is that there is a lot of mud around. The gaffes, blunders, scandals and general atrocities which his ministers have turned into a veritable […]
It’s a conundrum that’s not easy to answer. Yet it occurs time after time. As is occurring right now. Is it better to claim to be on top of things because you want to ‘look good’? By ‘Cob” Or is it more sensible to accept some deficiency and receive help? […]
(In response to “Hype of the Bypass” Coffs Coast Advocate February 6th 2019) Ordinary people often complain that the “big end of town” has no concern for them and we wonder if this is yet another example. The Coffs Bypass Action Group (CBAG), is asking if the Coffs Harbour Chamber […]
Every 10 to 15 years it’s the same. By Andrew Linden and Warren Staples Ever since financial deregulation in the 1980s we’ve had a finance industry scandal followed by an inquiry, a quick fix, and a declaration that it shouldn’t happen again. In the early 1990s there were royal commissions […]
Warren Mundine is a serious politician. For most of his life he has been a player in the great game, either directly or more often and perhaps more effectively indirectly, through working in and around his community. By Mungo MacCallum His campaigns have not always been successful but he has […]
By MUNGO MCCALLUM| 18 December 2018 The darkest hour, they say, is just before dawn. And it just may be that a glimmer of light is appearing in the five-year nightmare of the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison dynasty. We are not talking only of the imminent demise of the feral muppets, although that […]