Not happy with bank branch closures
Forum – Is there one greedy large bank that has any thoughts towards assisting their customers, especially the elderly and the disabled? It is getting harder to reach any ANZ…
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A simple offer of help
Learning from our mistakes
A little support can indeed make a lot of difference
Cannot repair road properly as it was in too poor a condition
Planned retreat is well established throughout the world
Frustrated with trend to advertising litter?
Use of bikes in parks is not black and white
Sea wall saga
Well done CCN for coverage of Councillors’ achievements
Forum Coast Community News is to be congratulated for its coverage of the “achievements” of our councillors over the past three years (CCN, Sep 11). This will be extremely valuable…
Put political point-scoring aside for the sake of a long-term plan
Forum – I find Debra O’Neill’s comments (CCN September 4) with regard to development puzzling and presume she was searching for anything to criticise the Federal Member Lucy Wicks. Neither…
Courtesy and compromise needed in MTB debate
Forum – It is with increasing anxiety that I have been watching the developments between the mountain bike/national park community groups. I fear that views on how we use the…
Consider yourself lucky
Forum – In response to Danny Muller’s entry in the Forum of edition 204 regarding the pension, consider yourself blessed that you live in Australia. While I agree that some…
Bouquet for council workers
Forum – I just had council out to fix a drainage problem that I had, and what a nice bunch of fellas they are. They took every care with the…
Waste recycling facility is too close to everything
Forum – What on earth are they thinking? A waste recycling facility to crush 99,000 tonnes of concrete, bricks, tiles etc, per year, operating six days per week, just up…
Can’t we build our own trains?
Forum – The best trains being built are Australian, built in the Newcastle factory at Goninan’s near Broadmeadow, Newcastle. So I ask why is any government buying trains made overseas…
Blatant lack of respect
Forum – Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, September 14), my husband and I parked in a disabled reserved spot, as we have a permit to do so, at Coles Toukley. The car…
The abandoned supermarket trolley problem
Forum I would like to take the opportunity to express a bug bear of mine – the continual theft and dumping of supermarket trolleys. Every day, we see some dumped…
Community should not bear responsibility for beachfront properties
Forum It is good to see a glimmer of common sense on the question of waterfront properties (“Greens advocate for planned retreat along beachfront”, CCN 258). Leaving aside the issue…
Build a sea wall
Forum Planned Retreat is just about the dumbest unproven theory since the flat earth society actually existed. These galoops ignore the facts and the science – we have thousands and…