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…
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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…
Time to protect the Coast’s premier natural asset
Forum Coastal Open Space System, or COSS as it is lovingly referred to by many locals, is a large network of reserves and bushland around our ridges, down into the…
Planned retreat is a dumb unproven theory
Forum I write in reference to Coast Community Chronicle September 2, page 6, “Planned retreat is the best way to combat coastal erosion – Greens”. Planned retreat is just about…
Pensioners are fortunate that they didn’t get a reduction
Forum As a pensioner, I sympathise with Danny Mullen (Pensioners missed out the most”, Coast Community Chronicle 204, September 2) that he didn’t get his meagre pension increase this year….
Former Prime Minister now a British trade advisor
Forum Tony Abbott renounced his British citizenship to become Australian Prime Minister but was dumped by his own Liberal mob. Now he has become the British unpaid trade advisor in…
Seating will only make thin lane thinner
Forum I write in reference to the article in Peninsula News 501 on August 24 about the laneway between Umina Beach surf club and Ocean Beach surf club being “upgraded”….
Paperbarks slashed yet again
Forum My journey into Woy Woy has become incredibly stressful. The tree hackers have been at it again and the melaleuca quinquernervias, or broad leaved paper-barks, in South Woy Woy,…
Poor form, Mr Hazzard
Forum Disasters can bring out the best and worst in all of us but last week’s performance by the NSW Health Minister where he openly abused the NSW Opposition leader,…
Mr Crouch, what about traffic at Kariong
Forum I notice Mr Crouch says 3,000 jobs are to be created at the Kariong parklands precinct (CCN Aug 28). That would mean at least 2,000 motor vehicles entering and…
Weight of research suggests mountain-biking is harmful to the bush
Forum In reference to J. Curtis’s letter (CCN August 28): Mountain biking and trail-building destroy wildlife habitat. Mountain biking is environmentally, socially, and medically destructive. There is no good reason…
Let’s stick to the facts
Forum Mr. Findley’s notion that Australian industries have relocated overseas because of the payroll tax (“Ditch payroll tax”, CCN 257) is so outlandish that it is hard to know how…
Replace Warnervale railway crossing now, not later when its too busy
Forum As we all know the Warnervale area is growing. In the next 10 to 20 years, according to various articles, there will be up to 25 new streets, an…