Increase funding for the ABC
Forum – Prime Minister Joseph Lyons’ government established the ABC on 1 July 1932, delivering radio across the country, and 24 years later Prime Minister Robert Menzies on 5 November…
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Manners … and respect for elders
Forum fully agree with Mr. Horsefall’s letter regarding the behaviour of our youngsters. I travel to Sydney for work every Tuesday afternoon catching the train from Gosford. While I wait…
Amalgamation has not been a good thing for residents
Forum – Three years of amalgamation (Chronicle Sept 16 “New amalgamated Council three years on) has led to less transparency, minimal contact with staff on issues that concern the ratepayers…
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…
A simple offer of help
Forum – When the coronavirus started, AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) lost our meeting hall; the only meeting hall we could get was a small hall at the Progress Hall East Gosford….
Learning from our mistakes
Forum – I must thank B. Hyland of Woy Woy for his contribution (CCN September 18) and may I add to that by enlightening all, that Councillor Holstein has made…
A little support can indeed make a lot of difference
Forum – The number of Australians living with dementia is close to half a million – a number that is set to double in the next 25 years – with…
Cannot repair road properly as it was in too poor a condition
Forum – I live on Railway Rd, Warnervale, and have been complaining to Central Coast Council about the state of this thoroughfare for a number of years. The answer, if…
Planned retreat is well established throughout the world
Forum – The claim by Godfrey Franz about the Wamberal seawall boondoogle in “Planned retreat is a dumb unproven theory” Coast Community Chronicle, September 9, that, “if we stand aside…
Frustrated with trend to advertising litter?
Forum – Am I alone in my frustration at the latest trend for advertising material by supermarkets and other organisations to now appear on the ground at the foot of…
Use of bikes in parks is not black and white
Forum It is with increasing anxiety that I have been watching the developments between the mountain bike and national park community groups. (“Police investigate tyre spikes on national park trail,…
Sea wall saga
Forum The residents of the Coast who believe (in) building a sea wall at Wamby beach have got their heads in the sand (what’s left of it). If you think…
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…