Extended library services should be expanded
[FORUM] The extended online services being provided by Central Coast libraries (Libraries extend free online resources, Peninsula News, April 20) are to be heartily welcomed but they should not be…
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Queensland Council installs toilet soap dispensers
[FORUM] Our comparator council, the Sunshine Coast Council in Queensland, announced on March 23 that it would install and maintain soap dispensers in all public toilet facilities across the region…
Work from home after lockdown ends
Working from Home is the new phrase we have become familiar with but what does it mean and could it help our local economy? For this commuter it means, I…
Confidence wanted in council management of funds
[FORUM] Thanks for publishing your article (Town centres, wharf and drainage get budget allocation, Peninsula News, April 20). I draw attention to this excerpt from Central Coast Council’s operational plan:…
Fuel profiteering as we are asked to pull together
[Forum] Peninsula fuel prices remain 30 cents a litre dearer than Gosford and Sydney. This borders on theft, taking advantage of our isolation in this extraordinary time of government aid…
Ratepayers are becoming desperate
[Forum] The toilet block near the library in Umina is a disgrace. When I made a comment to another user recently, he said that Woolworths asked Central Coast Council if…
Documented evidence available on request
[Forum] My thanks to Godfrey Franz considering my letter (Forum edition 237) as a “joke”. That is exactly the reaction I expected because no climate change denier is ever likely…
What caused coral bleaching?
I now realise that the purpose of Guy Caruana’s confusing letters to the editor which have appeared in several editions of Coast Community News as of late are to support…
Pedestrians have to be aware of roundabouts too
[Forum] I cannot fathom whence came reader Bruce Hyland’s perception of my response as misrepresentation (Coast Community News Forum edition 235). As admitted, I am an avid follower of him,…
Residents should decide on community modules
[Forum] Hal Colebatch is absolutely correct, as I have pointed out myself, that ward boundaries are completely inappropriate as planning modules (Coast Community News Forum edition 237), because of the…
Can working from home become the norm?
WFH – Working from Home – the new acronym commuting locals have become familiar with, but what does it mean? For this commuter, it means that I have set up…
Coast Community News appreciated
It’s been a long time since I spent a pleasurable day reading a local newspaper with such interest, usefulness and amusement. Many of the articles in last week’s paper (Coast…
Are we all suffering from a Nature Deficit Disorder?
[Forum] Our political, economic and religious institutions are in crisis and generally dysfunctional as they try to solve today’s problems with the same thinking processes that created them. Our politicians…
Fair and equitable seems to have many meanings
Again, we have an example of magic number-juggling by the government to explain the distribution of transport projects under the Urban Congestion Fund (“Claimed Urban Congestion Funds rorts partially explained,…
Bolt, Pell are both denialists
[Forum] Andrew Bolt and George Pell are birds of a feather. They’re both denialists. Bolt is a Stolen Generation denier, even telling his audience that they were a myth. Pell…
Long list of projects to be done before nuclear power
[Forum] Taylor Martin MLC and his committee believe that it is appropriate to refit our ageing coal fired power stations with small scale nuclear power generators to guarantee electric power…
Council ward does not have shared characteristics
[Forum] You would have to feel sorry for the council official given the job of drafting a “character statement” for each of the council wards, given that they were not…
Collapse of the oil price will sink all new subsidised green projects
[Forum] There is no longer any need for anyone to understand, or accept, that all the oxygen consumed in burning all the fuel and forests is quickly returned to the…
Reading letter only left me with a headache
Please, nobody attempt to respond to the farrago of nonsense presented by Guy Caruana (Forum Coast Community News edition 236). It is best not to give any suggestion of credibility…
Rate of CO2 increase is a long way away from equilibrium
The understanding of global warming and associated climate change requires careful research and a good background in the scientific principles involved. Unfortunately, Mr Caruana’s letter (Coast Community News edition 235)…