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)…
A correction to my letter published in the Forum of Coast Community News edition 235. It has been explained to me by a person with superior knowledge on chemistry, that…
The letter by Col Hodgson (Coast Community News edition 237) on climate change is a joke. Climate change supporters need to prove there is change, not deniers. I say there…
[Forum] Over the past 20 years, I have warned the Governments of Australia about environmentally induced disease, but I have been ignored. Well now we are being punished for it.We…
[Forum] As ANZAC Day approaches, I expect veterans and the community will want to commemorate this significant day while complying with current restrictions. Suggestions that I have heard to replace…
[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…
Why can’t Central Coast Council set up a roster of volunteers willing to contribute their time to community support measures in this difficult time? In the UK, the response to…
[Forum] COVID-19 has created worldwide lockdowns. The cancellation of air, land and ocean travel has caused a massive reduction in the burning of fossil fuels.Can we expect CO2 emissions to…
[Forum] Reading the recent letters from the plethora of climate change deniers I cannot help but be dismayed by their clearly displayed lack of scientific understanding. May I suggest that…
[Forum]After reading both Mary Notman’s recent letters (editions 232 and 231) and The Woy Woy Philosophers Society, (my favourite column) I am convinced that they are penned by the same…
[Forum] The following is an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Federal and State Governments; Dear Prime Minister, Federal and State members, whilst you are busy legislating…
[Forum]May I congratulate Rod Bower for his thoughtful contribution on the question of a social response to the coronavirus outbreak (Coast Community News, Out and About, edition 234). I don’t…
[Forum] The full page advertisement by Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, appearing on page 7 of Coast Community News edition 232, is so full of political spin that even…
[Forum] Scapegoating a recently elected Mayor, continual political posing by individuals, and party politics, effectively diverts people from the problem that is The Entrance Channel. The issue has rumbled on…
[Forum] Growing up in the 60s and 70s in Umina, I have vivid memories of the importance our bore water played in our everyday lives. Most houses had vegetable gardens…
[Forum] It takes some chutzpah for Lucy Wicks to reiterate Scott Morrison’s lie, that every project funded by the CSI program was eligible for funding (edition 183), when the Auditor-General…
[FORUM] It is typical of the arrogance of Wyong Coal that it thinks it can bribe its way to respectability and acceptance by the community with a paltry $100,000 donation…
[FORUM] Firstly, it is reassuring that this publication has stayed balanced and fact based and has not become a biased anti-everything load of preaching such as the Community Grapevine. With…
[FORUM] Police are appealing for public assistance as they continue to investigate an assault at The Entrance. At about 5:45pm on Wednesday, March 11, a 43-year-old man was walking along…
[Forum] Today (Friday, March 13), I was shopping in my local supermarket at Umina and stopped to talk with a friend. We had both walked past an empty toilet paper…