[Forum] Tim Bard is quite correct that a roundabout reduces severe and fatal crashes, as compared to a light-controlled intersection (Forum, edition 228), although he does not point out that…
[Forum]Why did Ausgrid sack 4,000 people and then call upon the Federal Government to use Defence Force engineers to repair our power supply? All power and water should be owned…
[Forum] Put the words ‘climate’ and ‘change’ into a headline (Coast Community News edition 229) and you are bound to get some reaction in this modern era. After all, it…
[Foum] This letter is in response to Godfrey Franz’s letter which appeared in Coast Community News, edition 229. Mr Franz can expect to find no evidence one way or the…
[Forum] This letter is in response to Godfrey Franz’s letter which appeared in Coast Community News 229. Within his incoherent ramble, he asks for facts and photos. If he wanted…
[Forum] Clarification of Coast Community News’ reporting standards is overdue. I refer Mr Godfrey Franz’s letter to the editor in edition 229 and the false advice therein. Mr Franz refers…
The following is an open letter to Minister for Energy and Environment, Matt Kean. Minister Kean, I implore you to use all the powers of your office to end Centennial…
[Forum] In response to Paul Fletcher’s letter (Coast Community News Feb 7 p 14): Mr Fletcher, Federal Minister for Communications, stated: “Our safety standards in Australia are based on the…
[Forum]Once again, on February 10, we experienced a disrupted chaotic journey to the city from Woy Woy: People left queuing with buses coming every 30 minutes during peak hour on…
Over the past decade or so, the emphasis in public discourse has been disproportionately on university as the route to a successful career, while TAFE as a pathway, has been…
A hang glider was rescued from a cliff off Bateau Bay’s Crackneck Lookout after crashing his glider. Emergency services were called to the lookout, located in Wyrrabalong National Park, at…
Climate change action has been rejected by the three levels of government since at least the 1980s. The ramifications of this apathy have reached crisis level years in advance of…
[Forum]I was one of about 50 residents who attended Central Coast Council’s Deputy Mayor, Jane Smith’s, meeting on planning for the Coast on January 16, and I think those active…
[Forum] Minister Andrew Constance said he is a changed man after his experience fighting the bushfires around his home. Although no one would wish such trauma on anyone, the residents…
[Forum] This is an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. I would like to know what specific efforts you, your Foreign Minister or diplomats, have made to bring the…
[Forum] Councillor Mehrtens is right in claiming (edition 219), that it is crazy to base council strategic planning on wards. They are just artificial bureaucratic creations, constructed to put about…
How refreshing it was to read your article in edition 223 regarding Central Coast Councillors, Troy Marquart, Greg Best and Chris Burke, for showing the intestinal fortitude to vote for…
[Forum] Malcolm Brooks’ call for “conserving the Coast’s dwindling water supplies and controlling development ahead of a huge projected population boom” (“Unchecked population growth will have a dramatic impact on…
[Forum] The new ‘climate fix’ seems to be fracking, now in the Northern Territory and spreading Australia wide. No mention of the huge amounts of water needed, much of it…
[Forum] I read with interest a letter from Robert Findley dated December 6, 2019, regarding 100,000 men and women needed to be trained for all emergencies. In the war years…