February 4, 2024 Local OLD BAR’S TURN TO FIGHT DEVELOPMENT ON FLOOD PRONE LAND The vast gated Old Bar Resort development approved years ago along the coast south of the Meridian at the end…
February 4, 2024 Health HOW GOOD IS YOUR SUNSCREEN? Although times are a’changing, tanned skin still symbolises health, activity, and dynamism – despite warnings from our Australian of the…
February 4, 2024 Local MIDCOAST COUNCIL 2024 – IS THERE ANY HOPE? Seems these days that many have a complaint about MidCoast Council. (ie -) Here are some so far: *communicating with…
February 4, 2024 Environment ELECTRIFYING NEWS! Saul Griffith is an engineer and entrepreneur specialising in clean and renewable energy technologies and the author of 3 books…
February 4, 2024 Environment GOOD ON THE KNITTING NANA(S) Mild mannered Gloucester resident, and recently retired pre-school educator Dominique Jacobs, made legal history recently when the NSW Supreme Court…
February 4, 2024 Beyond the Valley USA 2024 CHAOS: IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA At the beginning of 2024, US politics seems more fraught than ever. Presidential elections and Donald Trump’s resurgence loom large.…
February 4, 2024 People ABC’S FORMER ARCHIVIST’S SUDDEN DEATH IN TUNCURRY A HUGE LOSS. Wendy Borchers was a life-force. An inclusive and generous mentor to everyone who came through the ABC Archive Research area,…
February 4, 2024 Health HOLIDAY SPIRIT Christmas may be over. . . but the spirit lingers. Early one Christmas morning long ago, during my shift as the emergency doctor in a hospital, a man in a…
February 4, 2024 Local MUSIC IN AN OLD TIN SHED There’s a rusty old corrugated iron shed on a farm a few kilometres out of Gloucester on Craven Creek Rd…
February 4, 2024 Books GREEN DOT Madeleine Gray. Allen and Unwin. Rrp $32.99 This is an intriguing book written in a freewheeling style I’ve not encountered…
February 4, 2024 Books RUNT Craig Silvey Illustrations Sara Acton Allen&Unwin, RRP$22.99 Jacinta, aged 7, chats to her grandad John Watts, (whom she calls Da),…
February 4, 2024 Books THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH Eddie Jaku Macmillan. Rrp $12.99 Eddie Jaku OAM was a remarkable man. A survivor of several German concentration camps during…