Re: Deputy mayor under fire for ‘working mum’ remarks I listened to incoming Gunnedah Deputy Mayor Rob Hooke’s comments on ABC Radio about outgoing Deputy Mayor Kate McGrath, and frankly I was appalled. His suggestion that McGrath’s capacity to serve as Deputy Mayor was somehow compromised because she is a working mother with children is […]
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QW: To the brave misogynist
RE: Deputy mayor under fire for ‘working mum’ remarks Cr Hooke is a brave misogynist to talk down a working Mum anywhere, especially a live wire who knows what she is doing. It appears that the Nationals are returning to GSC to lead the town back into the mists of the 19th century where husbands voted […]
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Opinion: Breaking through the infloglut: the vicious cycle between information overload and anger
COVID, global warming, conspiracy theorists, natural disasters, financial collapses — and a sham social media ban. It’s no wonder young Australians are glum, writes Professor Axel Bruns
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Denise’s Desk: The $1,200 Lesson Hidden in a Wedding Dress
Denise writes there are practical skills, trades and crafts sitting right under our noses for which there is genuine demand, good money and, in some cases, employers crying out for people.
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Letter: Duty is not treachery
Denise writes she disagrees with Andrew Hastie on plenty politically, but Pauline Hanson’s attack on him is disgraceful.
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QW: Waste of Duval
Although I have not lived in Armidale for 30 years I well recall the urgency of getting a second high school in the town. AHS had too many students and it needed to be split. I had a profound sense of sadness when my old school was gutted. I also recently drove up past Duval […]
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QW: GISC meeting
Your coverage of the extraordinary meeting of the Glen Innes Severn Council on 10.9 26 was brilliant. I was there and your article even caught the nuances under the surface. Well done.
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QW: Cliquey nonsense
The Hillgrove Mine coverage was very interesting but too long, until got to the part about Armidale being very cliquey – what nonsense! If she is unable to find her ‘group’ among the many social groups in town, then ‘look to home first’. Then the author went on to tear down the town – perhaps […]
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Begin rant: Growth means more than moving on
RK Crosby has been reflecting on the Armidale Secondary College series from 2023, and says we need to be brave enough to say stop.
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Opinion: Counting the cost-of-living, angrily
Mark Kenny writes that fights over multiculturalism and gender are hiding the core of the nation’s despair — rising economic inequality.