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QW: Flooding and helping our neighbours

27 May 202528 May 2025

The New England and southern downs has yet again copped the flood of trucks and traffic as flood waters rise and engulf the coasts. It’s exposed serious and dangerous flaws in our national highway system and supply chains as we are yet again playing dodge the potholes on the highway. Listening to idle chatter on […]

How can we think outside the box to help our coastal neighbours?

26 May 202518 June 2025

Can we think about a bigger community transition to empower people to relocate to higher ground in a way where everyone wins?

Letters

Letter: Make The Mall viable again! Council has no problem with ‘inner city housing’.

22 May 202528 May 2025

With towns as popular as Katoomba feeling the pinch due to online shopping, they too have to cope with vacant shops in their Main Street. We have a similar problem.

Letters

Letter: Severn Shire RATE RISE!!!

21 May 202528 May 2025

I write on behalf of many concerned residents to express our town’s absolute opposition to the proposed 68.50% rate rise, alongside the rise of the rubbish charge.

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QW: Universal living wage. Cost of living.

6 May 20257 May 2025

“Cost of living” COL is a crisis resulting from prices rising faster than income.

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QW: Vittoria student living in Tenterfield

23 April 202524 April 2025

Vittoria from Turino, my family are from Piedmont although I was born in Australia and I visit regularly to Torre Pellice where it all started. Turino is a beautiful city on the river Po with the country side and the alps enhancing the district. Vittoria enjoy your time in our country as much as I […]

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QW: Why we are losing a generation of journos

23 April 202523 April 2025

Journos are more important than at any other time in history. With a plethora of fake news infiltrating social media, it is important that the media puts the facts out there. Society fails when it runs on bull dust.

Letters

Letter: Voters pinning their hopes on cost of living relief from a Coalition government should think again.

21 April 202528 May 2025

Peter Dutton’s shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, was asked repeatedly on ABC radio recently to name a single Coalition policy to combat cost of living pressures.

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QW: Nuclear losing support

20 April 202520 April 2025

Nuclear does not make sense if renewables can supply 100% energy. however that is far from clear. Renewables supply 35% today but unlikely to supply all. We need another source. Coal gas Ok short term but not long term.

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QW: Barnaby no-show at all candidate forums

20 April 202520 April 2025

Barnaby owes it to his electorate to show up to all ‘meet the candidates’ across the electorate. What thinking person would vote for a candidate that can’t be bothered to attend these meetings