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Letter: Climate change is a major factor driving up food costs

1 day ago10 July 2025

Ben Gerbert from FCA argues Australians are rightly making the connection between climate change and rising food prices.

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Letter: Electrification of trains

24 June 202524 June 2025

Rick Banyard says the new Spanish-built R Sets replacing the Explorer to Armidale will run mainly on diesel, using up to 1,200 litres per trip. Battery packs were not ordered, missing a saving of over $1,000 in fuel each journey.

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Letter: Joyce’s Campaign Against Clean Energy

7 June 202510 June 2025

Robert Walker says Barnaby Joyce rants against renewables, creates victims and saviours out of nothing, and clings to propaganda while the Nationals scramble to save the furniture.

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Letter: The rail will never, and should never, come back.

28 May 202528 May 2025

Liz Wharton of Glen Innes writes there’s little to no true economic benefits, and the costs would be exorbitant.

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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.

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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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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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Letter: Barnaby’s legacy just rotten policy

16 April 202528 May 2025

Barnaby Joyce was told it was a bad idea to move the pesticides regulator (APVMA) to Armidale and he did it anyway.

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Letter: Nuclear support melting down; water question unanswered

15 April 202528 May 2025

RE-Alliance has been working with rural and regional communities navigating energy projects for more than a decade. We recently released polling across several proposed nuclear communities, which found support for nuclear reactors in those communities was very low. The polling of 1250 regional residents was conducted by respected research firm 89 Degrees East, which is a member of the Research Society of Australia. The data revealed only 22% of […]

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Letter: No cost of living relief from the Coalition

5 April 202528 May 2025

Voters pinning their hopes on cost of living relief from a Coalition government should think again. 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. Each time he failed to name one, eventually claiming that “good economic management” and […]