Pat Schultz says: “For fourteen years I have been listening to Santos spin. We do not have a gas shortage problem; we have a gas export problem. The Pipeline Project through the Pilliga will further devastate the forest and poses a threat to water.”
Opinion
Posted inEditorial, Social
Editorial: We choose the light
Our site may be only one tiny corner of the internet, but when it comes to covering the Chanukah Massacre, we choose the light.
Posted inNational
Bondi attack came after huge increase in online antisemitism: research
At least 16 people – including a ten-year-old child – are dead after two men opened fire on a crowd of people celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on Sunday in a public park at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Many more are injured.
Posted inRegulars, Social, Solutions
Who you know can’t be the qualification
Dean Foley says when jobs, grants and contracts keep circling the same small group, people stop debating policy and start debating trust.
Posted inRegulars, Social
Denise’s Desk: Stop Ranking Our Schools! Why League Tables Harm Students and Communities
Denise McHugh writes that NAPLAN league tables have a real human cost – and we deserve better.
Posted inRegional
Do We Have Responsive Governments? New England’s Dilemmas as we approach end of 2025
Siri Gamage writes that the public and media are again turning their minds to some very long standing issues in our region.
Posted inPolitical
Nationals still working for New England
NSW National chairman Rick Colless says Barnaby Joyce will achieve nothing as a team of one, but The Nationals will still work to represent New England.
Posted inPolitical, Regulars
I take it all back, Barnaby’s a fool
RK Crosby says she thought Barnaby Joyce was one of the smartest strategists in conservative politics, but joining One Nation is just dumb.
Posted inSocial
Next to amazing – Armidale’s production of “Next to Normal”
Jack Arnold is full of praise for the recent ADMS performance of “Next to Normal”
Posted inSocial
‘Make the platforms safer’: what young people really think about the social media ban
From next Wednesday, thousands of young Australians under 16 will lose access to their accounts across ten social media platforms, as the teen social media ban takes effect.