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Re: Cars in the mall and no more bowling club: Armidale’s city centre plan revealed While I think most people in Armidale would agree there is significant room for improvement in the CBD (particularly in parking), what on earth is this council doing? We’re getting slugged extra rates to fix the stuff that’s been broken […]

Re:  Denise’s Desk: The Reform Everyone Wanted — Until They Got It An excellent analysis of the Dr Jim Chalmers reforms to residential real estate investment conditions, that were too long overdue and disadvantaged first home buyers.  The slowing of auction clearances and prices slowly going down plus vendors meeting 10% price discounts for sales […]

Re: NSW unveils roadmap to grow $100 million hemp industry Finally after almost a decade of Sydney government inactivity, the industrial hemp industry can move forward and provide New England with a viable plant crop suited to almost any growing location or conditions.  We already have one such high security operation, and the possibility of […]

Dominic D Ahiaga-Dagbui, Director of Deakin Megaprojects Research Group, writes we have a bad track record of bad budget blow outs on big projects like Inland Rail.

44 years ago I collected my overnight freight for my motor business from Armidale railway station. All freight bar a very small amount came on rail. Fuel, livestock , steel etc. all on trains. Government closed the rail down but never allocated more $ to roads to pay for truck use. The lip service paid […]

The cost of road freight and private travel has come to point that railroad transportation and freight needs to be reinstated in this area. To cut down on road infrastructure costs, high living costs involving fuel, registrations and maintenance on vehicles. Rail freight options bring in a cheaper long distance option to industry because rail […]

Siri is encouraging people to have their say in the consultation process currently open with Armidale Regional Council, regardless of their opinion.

Re: Local leaders testify to “human cost” of Inland Rail axing The only part of the Northern Inland Railway that should be completed immediately is the 23 km (?) across Moree Plains Shire Council so that Moree and Narrabri district producers may export directly out of Port Newcastle at a saving of about $35.00 per tonne.  […]

Re: Expanded coach services to boost regional connections I’m an 81 year old and only drive locally these days. I was really looking forward to the new bus service between Armidale and Port Macquarie. Alas, the trip takes at least 11 hours via Urunga and then south to Port Macquarie, arriving in the early hours […]

re:  Local farmer earns more than 5,000 carbon credits through soil project Funny how natural fertilisers like rock phosphate and mulch have a greater impact on the long term conditioning of soil.  An experienced old farmer advised this 50 years ago, before super-P was added to our paddocks.  He was correct, the rock -P remained […]