Planting for frost on the New England tablelands: tips for spring
Isaac from Nursery Near Me has some tips for spring planting on the tablelands, and says you should keep it simple, and choose natives from the cold country, not the coast.
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Denise’s Desk: Progress doesn’t happen by accident
Denise says she doesn’t know where the increasingly complicated relationship between the Coalition and One Nation will ultimately end.
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Opinion | Keeping the Light on the Hill burning
Denise asks what is government actually for? It is a question worth asking at a time when politics increasingly seems to be about outrage, grievance, personalities and winning the daily argument on social media.
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Begin Rant | Challenge is always good
RK says Glen Innes Severn Councillor David Scott has lost all day. Be like David.
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Opinion | Closing The Gap: What exactly is being measured here?
Professor Peter Anderson, the Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous at UNE, asks whether we are measuring how far Indigenous people are from a national benchmark, or whether institutions are meeting their obligations.
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Denise’s Desk | Pauline and me
Denise says that she and Pauline Hanson have more in common than you might think.
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Kate McGrath Responds to Comments Regarding Working Mothers in Leadership
Read the full statement of Cr Kate McGrath in response to the “working mum” comment made by Cr Rob Hooke, republished with permission.
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Letter: Working mothers deserve the same standard
The Tamworth Branch of the Australian Labor Party
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Begin rant: Please tell me what is the problem?
RK Crosby writes that we seem to be drowning in policy solutions and frantic debates about everything from guns to immigration, but no one seems to be clear on what problem they are actually trying to solve.
Keep readingLetter: A remarkable double standard
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 not only patronising, it could not be further from the truth. McGrath has already demonstrated that she can balance work, family and public service. She served successfully as Deputy Mayor…
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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 for their wives who should always be bare-foot, pregnant and in the kitchen waiting in anxious anticipation for the return of their spouses. Nationals – the party you have when…
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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.
Keep readingLetter: Duty is not treachery
Denise writes she disagrees with Andrew Hastie on plenty politically, but Pauline Hanson’s attack on him is disgraceful.
Keep readingQW: 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 and thought what an obscene waste of public money. We can’t run a health system but we build new schools when we had perfectly adequate ones in place.
Keep readingQW: 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.
Keep readingQW: 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 she should look elsewhere for a better place to live?
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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.
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Denise’s Desk: Nepal Is Another Wake-Up Call. How Many Do We Need?
Denise says from melting Himalayan glaciers to fires, floods and bleaching reefs, climate change is no longer a warning about the future. We are living through it — even as our politics retreats from confronting it.
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