A broken promise is of no consequence when $254 billion for tax relief could be used for deteriorating health, social, aged and disability services, and for education. read now...COFFS Harbour was bustling over the Easter break, with its popularity as a destination seeing our city rank thirteenth on Booking.com’s top searched domestic destinations over the Easter period*; that’s up fifteen spots on last year’s ranking. Melbourne topped the list, with the remaining cities in the top five being classic travel favourites Sydney, Gold...
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IT may be seven months away, but now is the time for the community to come together and pool ideas for the annual Sawtell Super Fun Day on New Year’s Day 2024, according to stalwart volunteer and outgoing Committee Chairperson Keith Bensley. Everyone interested in contributing their ideas to the 2024 Sawtell Super Fun Day...
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THE Coffs Harbour chapter of Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) has just completed its first term for 2023, and is looking to increase rider numbers for its next term, beginning on Tuesday 2 May. Coffs RDA has been active for the past nineteen years and is a charitable organisation that receives no government funding,...
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AS the launch of the Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival 2023 program fast approaches, organisers have extended an invitation for local authors to step into the limelight during the June long weekend festivities. Program director Adam Norris explained to News Of The Area, “Back in 2021, when we first scheduled a local author wing to...
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THE COFFS Coast Pipes and Drums band was amongst a huge crowd of musicians and spectators attending the Maclean Highland Gathering at Maclean over the Easter Weekend. “The Scottish festival saw one of the biggest crowds for many years,” Dale Rodgers, spokesperson for the band, told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The...
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CHANGE Makers is a new program focusing on youth-driven change launched by OzGREEN. The first six-week course starts on Tuesday 2 May and runs until 27 June, every Tuesday 4pm-5.30pm at the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Coffs Harbour. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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DELIVERING a live music night to remember, The Terrys rocked the stage at Jetty Beach House on Friday 31 March, giving an unforgettable performance to a crowd of enthusiastic music lovers. Opening acts Blind Pretty and The Moving Stills set the tone for the night, where the audience was treated to an evening of high-energy...
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BELLINGEN photographer Barney Maple has opened an exhibition of his fine art photography at the National Cartoon Gallery, The exhibition, Dawn Till Dusk, is showing at The Bunker from 4 April to 4 June, and already receiving acclaim that Barney describes as “overwhelmingly inspiring”. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia’s economic transition away from the neoliberal West and integration with what it calls the “World Majority” in the Global South. By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson. In this episode of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour, economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss Russia’s economic transition away from the neoliberal Continue Reading
The post Sitting on the Shoulders of Global Fracture first appeared on Michael Hudson.A HANDS-ON two-day agricultural industry tour around the Mid North Coast, a region chosen for its experience of recent storms and floods, saw 26 careers advisors and teachers soak up lived experience of working on the land and with the land. The Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia (PIEFA) hosted the professional development field trip on...
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“Do we really need a man in a dress reading fairytales to children?”
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After nine years of Coalition failure, the Albanese Government has an opportunity to lead the world on alternative affordable housing. read now...Why is the Pentagon budget so high? On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024, the largest ask (in today’s dollars) since the peaks of the Afghan and Iraq wars. And mind you, that’s before the hawks in Congress get their hands on it. Last year, they added $35 billion to the administration’s request and, this year, their add-on is likely to prove at least that big. Given that American forces aren’t even officially at war right now (if you don’t count those engaged in counter-terror operations in Africa and elsewhere), what explains so much military spending? The answer offered by senior Pentagon officials and echoed in mainstream Washington media coverage is that... Read more
