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MAKE sure you have working smoke alarms; it’s the biggest lifesaver in structure fires. That is the message from Acting Station Officer Tim George from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) Coffs Harbour. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us...

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A COFFS HARBOUR resident who hails from Myanmar says a lifelong desire to join the Army motivated him to become a part time soldier. “I was born in Myanmar, Chin state,” said Private Mesak Hlawng Sang from the 41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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Many American undergraduates in Economics interested in doing a Ph.D. are surprised to learn that the first year of an Econ Ph.D. feels much more like entering a Ph.D. in solving mathematical models by hand than it does with learning economics. Typically, there is very little reading or writing involved, but loads and loads of […]

A GOLD standard specialist service to benefit people living with Parkinson’s and other movement disorders launched in Coffs Harbour on Friday 8 September. “This means patients in and around Coffs Harbour now have access to the best movement disorder specialists in the world right on their doorstep,” said Mid North Coast Local Health District’s acting...

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BUILDING works have begun at Coffs Harbour Kart Racing Club with sights set on being completed by the end of February 2024. The project is being carried out to upgrade the Coffs facility to receive national status. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us –...

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104.1 CHYFM is once again running its John Townsend Golf Classic fundraiser on Sunday 15 October at the Sawtell Golf Club. Launched last year to great success, it’s a vital money-maker for the not-for-profit, fully independent community radio station which runs on the goodwill, hard work, passion and dedication of volunteers and staff and the...

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TO celebrate Spring, the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour Daybreak, in conjunction with the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, is inviting you to their sixth Japanese Lantern Festival and Feast on Saturday 21 October. The Festival will be set in the Japanese Waterside Pavilion, which will be bathed in the light of the moon and...

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The nation’s most popular public health care program is under attack — so here’s what we need to do.

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The massively corrupt Texas GOP AG Ken Paxton was acquitted in his impeachment trial today. They just can’t quit him. But the Texas GOP is at each others’ throats and it’s going to be a bloodbath. But that’s not unusual. The inmates are running the asylum everywhere and even the power brokers and the money men seem to be impotent in the face of it. Even among those Party leaders who cast their lot with Trump in the lead-up to the 2020 election, very few are still with him: NBC News surveyed forty-four of Trump’s former Cabinet members and found that just four supported his reëlection.

I’m shocked. It was only a matter of time before this clash manifested somewhere: This city of 28,000 was once so Polish it was dubbed “Little Warsaw.” But in recent decades, an influx of immigrants gave Hamtramck new character. Bengali and Arabic joined English on signs at City Hall. Yemeni and Bangladeshi mosques, restaurants and shops proliferated. And last year, a Muslim who emigrated from Yemen as a teenager became mayor — the city’s first leader in nearly a century with no Polish roots — alongside what is believed to be the nation’s only all-Muslim city council. Many residents in this tiny enclave just north of downtown Detroit saw these changes as a sign of the Hamtramck’s progressiveness. The Muslim community that had previously experienced discrimination, including voter intimidation and resistance to mosques’ public call to prayer, had finally taken its seats at the table. Yet the ethnic, cultural and religious diversity that made Hamtramck something of a model is being put severely to the test.

Or maybe she just sees a new career move: Jenna Ellis – the Donald Trump lawyer who like the former president faces criminal charges regarding attempted election subversion in his defeat by Joe Biden in 2020 – says she will not vote for him in the future because he is a “malignant narcissist” who cannot admit mistakes. “I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis said. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.” Ellis, 38, was speaking on her show on American Family Radio, a rightwing evangelical network run by the American Family Association, a non-profit that by its own description has been “on the frontlines of America’s culture war” since 1977. Ellis was one of 18 Trump associates charged with him in Georgia over attempts to overturn Biden’s victory there. Charged with violating state anti-racketeering laws and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer, she was granted $100,000 bail and pleaded not guilty.

There is no more important issue in Australian taxation reform than replacing current arrangements by efficient mineral rent taxation. That requires large analytic effort and effective political leadership. Success would bring high rewards to the Australian polity, and I expect electoral rewards to the Government that is seen as being responsible for a good outcome. Continue reading »

Doesn’t matter how much harm fossil fuels cause, governments have an ‘Everlasting Love’ for subsidising them, so no surprise that coal and oil consumption is increasing. The global love affair with electricity started in 1950.   Fossil fuel subsidies keep increasing According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the optimal (or efficient) price of fossil Continue reading »

Can regulation of Biotechnology provide clues for the regulatory measures now required to limit risks in the use of AI? Already, digital technologies have permeated most corners of human activities, with some good and some bad effects. Now, global authorities are trying to introduce some form of regulation to rein in the riskiest products launched Continue reading »

If you don’t know about the voice, dont just say No! If you don’t know About The Voice Don’t just say ‘No!’ Or maybe guess, Perhaps say, ‘Yes?’ Go to that link, Read, have a think, Then make your choice About The Voice! PS I must confess My vote is, ‘YES!’ Be ready to vote Continue reading »

Discussion of the tenure of senior officials in the Australian public service continues in P&I, with some former officials recently pointing to the difficulty of giving the fabled “frank and fearless” advice when contracts may not be renewed. Others maintain that they retained autonomy under the current regime. Chris Wallace argues that a reversion to Continue reading »

In previous articles, I’ve articulated why I adopted a skeptical and analytical mindset from a young age, particularly in the realm of geopolitical claims made by nation-states in the nuclear age. Now, let’s shift our focus to China’s nuclear strategy. China, recognising that it couldn’t feasibly compete in the ongoing nuclear arms race, chose a Continue reading »

South Korea is among the nations with the highest coal power generation. South Korean government is moving ahead to launch commercial operation of the Samcheok coal power plant in Gangwon-do province in October defying opposition from civil society groups and the Catholic Church. Since October 2021, Catholic groups have been staging protests every month at Continue reading »

A new BBC One "glitch" appears to have confirmed next Saturday for a Doctor Who 60th Anniversary preview; #WhoSpy drops a new teaser image.

With the ongoing hysteria over Biden’s age, it’s long past time to look more closely at Trump’s mental gyrations which are much more indicative of a disordered mind which, along with his massive psychological defects, is getting worse every day. Here are some examples from this weekend alone. Watch this whole thing to see him try in vain to pretend he didn’t stumble and becomes even more incoherent. It’s pathetic. Trump: As you know, crooked Joe Biden and the radical left thugs who have weaponized law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent that leading by a lot, including Obama pic.twitter.com/T5mx6LhH5D — Acyn (@Acyn) September 16, 2023 “You have voted ID to buy a loaf of bread” — Trump still doesn’t know how buying groceries works pic.twitter.com/XI61Qva8yA — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2023   You know people have told him that isn’t true and the press has certainly covered this as a gaffe. It’s not the only way to express this concept. He could say that you have to show ID to get on an airplane, for instance.