Daylight saving time
In about a week’s time the old argument will be on again about Daylight Saving Time.
A study of its history is very interesting. It...
Proposed rezoning of AHS land
I am amazed and disappointed to read of the moves by Armidale Dumaresq Council to rezone land currently used for agriculture and environmental education...
Senator Cory Bernardi
So freedom of speech is no longer a value of the Liberal Party - that is the only conclusion that I can reach following...
Got a spare 40 million dollars?
Apparently the Australian tax payers have it to spare. Gillard’s regime has spent at least that amount in an attempt to obtain a non-permanent...
Our wishes are secondary to the party machine
It’s interesting how the rhetoric of our nominally independent Mr Richard Torbay has changed since aligning himself with the National Party. In a recent...
Party politics
The other Armidale newspaper recently held a poll which found that ‘most people’ are against party politics in council (24 September). I should have...
Governance failure
Failure to pass the Gay Marriage legislation by the Federal Parliament and now the withdrawal of the proposed Referendum on removal of race clauses...
Thank you
As Founder and Chief Executive Offer of Youth Off The Streets, I would like to thank everyone who attended our Scholarship Award Ceremony on...
CSG Terra-ism
On Wednesday, September 19, I attended an education evening about the dangers of coal seam gas mining on our environment. The meeting took place...
A surplus at what cost
Governments around the world are usually voted in an out on the economy - except in Australia.
Here, we have Labor with record low unemployment,...
No mandate
I was amused to hear Warren Polglase say that he should be Mayor for the Tweed Shire Council because he got the largest share...
Climate Sceptic
As usual our egg-headed scientists have got it wrong again, they said the sun orbited a flat earth and to even think of continental...