DEAR News Of The Area, I THINK electing independents at the upcoming election will strengthen Parliamentary democracy as legislation has a better chance of being improved and balanced if it can’t be just rubber stamped. I am looking for someone who will not only run a positive campaign but a willingness to follow a transparent […]

THE Member for Oxley Michael Kemp appears to be the National’s new kid on the block when it comes to justifying native forest logging in our coastal forests. Repeating the same old National Party mantra over and over again doesn’t make it true. He would do well to read David Lindenmayer’s ‘The Forest Wars’, an […]