4:39 PM AEST | The recent Caroona Coal Project Interim Report has been written in an illusory way which gives the trusting public the impression that BHP is no longer interested in mining under the black soil floodplains or in conducting any open cut mining around Caroona.
20/08/2008 | I WOULD like to draw attention to an intent by the current Tamworth Regional Council to sell off an area of land adjoining the Tamworth Cemetery and bounded by Jewry St and the Showground Rd, for industrial purposes.
20/08/2008 | I am pleased that the Viewpoint article (The Leader, August 14, 2008), written by New England Regional Director Des Gorman entitled “Staffing System not dismantled”, is in the opinion page of the paper and is, therefore, not masquerading as fact.
19/08/2008 | DR David Evans was a consultant to the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1999 to 2005.
19/08/2008 | I AM bewildered why abysmal ex-Labor PM Paul Keating finds it necessary to make derogatory remarks about various notable personalities from time to time. This time it is Kevin Rudd, for whom I hold no brief.
19/08/2008 | TATIANA Kolesova (second prize winner Sydney International Piano Competition) charmed and enchanted with poetic magnetism an enthusiastic group of music lovers at the Tamworth Regional Conservatorium of Music on Friday night.
19/08/2008 | IT would be absolutely criminal to allow coal mining to go ahead in the Caroona area. This area contains some of the best agricultural land in the world.
19/08/2008 | BETTY White, I know not your age, but I presume that like thousands of men and women who suffered hunger and hardship, throughout the Depression,
15/08/2008 | AH ... the saga of the ducks (NDL August 11). There’s more to the story, you know.
15/08/2008 | I think that a certain person who has thrown his hat into the council election ring should seriously rethink that decision.
15/08/2008 | SINCE the 1960s Australian governments have been obsessed with reducing tariffs.
13/08/2008 | RE: The Thumbs Down in The Tamworth Times on August 6 referring to the duck which was killed in Jewry Street, apparently by a driver who didn’t attempt to miss it.
13/08/2008 | YOUR correspondent, Andrew Williams, (NDL August 7, 2008) is on to something when he suggests that “It’s about time farmers and graziers did collude with the Greens and started caring for our whole amazing environment.”
13/08/2008 | HOW does the song go ..? “Some people I know think that I’m crazy ...”
August 13 has become the “official” international birthday for being left-handed (see http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html).
13/08/2008 | THE buzzword of this parliament is “change”.
Candidates toss it around without saying what they want to change to.
12/08/2008 | I cannot honestly believe that Dr Nikki Williams (Viewpoint NDL August 11) could possibly compare the agricultural resources, or for that matter the productivity of the Liverpool Plains to a small purpose built experimental vineyard in a coal mining area of the Hunter Valley.
12/08/2008 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank The Northern Daily Leader for your newspaper’s wonderful support of our members in their efforts to fundraise for The Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific Ltd (AFAP).
12/08/2008 | MAY I please give my opinion on Jamie Oliver’s Fowl Dinners Show, and answer his critics.
8/08/2008 | CONGRATULATIONS to Cherina Murphy-Christian. It was finally good to see Cherina being acknowledged for her sport (NDL, August 7).
8/08/2008 | THE use by The Leader, in fact many newspapers, of the terms 12am and 12pm, meaning either noon or midnight, is incorrect and confusing.
We see in the Olympic program ... reference to events being held at 11am, followed by events at 12pm, apparently intended to mean the hour after 11am.