While a number of Councillors, mostly new Councillors, have grand-standed to the public and the press on a number of issues, I have stayed silent since the Council election in early September in the hope that things would settle down, and Councillors would be able to work together positively and amicably for the good of [...]
Phillip Machin’s article; ‘Who’s eating the green stuff?’ should be appreciated by animal lovers. It’s good to see facts for a change. However, farmers are farmers and, although kangaroos are something special, they are not always appreciated. But there are ways of controlling them and other wildlife humanely. One of them is the use of the [...]
In 2011 when Armidale Dumaresq Council (ADC) first mooted the idea of introducing electronic timed parking in the CBD of Armidale, I had concerns that the type of parking monitoring system which the Council was about to implement would be detrimental to business in the town. Council’s own specialist advice on the amount of available [...]
Sometimes it feels as though one is looking at a Richard Torbay family photo album when they open the Independent newspaper. More often then not he appears multiple times in the one edition! Fair enough, he may be photogenic, he may be busy attending all these local community events, and he may need the publicity, [...]
Sat down to read the Independent to find it was the Medieval times instead! Can’t believe that people still think that you “can get close to Jesus though a relicâ€. Luther must be turning over in his grave. What must the rest of this missionary feel, knowing that the right arm, and only the right [...]
Those who think that a royal commission into child sexual abuse will be able to weed out the practice, are engaged in wishful thinking, especially when one considers that our society has been moving towards one that has a strong resemblance to that of pagan Rome as it was up to 312 AD, the year [...]