6/08/2008 | THE closure of the pet food factory is a disaster for Inverell. However, an understanding of how large companies work makes it a very likely possibility. The US is littered with examples of this kind of big-business strategy.
6/08/2008 | IT IS time something was done regarding supermarket trolleys. I thought the trolleys were provided for use within the shopping complex, not to be taken home then left on the street for the louts to destroy or throw over the bridge.
6/08/2008 | I presume from our PM’s “celebrity” trips overseas he has acquired a virus that has left him deaf, dumb, blind, and somewhat paralytic. In the process of his travels he must have spent all the funds which has left him immune to the pleas of pensioners who have found it impossible to live under their current pittance. Also, his biggest con trick was to procure the $500 awarded to the electorate by Peter Costello, and make it appear as though this is a Labor coup. Do I make myself clear Mr Rudd?
6/08/2008 | THE Inverell community is in an ideal position to fight back against the multi-national corporations that come in, confiscate a productive business then destroy the brand after transferring all production to another plant.
6/08/2008 | THE decision by BHP Billiton to narrow the focus of their exploration for coal on the Liverpool Plains might make some sleep easier at night, but it does not answer the burning question: will coal mining affect or even destroy the underground aquifer systems the area is renowned for?
5/08/2008 | IF readers would like an interesting view of the future I’ve got a new blog up on the internet. Just Google Invader to Australia: visions and
prophecies.
5/08/2008 | THE annual general meeting of Bingara and District Vision 20/20 will be held at the Roxy Theatre at 6.30pm on Friday, August 15. The AGM will be followed by dinner at 7.30pm, presentations about our current projects, and general discussion.
5/08/2008 | YOU forgot the banks (Jim Shanks, letter July 28, 2008, NDL) , who are of the Fabian menace.
1. Sir Joseph Stamp, one time director of the Bank of England said: “The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever intended.
5/08/2008 | 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 Australian Foundation for the Peoples of Asia and the Pacific (AFAP).
5/08/2008 | A DECISION by early opening liquor outlets in and around Tamworth to withhold alcohol from sale until 9am each day is common sense in its simplest form.
1/08/2008 | BORAL Timbers is going to have to fish or cut bait. Its apparent plan to close down the Walcha mill it bought less than four years ago, while sitting on the timber licences so no one else can come in to generate new jobs in place of the old, is morally reprehensible.
30/07/2008 | STEVE, your song Bring It On brought tears to my eyes. I am one of the farmers last week who have been at the Duddy’s property.
30/07/2008 | THE railway the safe way
That was a slogan our railways, used in past years. Our forefathers had vision and planned for a rail system covering the State.
30/07/2008 | WITH the new minimum wage rising for the lowest paid workers $22 per week, how is it with a booming economy and surplus terms of trade is it that they can only be afforded such a measly pay rise?
30/07/2008 | THE decision by BHP Billiton to conduct mining exploration in the Liverpool Plains raises a number of complex political, environmental and social issues that are at variance with our system of parliamentary democracy.
30/07/2008 | FISCALSTAR, a self-appointed local government rating agency, has released its annual findings on “the good, the bad and the ugly” among NSW councils.
29/07/2008 | AUSTRALIA is facing the biggest test of all time, and it will take sustained pressure to bring it to heel.
29/07/2008 | I AM writing with regard to the ongoing blockade of BHP Billiton contracted drilling rigs at Caroona.
29/07/2008 | What has to be done to get all of our politicians, together with all of their parties, to wake up. Over the last 50 years water management has deteriorated, the situation has gone from poor management to ruinous management.
29/07/2008 | TAMWORTH wore its heart on its sleeve yesterday when 35 residents – many of them no spring chickens – braved a cold, wet and gusty day to lay happy wanderer Chris Spence to rest.