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Get checked, Diabetes Week

AS WE approach National Diabetes Week it’s the perfect time to educate ourselves on the growing impact of diabetes in our community and what can be done to improve our health outcomes. Diabetes is now one of the leading drivers of serious health...

Strength in inclusion

WITH the invention of the internet it is said we live in a global village. Others have commented on the so-called six degrees of separation to describe the interconnected world we now live in. With the abandonment of the white Australia policy, we...

Climate change driving prices

AUSTRALIANS are making the connection between climate change and rising food prices – and they’re right to. A recent Farmers for Climate Action poll of 1000 Australians found that 65 per cent believe climate change is a major factor driving up...

Woke agenda had its day, he says

YOUR editorial commentary on some community reaction to the Ngangga Festival in the letters section of your July 8 edition seems to assume that the inevitable and predetermined arrow of history is somehow linear in its quasi-Marxist race notion of...