It cannot have escaped your notice dear reader that there seems a growing trend for tearing things down. It is a trend that, to use modern parlance, has “gone viral”. Everywhere, it seems, people are rushing to tear down or...
Read MoreAn observant reader informs Topical that the 1979 movie Mad Max, which depicts a world in ruins and lawlessness, was set 40 years in the future when it was made – that is, about 2020.
Read More“Nowadays, of course, we don’t have bouts of heavy rain any more,” a reader tells Topical. ‘We have ‘rain bombs.’ I have seen heavy rains along Australia’s east coast now routinely described, mainly by overseas news media, as...
Read More“One person’s crisis is another person’s joke evidently” a correspondent says. “Daily we are seeing reports of police charges against people deliberately flouting the COVID-19 health regulations. At the Prime Minister’s press...
Read MoreThumbs up to the letter writer (The Courier July 30) re: Narrabri gas project and supporting our town. He’s spot on. The silent majority must speak up.
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