An announcement in mid-May by the Federal Government that it will spend up to $600 million to build a new gas-fired power station at Kurri Kurri was the trigger for the owners of the former Hydro Aluminium smelter site at Kurri Kurri to move ahead with their plans to develop the 2,000 ha site. Acquired by property developers Stevens Group and McCloy Group in 2020 it is proposed to create a masterplanned, mixed use urban development with over 2,000 new residential homesites and a major indus...

It attracted some of Australia's best stunt pilots, a fly over by a F35A fighter jet on both days of the show, a display by the Roulettes -the RAAF's aerobatic display team from Point Cook in Victoria and well over 20,000 people over two days. The Inaugural Central Coast Airshow held on the weekend of May 22nd and 23rd proved beyond all doubt the true value of the Central Coast Airport and which could well become an annual event. A collaboration between the Central Coast Aero Cl...

While ratepayers across the Central Coast continue to argue the case against rate increases and property sales no one appears to have been listening to outgoing Administrator Dick Persson AM or the new Administrator Rik Hart in trying to understand the dire situation that the Council was driven to over the past two years. That ratepayers continue to campaign against an increase of 15%, which IPART has approved but for only three years is an indicator of the irresponsible attitudes of poli...

The Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Assistant Minister for Electoral Matters and Assistance Minister to the Minister for the Public Service, the Hon Ben Morton MP, visited the Central Coast on the 14th May, and was special guest of the Gosford Erina Business Chamber where he gave an overview of the Federal Budget. Mr Morton made the point that at the start of COVID the effective unemployment rate peaked at 15%. "More Australians are in work today than before C...