We will now have many lost car spaces and traffic flow issues from moving the depository to inside the main carpark. This will be a huge mistake to appease a few residents over noise concerns from 8am to 8pm. Clearly they must not think RAAF planes at 9pm are noisy.

I would like to challenge someone from the real estate industry to explain to the residents of Port Stephens as to why real estate is seemingly the main industry to ignore 'no junk mail' signs on residents' mail boxes?

I don't care if a real estate agent managed to sell a house in my neighborhood, I don't block up their offices telling them about my job. Please don't tell me they have no control over the pamphlet drop like one such agent dared, real estate agents commission and fund the drop so would have full control of how it is done.

I read the article by Ellen Roberts in the Port Stephens Examiner (Opinion, May 20) about the proposal to charge a fee when we export excess clean electricity from our solar systems into the grid.

I too, am more than likely to disconnect from the grid and use my own power.

So are water companies going to bring in a rain tax for lost revenue due to the requirement that new houses have rain water tanks installed to collect rainwater?

Hear, hear to Solar Citizens opposing restrictions and/or charges for everyday home solar owners to export their clean electricity (Examiner, Opinion, 20 May).

The Australian Energy Market Operator suggests that daytime production could be stored and sold in the evening. It doesn't mention, however, that the only ways to do this are with a home battery or via a vehicle-to-grid system to/from an electric car battery, both of which cost upward of $10,000 - roughly two to three times what the panels cost.

Even if either 'solution' were remotely affordable, individual homes are not sensible or efficient locations to store excess (cheap) production anyway. Instead, grid-operators (who know where they are needed) should be incentivised to set up smart, local, battery farms to accept and redistribute power as needed.

Such systems should be scalably designed to take as much clean energy as households can ever produce and increased production should be enthusiastically rewarded, not punished. Grid operators should be able to turn a profit from this more responsible 'future-proofing'.

But if not, then those companies still profiting from producing 72 per cent of Australia's electricity by burning coal and gas should be taxed to pay for upgrades, not solar citizens.

Firstly, I agree with George Anderson on 'Just get on with the job' (Letters, Examiner, May 13).

On that note, I congratulate those volunteered for the 7-day makeover of part of Medowie town centre. I remember years ago former Mayor Craig Baumann helped to build the community hall, and Vale Councillor Geoff Dingle regularly maintained the Tidy Town centre.

It's a fine tradition of getting on with the job by many Medowiens. Secondly, I do believe that Councillor Giacomo Arnott has been getting on with the job for his community in West Ward, and for Port Stephens on many issues. His first term on council has been worthy of local government, Labour, Liberal or Independent.

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