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Paul Scott: Why these Hunter runners are odds-on for a headline AND they're racing. Forget those Melbourne shenanigans - after all, what is Melbourne but Newcastle with useful trams and a crap city beach? The 2022 Novocastrian Cup form guide is set out below. Please gamble responsibly when laundering money at your local club or pub. → Read More
> How hard can it be? We are the City of Newcastle not the Town of Newcastle. CITIES where disagreement does not result in a visit from the police, imprisonment, or ostracism experience perennial debates. Newcastle is no different. → Read More
In my opinion a truly progressive council would lose the prayer. → Read More
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A FEW months ago, six people in their late twenties and early thirties who shared a home in Newcastle's inner-city were provided with a no-grounds eviction notice by owners. The six people had been there since May 2020, when the house had become available for annual lease after the pandemic slammed the door shut on short-term holiday stays. → Read More
WE are besieged by difficulties. I too, am frustrated, but have my desires on a wonderful endpoint. There is no issue of abandonment of this exciting project. → Read More
Early doors: Pre-poll voters at Belmont before election day this month. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers > The upward trajectory of early voting remains a concern to political parties. → Read More
Councillors and staff change from time-to-time, but the argument remains the same. → Read More
Government selective when calling Newcastle regional or metro NEWCASTLE and the Upper Hunter come back blue at the next election. That is exactly what is going to happen. → Read More
Petitions demand, but rarely receive, response and action → Read More
Gettting to the bottom of the city's murky ocean baths. → Read More
KNIGHTS members could soon be shelling out for a $349 fine. → Read More
THE BOGEY Hole is a lawless place on Newcastle's coastline. More Bogan than Bogey. More Doggy than Bogan. → Read More
NBN Newsreader Paul Lobb was "let-go" on December 13 after almost 30 years of employment with the station. The decision has generally received poor reception in the viewing area. → Read More
Between HiLux drivers and dodgy footpaths, the city's a dangerous place. → Read More
SUMMERTIME. And the living is easy. So sang the wonderful Ella Fitzgerald. Her version of that song with Louis Armstrong is like a gentle wave of sunshine through the body. → Read More
GLENROCK State Recreation Area is feeling the strain of increased visitation during lockdown. → Read More
EMPTY: Toilet paper shelves at Newcastle supermarkets have been stripped bare again as panic buying followed the re-introduction of COVID-19 restrictions. LIVING in the locky country. Did you get your 200 rolls of bum rub before the stampede? Apparently if you wrap yourself in it, you will live forever. → Read More
Ratbags seem to take pleasure in destroying the joint, and Newcastle is fed up. → Read More
There's nothing objectionable about democracy in action. → Read More