POLICE have issued an appeal for public assistance to help locate a Raymond Terrace teenager who went missing ...
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VIDEO: Grierson farewells politics
UPDATED: Tinkler sells out of Whitehaven
Man breaks leg chasing burglar
A MAN has suffered a badly broken leg chasing a burglar out of his Bar Beach house on ...
POLL, GALLERY: Newcastle port privatised in return for light rail
Council cuts 90 jobs, The Loft, lifeguards
Sex pest caught driving, masturbating, gets jail
A CONVICTED sex offender caught driving and masturbating at the same time near one of Newcastle’s busiest beaches ...
BUDGET: Long-term revival plan for CBD
THE revitalisation of the Newcastle CBD will be driven by a long-term lease of the Port of Newcastle ...
BUDGET: Business upbeat over rail decision
Call to keep Medicare Local CEO Mark Foster
HUNTER Medicare Local staff and members are calling on the board to reinstate outgoing chief executive officer Dr ...
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National
High Court throws out challenge to alcohol ban
The High Court has accepted an indigenous woman's argument that alcohol restrictions on a Queensland island targeted indigenous ...
VIDEO: Bayley jailed for 35 years for Jill Meagher's rape, murder
Adrian Ernest Bayley has been sentenced for the rape and murder of Jill Meagher on Wednesday morning.
NAPLAN agency blames teachers, principals for turning exams into high-stakes test
The agency in charge of national literacy and numeracy tests has blamed principals and teachers for pressuring students to do ...
Defence hit with another internet sex scandal
Australian Defence Force investigating whether serving military personnel are linked to offensive Facebook pages that included grossly sexist and anti-Muslim ...
PNG 'dirty money' trail leads to Australia
Millions of dollars allegedly corruptly obtained from the PNG government siphoned to Australian banks, confidential banking documents reveal.
Frontline services will be hit: unions
Unions are warning that frontline services across the state are at risk after NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced ...
World
US media mourns gun young reporter
He reported from war zones and brought down a top American general with a hard-hitting profile. But now ...
Serena shamed over rape blame game
One of the people responsible for bringing the details of a teenage rape case to public attention says she is ...
Coulson bailed over perjury
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former communications chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury.
Language please: Merkel wants more German spoken in EU
Angela Merkel's conservatives want to increase the use of German in Europe if they are re-elected in September, ...
Business
'Big step' for whistleblowers
Whistleblowers stand to receive more protection - but the new laws passed in Parliament today don't apply to the private ...
Ben Bernanke's challenge
Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke must shape investor expectations about the future course of Fed policy amid growing signs that ...
ASIC dances around the real questions
Perhaps the most annoying tactic in the black art of public relations these days is to respond to ...
Six questions start-ups must ask
You can learn a huge amount from business failure.
'Dumb Ways to Die' wins big at Cannes
Dumb Ways to Die, a catchy public service announcement from Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, won the Grand ...
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Politics
Liberal MP to cross floor in support of gay equality
Retiring Liberal Senator Sue Boyce will cross the floor to vote for a change that would make it illegal for ...
PM planning trip for talks with Indonesia
Julia Gillard planning trip in two weeks to discuss directly with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ways of stemming rising flow ...
Rudd the Kim Kardashian of politics, says Wyatt Roy
Liberal MP Wyatt Roy has accused former prime minister Kevin Rudd of adopting "a Kim Kardashian style of politics" and ...
Sri Lanka calls for Tamil refugees to return home
Sri Lanka's external affairs minister has pleaded with Tamil refugees in Australia who fled the nation's bloody civil war to ...