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Restaurateur serves up new Nobbys plan
4:00 AM AEDT | NEWCASTLE restaurateur Neil Slater has submitted new plans for a restaurant on Nobbys headland in a last-ditch effort to keep the project alive. Under the revised proposal, the lighthouse keeper'...  | CommentsComments (25)
4:00 AM AEDT | WORK has started on a $120 million 800-lot subdivision at Singleton, the town's first major residential development in about 30 years. The project, a joint venture between Singleton Council and Bri...  | CommentsComments (1)
Teen charged over Raymond Terrace gas blast
4:00 AM AEDT | A TEENAGE boy has been charged over a gas explosion that rocked Raymond Terrace and damaged a council building that housed several community groups. A Raymond Terrace boy, 14, was charged yesterday...
Millennium visitors splash out in the Hunter
4:00 AM AEDT | AS well as introducing 2000 passengers and several hundred crew to Newcastle yesterday, the Millennium brought a $500,000 jackpot to the region. A clear and warm morning greeted the passengers and crew as the liner docked just after 6am at Dyke Point.   | CommentsComments (3) | Plush postcode oceans away from ...
Plush postcode oceans away from reality
4:00 AM AEDT | WHILE many in Newcastle are facing the end of their summer break, the holidaymakers who cruised in on the Millennium yesterday could give lessons on how to do it in style. The 296-metre liner accommodates 2000 passengers in opulence, offering all the modern comforts of a five-star hotel.   | Millennium visitors splash out ...
Valley scorcher but rare fog blankets coast
4:00 AM AEDT | IT was a day of extremes in the Hunter Valley yesterday with the region experiencing soaring temperatures of more than 40 degrees and a rare sea fog blanketing Nobbys and the city centre for most of t...  | Helicopter called to fight ...
Surfers see shark off city beach
4:00 AM AEDT | SURFERS spotted a shark near the group of rocks known as Big Ben off Nobbys Head yesterday. A dorsal fin about 20 metres from the surfers was enough for them to return to shore at 7am and prompt po...  | CommentsComments (6)
Bail refused on armed robbery counts
4:00 AM AEDT | A MAN accused of holding up Hexham Bowling Club was charged yesterday with three more armed robberies, including one on the same club six days earlier. The Medowie man, 23, was charged with 15 offe...
4:00 AM AEDT | A FAMILY'S effort to cool off amid yesterday's scorching temperatures in the Upper Hunter turned to tragedy when their nine-year-old son drowned in a backyard pool. The boy, who was physically and mentally disabled, w...  | CommentsComments (1)
4:00 AM AEDT | EXTRA resources, including helicopters and specialist fire teams, were called in yesterday to help battle a large bushfire in a remote area of Howes Valley, south of Singleton. The fire broke its c...  | Valley scorcher but rare fog ...
We're hooked on cruise ships
4:00 AM AEDT | YOUNG Ji Forbes, of Kurri Kurri, watches as cruise ship Millennium departs Newcastle Harbour late yesterday after a stopover in the city. Most of the 2000 passengers and half the 1000 crew came ashore, with Blackbutt Reserve a popular destination.   | Millennium visitors splash out ... | Plush postcode oceans away from ...
6/01/2009 | SPECIALIST fire teams have been flown in to contain a bushfire that is burning in a remote area of the Howes Valley, south of Singleton.
6/01/2009 | A LARGE search for an amateur prawn fisherman was called off this morning after he turned up on the banks of Lake Macquarie more than three hours after witnesses saw his boat overturn.  | CommentsComments (4)
6/01/2009 | A MAN, 21, is in a serious condition in hospital with multiple leg fractures after his utility flipped and struck a power pole at Greta last night.  | CommentsComments (1)
Train survivor's father warns young Hunter drinkers
6/01/2009 | AS he recovers in hospital after being hit by a train in the early hours of New Year's Day, Sean Young is beginning to realise how lucky he is to be alive. The Merewether 18-year-old does not remem...  | CommentsComments (3)
Why I quit Footy Show: Paul
6/01/2009 | PAUL "the Chief" Harragon has declared it's game over after 14 years on Channel Nine's ailing NRL Footy Show. Following news the rugby league program would undergo a massive overhaul for 2009 after...  | CommentsComments (10)
Temperatures teeter towards 40 degrees
6/01/2009 | NO time was wasted testing the water yesterday. Novocastrians plunged into popular Hunter swim spots without hesitation, desperate to keep cool as temperatures teetered towards 40 degrees. At W...  | CommentsComments (5)
6/01/2009 | A WOMAN charged with killing her partner in the shower on Christmas Day phoned her mother and said "Can you come over and get him before I slit his throat?", police alleged in an affidavit to a Gosfor...
Support for Scrubby Creek clean-up
6/01/2009 | CLEAN-UP Australia Day founder Ian Kiernan has thrown his weight behind a push to clean up the Hunter's most degraded stretch of waterway, Lake Macquarie's Scrubby Creek. He said two decades of com...  | CommentsComments (8)
More marinas launched to keep up with boat mania
6/01/2009 | BOAT registrations have risen 40 per cent in a decade in Lake Macquarie and the Hunter, sparking a rush of plans for new and expanded marinas. More than 20,000 boats were registered in Lake Macquar...  | CommentsComments (6) | Anglers risk fines as licences ...
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Letting parents vote with their feet on school choice doesn't add up

16/12/2008 | So we now have desperate parents attempting to bribe teachers to get their children into a selective high school. What a sad indictment of our education policies, the holy grail of which is parental choice.
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