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NSW Labor soap opera

02 Sep 10 | NSW Labor's soap opera would be funny if it wasn't so serious |

02 Sep 10 | IF the GPT development had gone ahead, large trucks would doubtless have been travelling along Hunter Street - at up to 60km/h - to supply the centre. Few would suggest that that would be dangerous. |

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A two-speed economy

01 Sep 10 | Treasury and Reserve bank officials have been warning for a few years at least of the dangers of a "two-speed economy" in which one sector races ahead while others languish.

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It’s city v country again

01 Sep 10 | THE railway is a suburban and regional issue and cannot be subject to the whims of people wealthy enough to live in inner Newcastle. Residents of greater Newcastle, the Hunter and Lake Macquarie don’t |

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An extra million trucks

31 Aug 10 | DURING a recent radio interview discussing the infrastructure shortfall in the lower Hunter, it was mentioned that after the planned container terminal is completed on the old BHP steelworks site, up |

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Time to stop the arguing

27 Aug 10 | NOVOCASTRIANS who visited the Newcastle Herald website yesterday made it clear they want an end to the destructive bickering that is paralysing their city.

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Heat on the sceptics

24 Aug 10 | THERE are about 14 million voters in Australia and less than 20,000, or 0.14 per cent, voted for the Climate Sceptics Party on Saturday. |

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Last train out of town

24 Aug 10 | The inability of the NSW government to make a decision on a new rail terminus for Newcastle has cost the city a once-in-a-generation renewal opportunity. |

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A second term for the ALP

20 Aug 10 | SOME recent polling suggests that Labor will be punished by voters at tomorrow's federal election but is more likely than not to win a second term.

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The fight for Paterson

19 Aug 10 | ACCORDING to our exclusive survey of the marginal seat of Paterson, Labor will win the seat by a hair and also win a second term of government.

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Port council out of control

12 Aug 10 | Port Stephens ratepayers are entitled to wonder if their council is losing the plot. |

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Get them off the street

12 Aug 10 | THE organiser of the Cessnock car show has put on some good events and the Revfest event at the Cessnock airport last year was another well-organised event. I go to events all over the state and the S |

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The Hunter coal rush

11 Aug 10 | Newcastle's place at the pointy end of the global surge in demand for energy has never been more obvious than now. |

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Editorial - General

Add up the real benefits

11 Aug 10 | IT is time for an immediate moratorium on any new coalmines and this must include exploration and test drilling. |

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Water fight over rivers

09 Aug 10 | When the NSW government refused the Bickham coalmine proposal this year it promised a new approach to mining approvals that would take proper account of competing land uses. |

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Editorial - General

Fast train to where?

09 Aug 10 | I NOTE that the promise for a proposed very fast train is only for the saving of one hour between Newcastle and Sydney. That assumes the train would run on time. And how many trains a day would there |

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Tax-free ride to go, too

06 Aug 10 | ROBERT Hunter ("End the free ride for church rates" Letters 5/8) correctly identifies the problem of the tax-free status enjoyed by religions. |

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Prognosis for health

06 Aug 10 | The NSW government's discussion paper on implementing federal Labor's proposed reforms of national health funding and administration gives grounds for optimism that the reforms can succeed.

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Fast rail gets federal nod

05 Aug 10 | Invited by the Newcastle Herald some months ago to nominate their top transport priorities, the newspaper's readers put a fast train link to Sydney at the top of their wish-list. |

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This is a bridge too far

05 Aug 10 | WHAT were they thinking of back in the 1970s when they built a four-lane bridge over the Hunter River to Stockton, Fern Bay, Williamtown and Nelson Bay? |

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