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The rate cut that wasn't

08 Feb 12 | Yesterday's predicted fireworks, expected to follow an anticipated cut in official interest rates, fizzed when the Reserve Bank declined to cut.

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Taking it from the street

08 Feb 12 | There is a solution to the problem of congested streets around Westfield Kotara. |

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Labor and leadership

07 Feb 12 | With Federal Parliament about to resume, the Australian Labor Party is celebrating the release of a new opinion poll showing improved support for Prime Minister Julia Gillard. |

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Time to book a cleaner

07 Feb 12 | I hope Newcastle City Council has provided a budget for cleaning the library building now that the figs are gone. |

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06 Feb 12 | I didn't see the Ashley Presbury letter (‘‘Learn the Koori culture’’ 1/2) that Jaye Quinlan refers to (Short takes 3/2) but even if she is not old enough to have been around, Ms Quinlan must have heard of the riot at the Star Hotel.

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Hunter youth shelter crisis

06 Feb 12 | Working out how much crisis accommodation a community needs is no easy job. |

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Parents in the playgrounds

03 Feb 12 | In years gone by the common negative observations about schoolground behaviour related to unruly pupils. |

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We’re looking ordinary

03 Feb 12 | I think the people of the Hunter are being dudded by outside forces with more money than sense. |

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Two items, four prices

02 Feb 12 | WHEN shopping at Woolworths Kotara recently I noticed prices on two different vegetables showed certain anomalies. |

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Donations for democracy

02 Feb 12 | Australian democracy has many friends. And many of them are willing to back their fondness for representative government with substantial financial contributions. |

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Finale for the fig tree fight

01 Feb 12 | After years of bitter fighting over the fate of the Laman Street figs, the end came yesterday with more of a whimper than a bang. |

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Learn the Koori culture

01 Feb 12 | I, too, agree with Margaret Priest (‘‘Who taught these children to hate?’’ Letters 31/1). |

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Land project has merit

31 Jan 12 | At first glance, Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council’s $650million plan for a major industrial and employment estate on the boundary of Lake Macquarie and Wyong seems a winning plan. |

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Dogged by high prices

31 Jan 12 | Because of the recent constant raining I called a local dog wash to wash my dog. |

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Show holiday debate, again

30 Jan 12 | AS regular as clockwork, the debate about a public holiday for the Newcastle Show comes around each year. |

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Mind driven off the road

30 Jan 12 | I AM fed up with drivers talking and texting on mobile phones while driving – placing my life at risk. |

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Legacies of Tinkler plan

29 Jan 12 | Nathan Tinkler’s controversial proposal for a new coal-loader on the former BHP steelworks site at Mayfield had the Hunter coal industry in a flap. |

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Check car before filling

29 Jan 12 | FROM July, the Biofuels Act will require that regular unleaded petrol in NSW be replaced with E10, ethanol blended with unleaded petrol. |

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Bad blood on national day

27 Jan 12 | Vivid images of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, visibly frightened, being shepherded away from aggressive protesters in Canberra on Australia Day will hardly do wonders for racial harmony. |

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A fake, failing industry

27 Jan 12 | IF the argument can be made that the taxpayer must contribute to support enterprises that cannot be allowed to fail, then the argument can be made that the taxpayer should own or part-own the same enterprises. |

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