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Premier state for prisons
8:43 AM AEDT |
FOR a state that started its days of European settlement as a penal colony, NSW doesn't seem to have learned much about crime and punishment. This week the state's A...
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Take their toys away
8:43 AM AEDT |
SUPERINTENDENT John Hartley ought to be congratulated on the latest plan to cut the P-plate driver toll ("Confiscate their cars" Herald 5/1). People who engage in street racing should have the...
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Connection to country
6/01/2009 |
THANKING the residents of Tillegra for giving up their land, as Isabel Garde does (Short takes 3/1), displays a lack of information. As a fifth-generation resident of the Williams River Valley, I ...
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A changing environment
6/01/2009 |
ONLY a couple of decades ago the Hunter's heavy industry may have been seen by most people as the biggest threat to the environment and to biodiversity...
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Shelter from the storm
5/01/2009 |
WOMEN'S refuges have been a crucial part of this state's welfare system for more than 30 years, during which time a network of more than 50 refuges has been establishe...
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Just a flash in the pan
5/01/2009 |
HAVING read the story "Scars for life" (Herald 2/1) about an unfortunate girl hit by a flare during the Newcastle Foreshore fireworks display on New Year's Eve, I'm wondering how we can justify spendi...
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Card has little credit
2/01/2009 |
I BELIEVE Cr Aaron Buman's idea of a "Newcastle Card" is poorly argued, divisive and discriminatory ("Citizen card" Herald 29/12). It would place Newcastle residents into two camps: ratepayers and ...
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Merits of the teaching life
2/01/2009 |
THE increasing numbers of baby boomers heading into retirement is likely to pose recruitment problems in a range of vocational and professional areas, not least o...
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Storm without a D-cup
1/01/2009 |
THE fuss about topless females on any beach in Australia in this day and age is ludicrous ("Look at real issues, Fred" Herald 31/12). Thirty-five years ago I was sunning myself topless at the beac...
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The year the bubble burst
1/01/2009 |
FOR many people, 2008 will be seen as the year that the financial bubble well and truly burst. So big is the problem, and so potentially widespread the impacts, tha...
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More fishing inspectors
31/12/2008 |
WHEN the NSW Government introduced recreational fishing licences in 2001 it promised that all of the money raised from them would be used to help manage and protect t...
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A question of survival
31/12/2008 |
THE son of shark-attack victim Brian Guest has a good understanding of the natural order ("Don't hunt dad's killer: son" Herald 29/12). Sharks are not hell-bent on preying on humans. In fact sh...
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Channelling energies
30/12/2008 |
I NOTICED the way United Residents Group for the Environment of Lake Macquarie president Peter Morris dismissed as myths dredging of the channel to improve flushing and, as a consequence, improve migr...
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Seeing value in research
30/12/2008 |
CANBERRA will spend about $50 billion this year on health care, the State Government another $13 billion. While most of it will go to frontline hospital and medical...
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Driving the city forward
29/12/2008 |
THE Hunter Development Corporation has had a big year. The state authority had its hands on about $500 million in city projects over the year and has started work on som...
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More puppy love needed
29/12/2008 |
WE commend recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald by Nick Galvin that are scathing of the NSW pet industry. We want to thank the brave pet store workers who came forward to reveal the experi...
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City freight rail bypass
26/12/2008 |
THE best solution to congestion at Adamstown railway level crossing may not be the obvious ones that spring to mind.
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A small price to spray
26/12/2008 |
COULD the solution to the graffiti curse be to make spray paint a lot more expensive and perhaps sold with a cash-back certificate?
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Best and worst films of 2008: You be the critic
25/12/2008 |
Herald movie critic James Joyce nominates the best and worst films of 2008. What are yours?
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Giving praise for Christmas
24/12/2008 |
IT'S Christmas time in the Hunter. The season of goodwill and hope for most. But for some Australians, perhaps, this Christmas celebration will be tinged with the ...
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