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Labor and leadership

8:33 AM | 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

8:31 AM | I hope Newcastle City Council has provided a budget for cleaning the library building now that the figs are gone. |

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reflecting on Australia Day

26 Jan 12 | Australia Day, in 2012, is an occasion on which many people might reflect how fortunate they are to live in a country so distant from most of the problems apparent elsewhere in the world. |

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Planning for subsidence

25 Jan 12 | Back in 2008, when Wyong residents expressed concern about some mining plans in their politically marginal area, the state government ordered its department of planning to do a strategic review of the issues involved. |

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Job losses in the fast lane

24 Jan 12 | Toyota doesn’t have any manufacturing plants in the Hunter, but the car maker’s decision to cut 350 jobs in Victoria represents another cold gust of the same chilly wind that is blowing through parts of this region’s economy. |

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Getting to the core of things

23 Jan 12 | A common criticism of local councils is that they stray too far from what should be their ‘‘core’’ functions. |

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Euro worries down under

20 Jan 12 | Dire warnings from the World Bank about a possible crippling second wave of the global financial crisis seem likely to reinforce the trend among Australians to batten down their budgetary hatches. |

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Pokies reform odds lengthen

19 Jan 12 | Anti-gambling campaigner Andrew Wilkie should be practising his poker face. |

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Rubbish tax needs reform

18 Jan 12 | The long-awaited review of the state’s controversial waste levy – promised by the Coalition during its election campaign – is finally under way. |

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Building on the backlog

17 Jan 12 | Infrastructure backlogs have been a major part of the local government debate since former NSW Treasury secretary Percy Allen produced a landmark report in 2006. |

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Action at last on art gallery

16 Jan 12 | It is heartening to learn of another significant step towards the redevelopment of the Newcastle Art Gallery. |

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Head to head on loaders

13 Jan 12 | A little more than a year has passed since Nathan Tinkler unveiled his audacious plan to build a coal-loader on the former BHP steelworks site. |

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