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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 |

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mental health challenges

02 Aug 10 | No wonder mental health advocates and professionals are trying to make an election issue of the problems in their field.

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Five weeks to choose

19 Jul 10 | With Kevin Rudd's political blood still wet on her hands, Julia Gillard has taken the bold step of calling the federal election for Saturday, August 21. |

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Cameras and road speeds

13 Jul 10 | IN last month's budget papers, the state government announced that revenues from fines - most of them levied on the owners of motor vehicles - were set to rise by $137 million this financial year to a record $428 million. |

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Living with coalmining

12 Jul 10 | It is certainly inconvenient that the approval process for some large Hunter coalmining proposals appears to have been slowed by, among other things, some investigations into levels of airborne dust in the areas in question. |

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Making super work harder

08 Jul 10 | Superannuation is a product that most people start to care about only when they are about to retire. Until then, it seems, many Australians with superannuation accounts pay them little attention. |

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Votes by the boatload

07 Jul 10 | Before his abrupt political execution, former prime minister Kevin Rudd announced he would not be "lurching to the right" on refugee policy in order to save his leadership.

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Bad hands on the trigger

01 Jul 10 | Three fatal shootings in the Hunter in a week have prompted an aghast community to ask how and why guns are finding their way into the hands of the wrong people. |

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Addicted to tobacco

30 Jun 10 | Many things are known about cigarette smoking and the tobacco industry.

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Helping the mentally ill

28 Jun 10 | The cruel nature of mental illness and the difficulty society has in dealing with it were starkly on display in the case of the late Michael Capel, shot dead by police at a Belmont caravan park in 2008. |

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