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12 Mar 10 | HUNTER Business Chamber is to be congratulated for drawing attention to the need for dramatic improvements in Newcastle's mass transit systems.
11 Mar 10 | THE decision by Newcastle business and civic leaders to take their case for the city's redevelopment to Canberra is to be applauded.   | CommentsComments (1)
09 Mar 10 | SOME people would oppose the idea of Newcastle City Council spending up to $8 million upgrading soccer facilities to support the push to bring the World Cup to Australia.  | CommentsComments (5)
05 Mar 10 | MOST people would think it imperative to allow full public scrutiny of a strategy to minimise potential harm from industrial contamination in residential suburbs.
04 Mar 10 | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to change the way health services are paid for is fundamentally a good one.   | CommentsComments (1)
03 Mar 10 | THE Newcastle Knights are off to a shocking season start. Yet another player has become embroiled in allegations of involvement with illegal drugs.   | CommentsComments (1)
01 Mar 10 | KNOWING the Hunter is facing a steep rise in chronic illness due to an ageing population, Hunter New England Health is planning a strategy to cope.   | CommentsComments (1)
26 Feb 10 | WHAT most people expected to be a straightforward report on the advisability of moves to shift the Newcastle Melanoma Unit has instead focused a harsh spotlight on the administration of cancer services in the Hunter.
25 Feb 10 | IF Australia fails to respond to continuing price rises in medical services and health insurance premiums it risks encouraging its health system to follow in the footsteps of the disastrous American model.  | CommentsComments (1)
24 Feb 10 | IT is easy to run a balanced budget in prosperous times. That's as true of local councils as it is of households.
15 Feb 10 | NOT surprisingly, Newcastle has lagged behind other major Australian cities in gaining opportunities to install cycleways and dedicated walking paths.
05 Feb 10 | IF the Hunter is the heartland of the Australian Labor Party then the former party of the workers can be reliably diagnosed with chronic cardiac disease.
04 Feb 10 | THE heated arguments surrounding various parts of Newcastle's coastline are generating confusion and suspicion, setting the stage for what may become a typically Novocastrian political bunfight.  | CommentsComments (2)
02 Feb 10 | FOR decades, residents of Newcastle's eastern suburbs have complained about their high council rates.
01 Feb 10 |  HONESTY can be painful. The NSW Government has attempted to blame alarming new figures about serious errors in its public hospitals on the alleged fact that it keeps better records than other states. HONESTY can be painful. The NSW Government has attempted to blame alarming new figures about serious errors in its public hospitals on the all
29 Jan 10 | NOT for the first time, the prospect has been raised of Newcastle becoming a major naval base.  | CommentsComments (2)
28 Jan 10 | THE leader of the NSW Coalition, oft-presumed "premier-in-waiting" Barry O'Farrell, has decided that voters in the state he hopes to govern can't be allowed to read in newspapers about the performance of NSW schools.  | CommentsComments (1)
26 Jan 10 | THIS time last year Australia was facing what seemed likely to be in the words of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd "one of the most troubled years of our age".  | CommentsComments (1)
25 Jan 10 | ORGANISED crime gangs are making hay while the sun shines, draining the bank accounts of Australians whose relatively old-fashioned magnetic-strip credit and debit cards are easy meat for well-equipped criminals.
22 Jan 10 | US President Barack Obama's honeymoon with American voters has come to a grinding halt. US President Barack Obama's honeymoon with American voters has come to a grinding halt. The Democrats' resounding loss in this week's Mass
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