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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Newcastle Herald]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Better care of mentally ill]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In providing institutional care for the severely mentally ill, health authorities have two separate sets of equally important responsibilities.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cruising into Newcastle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While many Newcastle people have been preoccupied with other matters, the city’s harbour has been hosting a remarkable number of cruise ships.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The rate cut that wasn't]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's predicted fireworks, expected to follow an anticipated cut in official interest rates, fizzed when the Reserve Bank declined to cut.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Labor and leadership]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time to book a cleaner]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I hope Newcastle City Council has provided a budget for cleaning the library building now that the figs are gone.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hunter youth shelter crisis]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Working out how much crisis accommodation a community needs is no easy job.
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Parents in the playgrounds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In years gone by the common negative observations about schoolground behaviour related to unruly pupils.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Donations for democracy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Australian democracy has many friends. And many of them are willing to back their fondness for representative government with substantial financial contributions.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Finale for the fig tree fight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Land project has merit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Show holiday debate, again]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AS regular as clockwork, the debate about a public holiday for the Newcastle Show comes around each year.
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Legacies of Tinkler plan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bad blood on national day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reflecting on Australia Day]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Planning for subsidence]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Job losses in the fast lane]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting to the core of things]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A common criticism of local councils is that they stray too far from what should be their ‘‘core’’ functions.
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Euro worries down under]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pokies reform odds lengthen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anti-gambling campaigner Andrew Wilkie should be practising his poker face.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rubbish tax needs reform]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The  long-awaited review of the state’s controversial waste levy – promised by the Coalition during its election campaign – is finally under way.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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