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Rail can stay on campus

12 Mar 10 | IT'S my understanding that the extension of the university's city campus is not dependent on taking out the Newcastle rail line, its major public transport link, nor should it be. |

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Stockland uni car park

11 Mar 10 | IN trying to attend my lecture yesterday morning at Newcastle university, I endured 20 minutes of traffic congestion in the car park with no sign of a free space. |

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Acid mines easily fixed

09 Mar 10 | REGARDING the report "Hunter water 'at risk' from mines" (Herald 6/3), acid mine drainage contains high levels of dangerous heavy metals and the acid leaches aluminium from the clays.

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05 Mar 10 | I HAVE to agree with Tim Bohlsen (Opinion 24/2, Letters 3/2) and Alan Squire (Letters 2/3) that Newcastle will always need more than one form of public transport if heavy rail is removed from the inner-city. |

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SES rightly stormy

04 Mar 10 | I'M sorry to be one who throws a shadow over the success of the state Surf Life Saving Championships at Blacksmiths during the past weekend. |

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ALP nuked on policy

03 Mar 10 | BARRY Spaulding (Letters 2/3) asks why Australians are so afraid of nuclear power stations. They are not, Barry. It's the ALP that has held out against them at state and federal level. |

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Sticky wicket of cost

01 Mar 10 | MY son and his partner are passionate about the Australian cricket team and wanted to see them play the West Indies. |

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Please fence them in

26 Feb 10 | ANDREW Clarke ("Bogey Hole responsibility" Letters 24/2) may have a point about people taking responsibility for their own actions, but surely the fence at the Bogey Hole should be repaired as soon as possible. |

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Blow to Kooragang

25 Feb 10 | THE timely article on the proposed Tillegra Dam's effect on the internationally recognised Kooragang wetlands (Herald 22/2) was mirrored in the opinion piece the next day. |

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Flying off on a tangent

24 Feb 10 | IN relation to Williamtown aircraft noise, both Port Stephens councillors and affected landowners have the wrong target. |

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Expand ferry services

15 Feb 10 | MORE use could be made of the ferry service in Newcastle, given that some sections of the community are hell-bent on removing the rail service. |

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Spread water and costs

05 Feb 10 | IN a dry country like Australia, why not build dams where rainfall assures a regular water supply and pipe the water to areas in great need? |

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Don't dump on Birubi

04 Feb 10 | READERS might recall my letter regarding Birubi Beach being used as a tip ("Our paradise is at risk" 6/1). |

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Think of the damage

02 Feb 10 | IMAGINE the psychological damage to youngsters if we stopped their graffiti of public and private property. We should be doing more for these budding artists. |

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The lycra juggernaut

01 Feb 10 | I SPEAK to speeding cyclists on Fernleigh Track and their lycra-clad colleagues: you need to understand that, just as you are entitled to use the road and to expect courtesy from cars and trucks |

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Double-edged sword

29 Jan 10 | NIB chief executive Fitzgibbon's opinion piece ("Health-care welfare state needs changing" Herald 27/1) made for interesting reading. Some of his ideas have merit.

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Just for Australia Day

28 Jan 10 | AUSTRALIA Day dawned. The park glistened. A family took their morning stroll. Bronzed, muscle-bound hunks ran themselves ragged, stretching, jogging, running, pumping out push-ups. Life, be in it, in |

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Wake up, Lake Mac

27 Jan 10 | ONE of the biggest days in the Australian calendar was ruined by bureaucracy. I think the idea of moving towards a more "family oriented" Australia Day at Speers Point was rubbish. |

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Blow-up in the suburbs

26 Jan 10 | THERE is a growing menace threatening Newcastle and its suburbs. This menace is the leaf blower. |

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They know how to bill

25 Jan 10 | HAVING never been on the private toll roads before, I recently drove to Sydney. |

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