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Take their toys away
8:43 AM AEDT | SUPERINTENDENT John Hartley ought to be congratulated on the latest plan to cut the P-plate driver toll ("Confiscate their cars" Herald 5/1). People who engage in street racing should have the...
Connection to country
6/01/2009 | THANKING the residents of Tillegra for giving up their land, as Isabel Garde does (Short takes 3/1), displays a lack of information. As a fifth-generation resident of the Williams River Valley, I ...  | CommentsComments (1)
Just a flash in the pan
5/01/2009 | HAVING read the story "Scars for life" (Herald 2/1) about an unfortunate girl hit by a flare during the Newcastle Foreshore fireworks display on New Year's Eve, I'm wondering how we can justify spendi...
Card has little credit
2/01/2009 | I BELIEVE Cr Aaron Buman's idea of a "Newcastle Card" is poorly argued, divisive and discriminatory ("Citizen card" Herald 29/12). It would place Newcastle residents into two camps: ratepayers and ...  | CommentsComments (11)
Storm without a D-cup
1/01/2009 | THE fuss about topless females on any beach in Australia in this day and age is ludicrous ("Look at real issues, Fred" Herald 31/12). Thirty-five years ago I was sunning myself topless at the beac...  | CommentsComments (3)
A question of survival
31/12/2008 | THE son of shark-attack victim Brian Guest has a good understanding of the natural order ("Don't hunt dad's killer: son" Herald 29/12). Sharks are not hell-bent on preying on humans. In fact sh...
Channelling energies
30/12/2008 | I NOTICED the way United Residents Group for the Environment of Lake Macquarie president Peter Morris dismissed as myths dredging of the channel to improve flushing and, as a consequence, improve migr...
More puppy love needed
29/12/2008 | WE commend recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald by Nick Galvin that are scathing of the NSW pet industry. We want to thank the brave pet store workers who came forward to reveal the experi...
A small price to spray
26/12/2008 | COULD the solution to the graffiti curse be to make spray paint a lot more expensive and perhaps sold with a cash-back certificate?
Kindness of strangers
24/12/2008 | I WANT to say a huge thank you to Marko Jesic and Ante Covic from the Newcastle Jets.
Shop for the top crop
23/12/2008 | ONE of the more successful enterprises in Newcastle has been the fortnightly farmers' market at Newcastle Showground.
Better safe than sorry
19/12/2008 | IT never fails to amaze me when, after any emergency or potential disaster where the authorities shut places down for safety reasons, the business community complains about the loss of trade.
Problem needs curbing
18/12/2008 | SOME New Lambton Heights streets have been turned into a public car park for John Hunter Hospital and Newcastle Private Hospital employees. Carrington Parade and Croudace Street are both quite nar...
More than nit-picking
17/12/2008 | I WOULD like to see more done to help eradicate the plague of head lice that a lot of children are suffering from. I have recently had contact with many children affected by head lice. I thoug...  | CommentsComments (1)
Still a beautiful game
15/12/2008 | JEFF Corbett's "Soccer says it all really" (Herald 10/12) requires a response. It was a minority of Jets supporters, not the whole Squadron, who were responsible for the chanting. The idea tha...
Oh, to be free as a bird
12/12/2008 | I REFER to "Catch this bad egg" (Herald 10/12). Hens in battery cages have less room than an A4 piece of paper and 11.6 million hens are living this way in Australia. The RSPCA is calling o...
Squeezing every drop
10/12/2008 | I HAVE been following the debate about the NSW Government's proposal to charge private hospitals for donated blood ("Patients will pay: Skinner" Herald 6/12). I'll add a comment for what it's wort...
Actor, activists unite
9/12/2008 | I FELT privileged to see the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin in Newcastle over the weekend.
Chance to buoy city
8/12/2008 | SHIPPING giant Carnival chief executive officer Ann Sherry has been reported as saying that thousands of cruise passengers would be forced to disembark on small boats this summer.
Stained-glass ceiling
5/12/2008 | JEFF Corbett ("The flock's scattered" 3/11), you need to get a (spiritual) life and get out more. We should be celebrating the ordination of women well done to the Anglicans. Most denominatio...
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