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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Newcastle Herald]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A more pressing matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The concern of Kurri Kurri’s Cr James Ryan for potential flood victims in Branxton is not matched, it seems, by his concern for flood victims in Weston/Abermain.
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:15:00 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[Taking it from the street]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a solution to the problem of congested streets around Westfield Kotara.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:38:00 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[Star v Kooris, pubs v life]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I didn't see the Ashley Presbury letter (‘‘Learn the Koori culture’’ 1/2) that Jaye Quinlan refers to (Short takes 3/2) but even if she is not old enough to have been around, Ms Quinlan must have heard of the riot at the Star Hotel.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:00 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[We’re looking ordinary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I think the people of the Hunter are being dudded by outside forces with more money than sense.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Two items, four prices]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WHEN shopping at Woolworths Kotara recently I noticed prices on two different vegetables showed certain anomalies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:32:00 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[Learn the Koori culture]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I, too, agree with Margaret Priest (‘‘Who taught these children to hate?’’ Letters 31/1).]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:29:00 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[Dogged by high prices]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Because of the recent constant raining I called a local dog wash to wash my dog.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:30:00 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[Mind driven off the road]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I AM fed up with  drivers talking and texting on mobile phones while driving – placing my life at risk.]]></description>
<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[Check car before filling]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FROM July, the Biofuels Act will require that regular unleaded petrol in NSW be replaced with E10, ethanol blended with unleaded petrol.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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