May 17, 2013 NOBODY can blame Gloucester residents for being worried about the state government's decision to permit them to be used as guinea pigs for "fracking".  

May 16, 2013 INNOVATION is one of those words that business consultants love to latch onto. Like other, similar words, it can be a mantra and a justification for hours of serious-sounding conference chatter.  

May 15, 2013 ANGELINA Jolie’s highly publicised decision to have her breasts removed and reconstructed with implants has naturally generated wide discussion.  

May 15, 2013 FACED with a convergence of negative political and economic circumstances, Treasurer Wayne Swan has put the best face he can on his sixth – and quite possibly last – budget.  

May 14, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Nurses Day is celebrated each year on May 12, the birthday of the woman revered as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.  

May 12, 2013  THANKS to calculations by community campaigners, we know the Hunter Region’s open-cut mines detonated almost 2500 explosions in the course of their operations last year.  

May 11, 2013 NEWCASTLE’S reputation as a creative city represents an opportunity that savvy marketers could do well to harness.  

May 9, 2013  HUNTER people, perhaps more than most, have a powerful reason to support the constitutional recognition of local government.  

May 8, 2013 UNTIL very recently, it was starting to seem as if the O’Farrell Coalition might walk away from its election promise to dredge the Myall River.

May 8, 2013 MANY informed pundits had written off the prospect of another interest rate cut this week, arguing that previous deep cuts were still filtering through the system.