5/12/2008 | MANY factors support the development of the Cooranbong and Morisset areas as a major regional centre. The availability of a large supply of high-quality land suitable fo...
4/12/2008 | NEWCASTLE'S beautiful but rather neglected coastal strip may be about to experience a revolution, if a new scheme for managing and developing the area fulfils its prom...
3/12/2008 | CENTRAL banks around the world are cutting interest rates and Australia's is no exception. Rate cuts are a global response to a systemic crisis in a globally integrated...
2/12/2008 | THE two most logical ways to protect children from drowning are to restrict their access to water and to teach them to swim. Tragically, it appears that Australia may be lett...
1/12/2008 | INDUSTRIAL relations laws swing like a pendulum. Sometimes the rules governing the workplace are perceived to be favouring one side more than another and pressure build...
28/11/2008 | THE long-awaited report of the special commission of inquiry into NSW hospitals covers ground that will be familiar to everybody with an interest in the public health sys...
27/11/2008 | THE existence in the Hunter of a social "underclass" is seldom discussed, although it is implied by statistics.
High levels of dependence on welfare payments, high...
26/11/2008 | WHEN mandatory reporting of potentially at-risk children was introduced in NSW, a number of perceptive critics warned that one probable consequence would be an overwhelm...
25/11/2008 | AUSTRALIA'S days of near-total reliance on massive centralised electricity generation systems must surely be numbered. As more information comes to light about the environm...
24/11/2008 | LONG-SUFFERING clients of Australia's telecommunications companies will not be surprised that the national Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman is being buried under ...
21/11/2008 | FEW people would deny that Tasers can save lives.
Deployed instead of a firearm as a last resort against a dangerous assailant, the electro-shock weapon must be rega...
20/11/2008 | PUT a few hundred mayors and local councillors in a room together, and the likely result will be a whinge about the miserly pockets and heavy hands of the government laye...
19/11/2008 | THE Seahampton to Branxton F3 freeway link road has been top of the Hunter's infrastructure wish-list for some years. But while the region is united in its desire to ha...
18/11/2008 | NOBODY can be happy about the world financial crisis, but it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, having just exhorted his fellow...
17/11/2008 | UPPER Hunter residents appear to have realised that if they want acknowledgement of their concerns about the health effects of industry, they will have to make more noise.
14/11/2008 | JUDGES usually confine their criticisms to the activities of the criminals they sentence. On the rare occasions when they use the platform the bench affords them to commen...
13/11/2008 | NEWCASTLE has changed a lot since 1858, the year The Newcastle Chronicle appeared. The straggling, primitive, dusty frontier boomtown of 150 years ago has become, by degr...
12/11/2008 | THE mini-budget announced yesterday by the NSW Government is considerably more significant and far-reaching than many of the full-scale budgets the state has experienced ...
11/11/2008 | BAIL-OUTS are in fashion all over the world, with private businesses of various kinds extending their hands for public funds or government guarantees.
As the global ...
10/11/2008 | THE idea that the Independent Prices and Remuneration Tribunal (IPART) might decide not to let state government-owned Newcastle Buses slug passengers an extra five p...
Favourites
Del.icio.us
Facebook
Digg
StumbleUpon
MySpace
Reddit
Newsvine
LinkedIn
Kwoff