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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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Leaked to the media

4/12/2008 | HOW could any civilised person condone the act of urinating in public (Jeff Corbett, 1/12)? If by the roadside, it could be compared to giving passing motorists the finger, as in "up yours". We ...

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Clean, green and lean

3/12/2008 | WE at the Newcastle Bike Ecology Centre think we have the most environmentally friendly present for Christmas. Get a pre-loved bike from our Newcastle Community Bike Library, donated from the c... |

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Watts the difference

2/12/2008 | I WAS a little startled by the letter "Consuming Passions" (Herald 28/11) where the writer assumes houses will last for about 50 years. I wonder if this estimate underestimates the durability of m... |

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Players fail to pitch in

1/12/2008 | I FLEW with some friends recently from Newcastle to Brisbane for the first cricket Test against New Zealand. On the Sunday we paid $30 for 40 minutes of cricket so we thought the players might do ...

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Consuming passions

28/11/2008 | THE concept of recycling a McMansion has a great deal of merit ("Would you like greening with that" Herald 26/11). While we agonise over how to cut down our energy consumption, it isn't always app...

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New drop a top vintage

27/11/2008 | IF The Vintage golf resort at Pokolbin is able to access and use recycled water, then I see no reason why we can't expand wastewater treatment to other areas of the Hunter Region and throughout NSW ("...

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Sailing into the sunset

26/11/2008 | MY family and I were saddened to read of the demise of VJ racing on Lake Macquarie ("Passage of time claims VJ" Herald 21/11). Our two sons, like many other Belmont sailors, came up through the ra...

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Wrong Christmas card

25/11/2008 | HAVE the Jets forgotten how to play soccer? Have they forgotten how to be a team? Have they forgotten about their members and supporters? What about the sponsors, media and team-support person...

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Crikey, Jeff! Give it a go

24/11/2008 | WHOA, Jeff! What happened to you to make you take such a cynical tack about the hype surrounding the opening of a movie ("A national nonsense" Herald 21/11)? Did you fall out of bed, step on the c... |

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Easy to point the finger

21/11/2008 | IT'S interesting to read the comments made by fully licensed drivers happy about the loss rate of P-plater licences (Short takes, SMS 19/11). Considering that the present generation has a lot more tes... |

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Have your own dam

20/11/2008 | FOR eight years our family (two young boys and plenty of washing) has not been connected to Hunter Water. We have a 22,000-litre rainwater tank. So please help Hunter Water make a decision on the l... |

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Traffic is my problem

19/11/2008 | SO, Mr Corbett ("Rail debate heavies" Herald 17/11), you believe the heavy rail line is being underused. Explain to me, then, how I regularly see almost full loads of train passengers and have taken ... |

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They need exposure

18/11/2008 | HOW ridiculous is the so-called Rugby League World Cup. If the powers that be in rugby league seriously want to raise the standard of international competition as they often say they do they need to...

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Where silence is golden

17/11/2008 | I NOTE with some interest the comments made by letter writers about the distractions of people using mobile phones. |

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Reputation takes a dive

14/11/2008 | IT is a sad day in sport when a coach is suspended from the sidelines when he is provoked into bad behaviour. I am referring to the Jets game on Sunday against Perth Glory. Jets coach Gary ...

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Hunter and gatherer

13/11/2008 | IS Premier Nathan Rees showing foresight in handing Newcastle MP and Minister for the Hunter and Tourism, Jodi McKay, Tony Stewart's portfolios ("Minister threatens action after dumping" Herald 12/11)... |

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Parking mad at meters

12/11/2008 | NEWCASTLE CBD has lost my business for good through what I regard as the parking meter rip-off. Parking meters that work are bad enough, but when they are out of service you can apparently still ge... |

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Humanity's inhumanity

11/11/2008 | AS a boy I thought capital punishment was appropriate, especially for horrific crimes. As I grew older I began to wonder and worry about the finality of execution, mainly because I realised the ju... |

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League needs a leg up

10/11/2008 | AS hosts I believe the ARL has fallen short in its responsibility to promote the Rugby League World Cup. The event is supposed to be the pinnacle of the code, with every nation playing rugby leagu... |

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