A pedestrian-friendly town centre in North Stockton and a drawcard coastal walk from Stockton to Tomaree Headland is proposed by Port Stephens and Newcastle Councils. The Fern Bay and North Stockton Strategy grew from discussions with the Fern Bay community
Read more...IMB Bank merges with Hunter United Employees’ Credit Union. IMB Bank has completed its merger with Newcastle-headquartered Hunter United Employees’ Credit Union Ltd (‘Hunter United’) after receiving regulatory approval from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. IMB Chief Executive Robert Ryan
Read more...By Hao Tan Associate professor, University of Newcastle ~ et alia. The chaos of COVID-19 has now hit global energy markets, creating an outcome unheard of in industrial history: negative oil prices. With the world’s largest economies largely in lockdown,
Read more...A joint Australia-United States Space Surveillance Telescope at Exmouth on WA’s Coral Coast is under construction. Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Leo Davies said the telescope would increase the capacity to detect and track objects in space in order
Read more...Petrol retailers should not use the current pandemic to further increase profits, which the latest ACCC petrol industry report shows have risen in recent years, and should pass on the full benefit of falling oil prices to motorists, the ACCC
Read more...The government is working on an app to track our contacts but, first, it will need to pick up its privacy act. By Dr Katharine Kemp1 The Australian government has announcedit is working on a mobile app to monitor our
Read more...By Michelle Grattan Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra . After the coronavirus nightmare has passed, harsh judgments will be made about which political leaders and health experts were on the right or wrong side in handling this crisis. Politicians like
Read more...Reflections Holiday Parks Responds to Yesterday’s NSW Public Health Order Now in Place The NSW Minister for Health and Medical Research, The Hon. Brad Hazzard, MP, has now confirmed the NSW position and made an Order under the Public Health
Read more...The Federal Court has ordered that Panthera Finance Pty Ltd pay $500,000 in penalties for unduly harassing three consumers over debts they did not owe and for misleading one of the three consumers. The Court held that Panthera harassed three
Read more...Australians under 25 lost over $5 million to scams in 2019 and reports made from this age group are increasing faster than older generations. In 2019, around 12,000 (7.15 per cent) reports made to Scamwatch were from people under the
Read more...HMAS Arunta tests missile system after upgrade. Following a 20-month upgrade, Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS Arunta has fired its first Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) off the coast of Western Australia. HMAS Arunta fires ESSM off the coast of
Read more...Hunter Water Draft Prices from 1 July 2020. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) wants feedback on the prices that Hunter Water can charge customers. Under IPART’s draft prices, combined water, wastewater and stormwater bills for typical customers in
Read more...Ninth wastewater report reveals Australians spend over $11.3 billion a year on drugs. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) today released the ninth report of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program (NWDMP) providing longer-term insights into drug consumption as the
Read more...Workers at RAAF Base Williamtown will service and prepare up to 46 retired F/A-18 Classic Hornet aircraft that will be sold to air combat training company Air USA. The Classic Hornet aircraft will be used to provide training services to
Read more...Drivers caught on camera using a mobile phone will be issued fines and demerit points from 1st March 2020. The NSW Government’s mobile phone detection cameras have been operating in warning mode since 1 December 2019, but drivers will now
Read more...Record $1.6bn in development approved in Lake Macquarie in 2019. Lake Macquarie’s development boom continues to scale new heights, with almost $1.6 billion worth of development approved across the City in 2019. Lake Macquarie City Council CEO Morven Cameron said
Read more...NSW Government Response to Ice Inquiry ‘Disappointing.’ The NSW Government has missed an opportunity to reform the state’s response to drugs based on evidence, according to the Director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at UNSW Social Policy Research
Read more...In its February 2020 water allocation statement, the NSW Government says that despite recent coastal rainfall and some inflows into the Hunter system, there is insufficient improvement in water availability to provide an allocation increase. The Hunter Regulated River Water
Read more...Despite recent rainfall across NSW coastal and inland regions, 99% of the state remains drought-affected. NSW is experiencing the worst drought on record and many parts of the state did not receive any of the recent rain. Areas such as
Read more...NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said the union would take the opportunity presented by the TAFE review to highlight the failed privatisation policies of successive state and federal governments. TAFE budgets have been slashed resulting in the loss of
Read more...Council unites on the access road to the Cessnock Correctional Centre. Cessnock City Council will continue to advocate for residents and the community for a new access road to the Cessnock Correctional Centre. Since the announcement of the expansion of
Read more...The ACCC will not oppose the proposed acquisition of Direct Paper by Spicers Limited. The commission ruled that finding that alternative suppliers of commercial printing paper and direct supply arrangements between printers and paper mills will continue to provide strong
Read more...Aboriginal Australians are not “aliens” under the Constitution and can no longer be deported from Australia, following a landmark decision handed down in the High Court today. The test case was brought by two Aboriginal Australian men Daniel Love and
Read more...Yang Ming ship arrested for pollution debt. Yang Ming container vessel Unanimity- sister to Efficiency and Eternity. Image ~ Buonasera The sister ship of the YM Efficiency, which lost 81 shipping containers off the coast of Newcastle and Port Stephens
Read more...The NSW Government’s central data repository now has over 10,000 data sets available to the public. GovHack 2014 Image ~ Gavin Tapp. Launched in 2009 as the first state-level open data catalogue in the world, the NSW Open Data Portal
Read more...On Monday 10 February, the PFAS Sub-committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade will hear questions about Government action on safety frameworks for PFAS in the environment. The Chair of the PFAS Sub-committee the Hon
Read more...The Law Society of NSW has repeatedly raised concerns on behalf of the state’s solicitors in relation to the swelling numbers in the state’s prisons, and the justice system as a whole. Figures released today by the NSW Bureau of
Read more...How Chile’s protests relate to 50-year-old neoliberal policies. US President Jimmy Carter and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet The politics of human rights is put under the spotlight in a book by Associate Professor of Philosophy, Jessica Whyte Chile has been
Read more...Surveillance camera policy under revision following breach. The ‘breach’ was an inadvertent use of unmarked cameras at The Bight Cemetery, Wingham. It was found, following a complaint about cameras at the cemetery, that cameras lacked appropriate signage. The cameras were
Read more...Honda and Mitsubishi recall 42,000 cars due to serious airbag safety risk. Two drivers have already died in Australia after their Takata NADI 5-AT airbags ruptured and propelled metal parts into the car interior.” Honda and Mitsubishi have commenced voluntary
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