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Newcastle – a small Australian city resting in a contented backwater of this busy crowded planet. To its natives the most desirable and convenient address. And, they delight, a well-kept (yet readily-shared) secret. This particular Newcastle, one of dozens in the world, is a retired steel city on the continent’s

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What we are NewcastleOnHunter is a community information website published by a citizen of the city. The interest of NewcastleOnHunter is civic and community news, public art, cityscapes, and imagery of the Newcastle region, the Hunter Valley, and nearby coastal and inland districts. Agriculture and small farms are also a

What is Copyright? Copyright is automatic ownership granted by international law to creators of original work, such as art, literature, music, photography, etc. Copyright automatically applies to written and artistic works from the moment they’re created. A content creator doesn’t have to ‘do’ anything to obtain copyright. Read more about

Welcome to our world. This website explores the Australian city of Newcastle, NSW. A small city, attractively sited between hill and harbour, a worthy “built environment” both modern and historical, closely related to the region’s Lake, Bay, and Valley communities. When it became inevitable that railway tracks to Newcastle Station

Artists Street artists are invited to offer their collections for display on NewcastleOnHunter.org If you wish to offer information or claim ownership and credit, please, write to throsby at NewcastleOnHunter dot org and we can work together. If you are claiming credit, do supply convincing evidence. If you want a

NewcastleOnHunter does not use any information about you. Nor does it run advertisements of any type, or reproduce “live” content from sources other than our own website server. We do, however, run a bevy of website scripts to enhance our pages, and security tools to protect them. These scripts may

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In 2004 this domain name was registered. By 2007  we were plodding along reproducing verbatim media releases and making big plans. Over the decade we came and went. This being effectively one person’s “blog” masquerading as a news website, that was our luxury to do. But each absence made the

Masthead (aka, the staff). Editor. The Editor is the overseer of content and fittingly remorseful if complaints arise (they never do). Press Press is the media officer, the recipient of any news from you, or media releases from government, company, and organisation. A nondescript fellow with achromatic imagination. An excellent,