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About the NBNTV Collection

26 December 201910 January 2021 Throsby

The photographs Photographs in this series of articles are from various NBN staffers, private collections, and historic archives. Viewers past and present finally get to see the operations of “Channel 3” (as it was fondly known) and the daily tasks

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Cityscape Memories NBNTV Port & Shipping 

State Dockyard ~ Last of the Big Ships

16 January 197720 October 2020 Throsby

I saw the first boat launched at Walsh Island, the Stockton ferry Mildred, and now I’ve come to see the last boat launched at Newcastle. I am sad, very sad.” ~ R. Lindsay of Carrington, former dockyard apprentice pattern maker.

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Cityscape Memories NBNTV 

NBN ~ Preparing for Colour

1 December 197520 October 2020 Throsby

It’s 1970. Colour television is coming and Newcastle’s Channel 3 has a lot of work to do. Viewers are impatient. After all, Baird demonstrated colour in 1940 (as my Scottish neighbour regularly reminds me), the Yanks were watching “color” in

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Cityscape Memories NBNTV Port & Shipping 

Tale of an Australian Trader

14 February 196920 October 2020 Throsby

At daybreak on the 17 February, 1969, media crews arrived at Newcastle’s State Dockyard site at Carrington’s Dyke End peninsular. Above ~ Walsh Island at dawn, taken from Eastern Wharf’s crane on launch day. In three hours time another historic

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Cityscape Memories NBNTV 

From the Real World ~ NBN’s Outside Broadcast Vehicles

31 December 196720 October 2020 Throsby

This is how Outside Broadcast crews were described in The Monochrome Years, and a good place to start this pictorial tribute: …the real “thrill seekers” were OB technicians who had to drive a mobile studio sometimes hundreds of kilometers to

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Cityscape Memories NBNTV 

NBN ~ The Monochrome Years

1 November 196220 October 2020 Throsby

The grant of a commercial television licence is a privilege of great public importance, especially to the people in the area in which the station is established; and there seems little doubt for its most effective use a commercial television

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Newy’s New Annual Arts Festival
Newcastle Event & Venue 

Newy’s New Annual Arts Festival

8 February 2021 Press

Arts Festival makes Newcastle the place to visit this month. An intimate art gallery performance by a renowned Australian musician, an augmented reality experience celebrating indigenous culture, and a discussion on women in leadership with Australia’s first female Prime Minister,

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Renewal of Gas Exploration Permits off Newcastle
Energy & Renewables NSW aka In the News Opinion 

Renewal of Gas Exploration Permits off Newcastle

12 February 202112 February 2021 Press

Gas companies making plans to drill offshore from Newcastle. Opponents fear the PEP 11 gas exploration permit off the coasts of Sydney and Newcastle will be renewed today by Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt. The joint venture companies currently holding

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La Niña Peaks But Effects Continue
Weather 

La Niña Peaks But Effects Continue

3 February 2021 Press

The 2020–21 La Niña is likely to have peaked with respect to atmospheric and oceanic patterns in the tropical Pacific. However impacts associated with La Niña, such as above average rainfall in eastern and northern Australia, are expected to persist

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Shipping Cartel Fined
Port & Shipping 

Shipping Cartel Fined

6 February 20216 February 2021 Press

Shipping cartel fines now total $83.5 million after WWO conviction. Norwegian-based global shipping company Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean AS (WWO) has been convicted of criminal cartel conduct and ordered by the Federal Court to pay a fine of $24 million, in

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Agriculture Faces Profitable Year
Agriculture 

Agriculture Faces Profitable Year

4 February 2021 Press

Australian agriculture looking to profitable year ahead – industry outlook. Australia’s agricultural sector is set to enjoy an overall profitable year ahead – underpinned by high commodity prices, positive seasonal conditions and low interest rates, and despite expected continuing trade

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Pioneeer Solar Energy Researcher Honoured
Physics & Energy 

Pioneeer Solar Energy Researcher Honoured

31 January 2021 Press

Australian father of photovoltaics awarded prestigious 2021 Japan Prize. By Stefanie Menezes UNSW Sydney solar expert Martin Green has been honoured with the Japan Prize for transforming the photovoltaics industry. Professor Martin Green. Photo ~ University of NSW. Professor Martin

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Give Back Our Data
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Give Back Our Data

8 February 2021 Press

Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to save the internet: give us back control of our data. By Pieter Verdegem Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster Releasing his creation for free 30 years ago, the inventor of the world wide

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Not a mirage, Actually a Mirage
Upper Hunter Heritage & Historical 

Not a mirage, Actually a Mirage

5 February 20215 February 2021 Press

Two jet fighter planes – a Macchi and a Mirage – are making their home at Scone Regional Airport. Restored by volunteers. they will become part of the Warbird Visitor Attraction. The Mirage A3-44 will travel by road from the

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