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Tuesday, 23 March 2010 ~ It’s Seniors’ Week and the students of Kurri Kurri Primary School are inviting their grandparents to the school to learn and record information about their lives when they were at school, when they were young ...
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Monday, 22 March 2010 ~ Joel Fitzgibbon MP visits Muswellbrook and Scone forl funding announcements. 11.00am: Indoor Sports Stadium, Rutherford Rd, Muswellbrook (accompanied by Mayor Martin Rush) 1.00pm: Elizabeth Park, Scone (accompanied by Mayor Lee Watts)
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The Wilderness Society held a community picnic for the Save the Williams River Coalition. This picnic marked the end of the Walk for the Williams which started Sunday 14 March – the official International Day ...
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Hunter residents and health professionals spoke out in another of a series of articles critical of mining’s affect on health in the valley, published in the Sydney Morning Herald today [19 March 2010]. It described conditions for Jerrys Plains ...
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NSW Shadow Minister for Small Business, Don Page, wants the State Government to find an alternative solution to the massive electricity price increases recommended by IPART yesterday. A 64% price increase over the next three years ...
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Saturday, 20 March 2010 ~ Greens NSW MP John Kaye addresses supporters at Newcastle Foreshore Park, Wharf Rd, Newcastle at 12pm. Dr Kaye joins local opponents to Tillegra Dam to highlight the damage the needless $477 million project will ...
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Workers at the Bulga Open Cut mine in the Hunter Valley today endorsed a new three-year collective agreement. The agreement includes: Paid union meetings and payroll deductions for union membership; ...
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The Hunter Medical Research Institute’s (HMRI) plans for a state-of-the-art building have been approved by the NSW Government. The University of Newcastle welcomed the NSW Government’s development approval for the new Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) building. ...
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The Hunter-Central Coast Regional Wind Ensemble, already used to national and international success, plays a farewell concert this weekend before heading to Japan. The Ensemble was formed in 2005 and at any one time has about sixty senior ...
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The Roads and Traffic Authority and their contractors have refused to acknowledge that cracking and other damage in homes at Nerong are due to blasting operations,” said Nationals Member for Myall Lakes, John Turner. Mr Turner said a number ...
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Monday 22 to Friday 26 March 2010 ~ A team of local and international Conservation Volunteers will be regenerating the dunes through weed removal and the re-establishment of native species. The team of keen volunteers will be travelling ...
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Newcastle inner city residents have commended the Joint Queensland Parliamentary Committee’s report recommending reduced hotel closing times across the State. These recommendations vindicate the hard struggle by local police and residents to make their streets safe and free from ...
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The Dalgarno Institute and its growing Coalition of concerned citizens continue to applaud and support endeavours to abate the alcohol related distress inflicted on our community. For over 150 years our movement has initiated, backed and collaborated with recommendations on ...
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Sunday, 21 March 2010 ~ The Native Animal Trust Fund Wildlife Rescue Service (NATF) is hosting a day of celebration and education of the Hunter’s local wildlife at the Hunter Wetlands Centre, Shortland on Sunday 21st March. The Wildlife Rescue ...
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The Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) was advised by an Expert Working Group that breakthroughs in the science of learning, including brain function, motivation and the practice of teaching, have the potential to transform how individual Australians ...
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It is appalling that the location of the long day care centre at MHPS Public School was selected by employees of the Department of Education with the criteria of “buildability and loss of impact to the school” quote. Child safety is a HUGE issue with this site selection and the site selectors have admitted publicly and on separate occasions they NEVER considered this when choosing this site. How can employees of the D of E not consider child safety THE MOST important issue when building a tax payer funded, full profit long day care centre on school land? The entire teaching staff, P & C and local residents are ALL against the location of this centre primarily due to child safety of the children attending MHPS. This school has already had a child injured by a car on school grounds. This current proposal suggest 154 vehicles use an existing driveway which is closed to all but 6 cars for staff but used by the students and their families as a pedestrian access to the school. This is a huge risk and unneccessary risk to the school community. Due process has not been followed and no studies were done prior to the site selection. The ministers who have announced this funding need to act now and ensure the site. Kate Ellis and Linda Burney need to act immediately and ensure a new site is selected which is safe for the entire community.