NEWCASTLE EMPLOYEE WINS THE PERKINS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE- INDIVIDUAL CatholicCare Hunter-Manning’s Coordinator of the very successful Lake Macquarie Shed Project, David Helmers, was last night pronounced the 2010 winner of The Perkins Award for Excellence in Service- Individual. Presented at Catholic Social Services Australia’s ...
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MINISTER’S ANSWER AUGURS WELL Greg Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, today won a battle in the war against surface mining in the City of Lake Macquarie. He was quick to praise the community’s campaign against the now abandoned Olstan open cut and auger mine and its support for his ...
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BILL TO BAN SURFACE MINING IN LAKE LGA Greg Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, today announced his Surface Coal Mining Prohibition (Lake Macquarie) Bill 2009. The Private Members Bill will apply a simplified definition of underground coal mining to the Lake Macquarie local government area and it will ...
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TRINITY POINT MARINA APPROVED WITH SIGNIFICANT AMENDMENTS Planning Minister, Kristina Keneally, today announced concept plan approval for a significantly amended $85 million tourism, residential and marina development at Trinity Point, Lake Macquarie. Ms Keneally said the proposed concept plan had been through a thorough, rigorous and ...
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STATE FUNDING CHANNELLED INTO LAKE MACQUARIE Greg Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, today welcomed the announcement of $858,000 in state funding for improvements to Lake Macquarie. The Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, Carmel Tebbutt, has confirmed that Lake Macquarie City Council will receive $750,000 for estuary ...
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SAVING FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE IN NEWCASTLE A matched-savings and financial literacy program running in Newcastle, Raymond Terrace and Lake Macquarie is assisting low-income families to strengthen their budgeting and savings habits. Saver Plus, Australia’s first matched savings and financial literacy program, is delivered by The Smith Family ...
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GREG PIPER WANTS OPEN CUT BAN MADE CLEARER In the wake of the dumped Olstan auger mining proposal Greg Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, wants strengthening of the State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) that prohibits open cut mining in Lake Macquarie. In a letter to the Minister for ...
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BAM QUESTIONS CONTRADICTIONS ON CENTENNIAL’S WEBSITE Community group Blackalls Against the Mine (BAM) has questioned information on the Centennial Coal Company’s website. According to BAM spokesperson Paul Moors, Centennial Coal has recently removed the term “auger mine” from the list of mining methods in its on-line glossary. ...
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MOUNTAINS TO DUNES LANDCARE FORUM FIELD TRIPS The 2009 Mountain to the Dunes forum field trips are an opportunity for volunteers and landholders of Lake Macquarie and the Central Coast regions to showcase their own, or explore nearby areas. Participants at the Landcare forum will have ...
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$400,000 COMMUNITY-BUILDING FUNDING FOR LAKE MACQUARIE Greg Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, encouraged local community groups to apply for new funding announced in the NSW Budget. According to Mr Piper, the NSW Government has made $400,000 available to the Lake Macquarie electorate under the $35 million NSW ...
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NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2009 COMES TO LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 is a major art award showcasing the best in Australian portrait photography. Ingvar Kenne won the 2009 award for his submission entitled Cormac and Callum. Depicting two young boys ...
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URGE TELLS NSW PLANNING DEPT OLSTAN MINE WILL USE OPEN CUT AUGERS United Residents Group for the Environment of Lake Macquarie (URGE) told the NSW Minister and the Director General for Planning that the type of auger mining equipment intended for use by Centennial Coal in a proposed ...
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URGE GROUP CALLS ON CENTENNIAL TO ABANDON OPEN-CUT MINE The United Residents Group for the Environment of Lake Macquarie (URGE) has called on the Centennial Coal Company to abandon plans for an open cut auger mine at Blackalls Park because health risks from dust can’t be managed onsite. ...
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SOUTHLAKE COMMUNITIES AGAINST THE MINE (SCAM) CIRCULATE PETITION Download copy here to print. Note: Click or right-click the link and ‘Save as’ or ‘Open’ if necessary. Print from the viewer software that opens the petition. Petition is in PDF format. Acrobat viewer may be ...
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THE MUSEUM EFFECT ~ 14 MAY – 28 JUNE Museums are inspiring. They encourage us to get up close and personal with the strange and mysterious, to reflect on the past and to contemplate the future. They can be endlessly fascinating, familiar and bizarre all at ...
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78,000 PEOPLE IN LAKE MACQUARIE AT RISK FROM MINE DUST Read the in-depth article from the link in our topics, or click here A community group has spoken out about the risk posed by dust from an open cut auger mine proposed by the Centennial Coal Company. ...
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OPEN CUT MINING NEAR THE LAKE – WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT?
Lake Macquarie, one of Australia’s east coast watery treasures, has lived with coal mining and assorted industries for 200 years.
It endured toxic emissions from the “sulphide Works” for most of last century, the small mining community of Boolaroo absorbing most ...
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LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY ‘HOLIDAY FUN’ Our Easter holiday art program designed for kids aged 7 to 14 years is a great way to cure the holiday boredom blues. For only $22 per child, they can enjoy two hours of fun art activities that are ...
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Peoples’ Choice votes closing 27 April Residents are encouraged to click their local community arts project through to a win, with voting for the Local Government and Shires Associations’ Peoples’ Choice Cultural Award set to close on 27 April. President of the Local Government Association Cr Genia McCaffery ...
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MEDIA RELEASE 23 March 2009 From: Hon Greg Combet MP, Federal Member for Charlton RECORD FUNDING FOR OUR LOCAL ROADS Over the next five years, local councils across Charlton will receive unprecedented Federal financial help to maintain and upgrade their ...
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Hamilton woman Akur Shanloy is in desperate need of help after flying to Nairobi in an effort to bring her sick husband back home. Her husband, Marial, suffered a stroke while visiting relations in Sudan, late last year and ...
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RUTHERFORD RSPCA SHELTER NEEDS YOUR HELP The night cages at the RSPCA’s Rutherford Shelter allow for people, in dire circumstances, to surrender their animals and bring in strays. But for the past three weeks the RSPCA hasn’t been able ...
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Thirty Hunter locals will play a starring role in the upgrade of the NSW electricity network joining another 121 bright sparks as first-year apprentices with EnergyAustralia. This year marks 100 years since the start of EnergyAustralia’s apprenticeship program. ...
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Lake Macquarie City Council is seeking information from parent carers of young adults with a physical disability to assist in building a case for a purpose-built supported accommodation facility in the Lake Macquarie/Newcastle area. Council’s Community Planner ...
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Port Stephens Council is working with the Boat Harbour community to regenerate the foreshore area after a recent spate tree poisoning, starting with a working bee on Saturday 27 March. Speaking today Environmental Services Manager Bruce Petersen said ...
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The St Vincent de Paul Society today condemned a Senate Inquiry’s findings on compulsory income management. We receive this news with a sad heart,” said National Council Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon. ...
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Beginning Sunday, 14 March 2010, supporters will walk the length of the Williams River, from close to the source to where it meets the sea at Nobbys Head to deliver the message: This is the ...
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Port Stephens and Newcastle Councils, each 50% owners of Newcastle Airport Limited (NAL), will retain the current ownership arrangement to keep the company as a community asset. Today (9 March 2010) both councils consider recommendations to explore short to ...
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NSW OPPOSITION TO INTRODUCE CARERS RECOGNITION BILL Hunter based MLC Robyn Parker says the NSW Opposition will introduce the NSW Carers Recognition Bill 2010 this week, which will recognize the contribution that carers make in the community. Mrs ...
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Wednesday 10 March 2010 ~ The RTA advises that the planned night closure of Morpeth Bridge tomorrow night (Wednesday 10 March) has been postponed to allow time for the installation of additional equipment to support the bridge deck. ...
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Saturday, 13 (&14) March 2010 ~ GREENWAY GALLERY proudly supports Morpeth’s Festival of Two Palettes. A salon showing of selected artists Ileana Clarke, Ros Elkin, Caroline Lobsey , Linda Greedy , Pam Ireland and Gianna Fallavolitta. Only on the weekend ...
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Cooks Hill galleries presents a ‘European to Australia experience’ opening Friday March 19. The exhibition continues until April 12 and both artists paintings are online from March 16 at http://www.cookshill.com James Drinkwater - Exhibition of oil ...
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12 March 2010 ~ Girrakool School is holding a "hair loss" ceremony on the 12th of March inside the Frank Baxter Juvenile Justice Centre at Mt Penang. As you are probably aware "the world's greatest shave" is approaching ...
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Monday (& Tuesday) 8 March 2010 ~ Motorists are advised of changed traffic conditions on the Pacific Highway one kilometre north of Swansea Bridge next week. The RTA will close one southbound lane on Monday 8 March ...
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 ~ 6pm. RTA is working on the Morpeth Bridge to increase the bridge’s load capacity and reduce future maintenance requirements. In order to carry out this work, Morpeth Bridge will be closed to traffic ...
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