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Jobless claims rise 50% in south-east

13 August 2009

MELBOURNE'S south-east has been hit with increases of nearly 50 per cent in those claiming unemployment payments... read full story

City Cooks In The Sun

16 January 2009

IT was fitting that the official launch of the new $100 million Australian Solar Institute took place on a blazing hot day in Newcastle... read full story

From Blue-collar To Cosmopolitan

14 January 2009

THE industrial might that once defined Newcastle as a steel city is no longer, with figures showing that the rise of the services sector and inner-city living is behind a population boom not witnessed since the 1970s... read full story

Trades Hall Backs Wage Increase For Low Earners

13 January 2009

NEWCASTLE Trades Hall has said low-income earners should not be forced to pay the price of corporate greed, following warnings any rise in the minimum wage would be guided by the global economic crisis... read full story

Tax Office Sacks Staff

10 January 2009

FIFTEEN Newcastle-based Australian Tax Office staff were laid off this week in an act the Australian Services Union described as disgraceful... read full story

Waiting Game

3 January 2009

The complex nature of the coal industry means that finding a way to reduce the queue of ships anchored off Newcastle's coast is never going to be easy. Ian Kirkwood writes... read full story

Meeting Their Obligations

18 December 2008

IT is an odd argument: hold fewer council meetings because councillors are busy with other jobs and roles. One would have thought that a person considering running for council might have taken the workload into account when deciding whether or not to put their name forward. Not so, it seems, with Newcastle City Council deciding this week to hold half as many formal council meetings in 2009 as were held in 2008... read full story

Activists Criticise 'spineless' Target

16 December 2008

NEWCASTLE environmentalists were wrestled to the ground and dragged out of a lunch in Canberra for heckling Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday... read full story

Excitement At Intertrade

13 December 2008

BUSINESS groups have welcomed this week's announcement that a Newcastle company has been chosen to redevelop about one-third of the former BHP steelworks, breathing new life into the site... read full story

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