23/07/2008 | Fortunately I don’t have to either read a press release in any newspaper or have others give me Councillor Henry Meskauskas’ profile.
23/07/2008 | It was pleasing to see that Maitland MP Frank Terenzini was able to attend last night’s public meeting on escalating crime rates at Thornton.
22/07/2008 | I have lived in Maitland for four years and have been visiting family here for over 20 years.
22/07/2008 | NSW health minister Reba Meagher’s new advertising campaign to encourage people to seek treatments from the GPs in order to free up hospital emergency departments is good – in theory.
21/07/2008 | With the Maitland Local Government elections coming up the ratepayer and voter members of Maitland Business and Professional Women (Maitland BPW) remain firmly fixed on the issues of fundamental importance to our community.
21/07/2008 | In reference to your column, What We Say, (Maitland Mercury, July 18, 2008) I agree with what you say about people contacting their councillors about issues that are of concern.
21/07/2008 | The Maitland Mercury (July 4, 2008) says ‘open heart surgery’ is needed to reinvent the city centre, a very prudent diagnosis considering the city centre has already been subject to a heart bypass!
21/07/2008 | Pope Benedict XVI's apology to the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy over many years should go a long way towards healing the pain that has been been felt by the victims and the Church's hierarchy.
11/07/2008 | The Garnaut Report should be a wake-up call to all Australians as it outlines the dire consequences of climate change for this country if we fail to act now.
11/07/2008 | The Fair Pay Commission gives a $21 per week increase to our lowest paid workers and Kevin Rudd gives a $1400 per week increase to his top public servants who pay no more for a litre of petrol than a hotel cleaner.
11/07/2008 | There are days when we all lament the passing of time, when life was lived at a slower pace, when hillsides were covered with grass and not new housing subdivisions and roads were things that actually got people from point A to point B instead of being like the "carparks" they have become during today's peak hour traffic.
11/07/2008 | Smile. You’re about to be on candid camera.
The children of the city are to be armed with cameras with which to record what they see are the best and the worst aspects of the city.
10/07/2008 | Senior public servants – earning hundreds of thousands of dollars already – received an up-to 19 per cent pay increase; those earning minimum wage got a mere 4 per cent increase, an additional $21 per week swallowed by increasing petrol and food prices.
10/07/2008 | The Australian Fair Pay Commission's decision on Tuesday to deliver an increase of $21.66 a week to the country's lowest paid workers should provide at least some relief as people struggle to make ends meet.
9/07/2008 | A recent letter to the editor by Kate Holt (Dungog Chronicle, June 18) has surely heralded the absolute rock bottom of the anti-damming debate.
9/07/2008 | The Rail, Tram and Bus Union was unlikely to win widespread public sympathy for its wage claim if it continued to hold the travelling public to ransom over its threats to disrupt World Youth Day celebrations.