25/07/2008 | Many of us have happy memories of our childhoods played out in quarter acre backyards.
25/07/2008 | Are you filled with confidence that our leaders know what they are doing on climate change?
I’m not.
24/07/2008 | Maitland City Council needs to move full steam ahead on turning the dream of a heritage steam park for the city into a reality.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.