28/08/2008 | There are few circumstances of the future that can be foreseen more clearly than the need for an adequate road system to the north of this city.
27/08/2008 | It was the accident that broke the camel’s back as far as residents in Regiment Road, Rutherford, are concerned.
26/08/2008 | Small business looks to modern, sophisticated communications as an aid to doing business.
25/08/2008 | At last, a common sense and practical suggestion to get this region an equitable share of the state and nation’s infrastructure spending.
22/08/2008 | Shopping centres have life expectancies of about 20 years before they need renovation or, more usually, expansion.
22/08/2008 | A lifetime of working in the media is only possible if you love it.
And I do. But, a lifetime later, I still marvel at how idiosyncratic – nay, fickle – it can be.
21/08/2008 | Dads are in short supply. Or, at least, their time is.
There are several dynamics in modern society that have conspired to rob children of a fair and full experience of their dads.
20/08/2008 | The Federal Government plans to have a three-year pilot scheme to give 2500 temporary work visas to guest workers from Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Vanuatu and Kiribati.
19/08/2008 | The city’s night spots are there to be enjoyed.
But the vexing issue is who determines when one person’s fun is an annoyance or even a threat to another?
18/08/2008 | Fuel prices seem set to become an even bigger headache for the federal government when it introduces its emissions trading scheme (ETS).
15/08/2008 | Maitland voters will have a wide choice of candidates and political persuasions when they go to the polls to elect the next Maitland council on September 13.
15/08/2008 | The inaugural Edmund Barton Lecture delivered last month by the defence minister and current Member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon was as rhetorically radical as any made by the first representative of the Hunter electorate and Australia’s first prime minister.
14/08/2008 | It is heartening to see the backers of the Life Cycle service are prepared to be patient and that they are
confident in the medium to long-term success of the project.
13/08/2008 | A visit by the Opposition local government and housing spokesman Chris Hartcher to the Thornton Railway Bridge yesterday was a cunning piece of political posture.
12/08/2008 | As the Federal minister for housing and status of women, Tanya Plibersek certainly has her work cut out for her.
11/08/2008 | For many years politicians have been telling us that competition among the banks would deliver better deals and services for all Australians.
8/08/2008 | Journalist Emma Swain’s front page story about five neighbours in the same street being struck down by cancer has again raised concerns about odours emanating from the nearby Rutherford Industrial Estate.
8/08/2008 | The Olympics start today, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Many may have noticed, but it seems few are in a frenzy about it.
7/08/2008 | When it comes to helping others the staff at a Maitland accounting firm have raised the bar and set an example the rest of us might do well to follow.
6/08/2008 | The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to keep interest rates at a 12-year high will leave homeowners angry with its decision not to loosen what many believe is a noose around their neck.