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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Blake Doyle |Giselle Wakatama
The Department of Public Prosecutions will appeal the sentence handed down to Tyrone Thompson this month. Thompson was sentenced to 22 years and six months, with a 15-year non-parole period, for stabbing his former partner Mackenzie Anderson to death. Ms Anderson's mother has welcomed the appeal, after previously criticising the sentence as too light.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
rnz.co.nz | Blake Doyle |Giselle Wakatama |Bruce MacKenzie |Bruce Mackenzie |Keely Johnson
By Blake Doyle, Giselle Wakatama, Bruce MacKenzie and Keely Johnson, for ABCA Sydney man, identified by the NSW Game Fishing Association as Paul Barning, fell overboard during a fishing competition north of Newcastle, on Sunday. Police say Barning was dragged into the water by the shark when he became tangled in tackle and that it was not a shark attack. What's next? An air and sea search for the missing man will continue further south.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Blake Doyle
A man and a woman have been charged with murder over a fatal stabbing in the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton. A 22-year-old man, who police haven't identified, died after suffering multiple stab wounds on Beaumont Street just after 2:30am on Sunday. It happened outside a post office on the popular restaurant strip. Strike Force Mannum was established to investigate the stabbing. A man, 27, was arrested at Waratah Police Station at about 11:00am yesterday and charged with murder.
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May 6, 2024 | 
saltwire.com | Blake Doyle
The province's population growth once heralded by political leaders has now become a Waterloo of poor planning. Growth aggressively sought by provincial and municipal politicians, is a quick pivot when constituents' ire is raised.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
saltwire.com | Blake Doyle
We have just endured one of the most telegraphed budgets in memory. In an era of TikTok and depleted attention spans even budgets need to be pre-released to garner attention. Related storiesUnfortunately, the assaults on business from provincial and federal levels of government continues in response to actors who seem unable to constrain spending; fueling inflation and then seeking taxation offsets to support financial dysregulation.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lani Oataway |Blake Doyle
In short: Wild weather has damaged homes and businesses across the NSW. Extreme winds have damaged six guest rooms at the Tottenham Hotel. What's next? Clean-up efforts continue where houses in the Hunter are waiting for power to be reconnected. The State Emergency Service responded to more than 100 calls for help across NSW overnight, where wild winds ripped off roofs and caused power outages to thousands of homes. Seven of those calls were from the tiny town of Tottenham, west of Dubbo.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis |Blake Doyle
Firefighters were forced from a burning Lake Macquarie townhouse on Railway Street, Teralba, as they searched inside for at least two people this morning, but stopped its spread in the 22-unit complex. Emergency services were called to the fire just before 4:15am to find a two-level townhouse on fire.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
saltwire.com | Blake Doyle
I have been watching with interest the drama of Nelson Peltz, a corporate agitator who is attempting to insert himself on the board of directors for Disney. While Disney resonates happy thoughts and plush mice; the stock has been a unique underperforming for the last several years. Peltz has a history of shaking up board management and generally raising shareholder value, but in Disney’s case, he is viewed as an unwelcome contributor.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
saltwire.com | Blake Doyle
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
abc.net.au | Blake Doyle |Madeline Lewis
Hundreds of firefighters will concentrate on a back-burning operation in the Hunter Valley today, ahead of expected worsening conditions tomorrow. Two Hunter bushfires have been downgraded after reaching emergency level yesterdayA tyre shop at Weston has been destroyedThe NSW RFS is concerned about deteriorating conditions expected tomorrowThree fires combined late yesterday at Abermain to form one major fire in searing conditions, and reaching Emergency Level.
