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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Giselle Wakatama |Madeline Lewis
It was one of Australia's first natural disasters to be broadcast around the world. Flood expert and former New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) director general Chas Keys was a boy at the time, watching on from New Zealand. "Cinesound used to play its news documentaries, I guess you'd say, before movies in cinemas at the time and that happened around the world," he said.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
mclane.com | Madeline Lewis |Jessica Oliveri
An employer may seek to reward a long-time or key employee for good work by promising to pay a bonus to the employee upon the employee’s retirement. However, an employer that contemplates putting such an arrangement in place should stop and ask itself one fundamental question: Did it remember 409A?
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
The all time record for the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale has been smashed twice in two days after a filly sold for $3.2 million dollars on Friday. The yearling by multiple group one-winning sire Home Affairs and superstar race mare Sunlight was offered by the Hunter Valley's Coolmore Stud at Jerrys Plains just one day after a new $2.8 million record had been set.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
A man has died under suspicious circumstances at a home in Gateshead near Newcastle. NSW Police told the ABC the man was found alive with critical injuries but died at the scene. Police investigations into the death are ongoing. Police have established a crime scene at a suburb near Newcastle after a man believed to be in his 30s died under suspicious circumstances at a home overnight. Emergency services were called to the property on Mahogany Crescent at Gateshead shortly after 11pm on Thursday.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
Police have located a body in the search for a man missing on Lake Macquarie. The man was last seen in the water on Monday afternoon. A report will be prepared for the coroner. A body has been found in the search for a man who went missing on Lake Macquarie on Monday afternoon. Police were alerted to the missing 60-year-old around 5pm Monday after a witness saw him disappear in the lake.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Romy Stephens |Madeline Lewis
Two protesters have been granted bail after facing court on charges relating to an anti-fossil fuel demonstration that allegedly disrupted the shipping channel leading into the world's largest coal port. They were among 170 people, including children, arrested and charged for allegedly defying directions by New South Wales Police during the protest on Newcastle Harbour on Sunday.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
Transport for New South Wales has issued an exclusion zone in Newcastle Harbour ahead of a three-day protest next weekend. Climate activism group Rising Tide has promoted its Port Blockade protest and festival from Friday to Sunday as a demonstration on land and water, aiming to disrupt vessel movement in and out of the world's largest coal port. Last week the Supreme Court prohibited on-water activity that targeted industrial shipping channels.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
A Vietnam veteran who was homeless for 30 years has been presented with his war medals at a ceremony in the New South Wales Hunter region. Alwyn Craig is a man of few words but has a remarkable story to tell. The 76-year-old, also known as "Old Pete" or "Shorty", is a familiar character around Newcastle. Until earlier this year, Mr Craig's family had not seen him since 1994.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
Matilda Campbell has been reunited with the team who saved her life after she became trapped in a rock crevice for seven hours. The 23-year-old from Newcastle was bushwalking in the New South Wales Hunter Valley when the dramatic ordeal unfolded earlier this month. She slipped and fell 3 metres into a rock crevice as she tried to retrieve her mobile phone. Her feet became stuck between two large boulders and she hung upside down while a multi-agency operation worked to free her.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Madeline Lewis
A multi-vehicle crash has closed the M1 Pacific Motorway in both directions on the New South Wales Central Coast. Emergency services were called to the M1 at Wyong about 1:30pm after four vehicles collided in the southbound lanes. Shortly after, a woman was hit by a car in the northbound lanes. She died at the scene and her death is not being treated as suspicious. A crime scene has been established with traffic being diverted off the M1.
