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Struggling with ticket prices? This new music pass could be your answer

The cost of living is putting the squeeze on live music spending.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 3

'In a fire, you wouldn't get out': Hunter hospital non-fire compliant for years

'These are simple but critical faults that have been left for years and years.'

Newcastle Herald · Aug 3

Liberal power brokers left phones in car to avoid tracing before discussing corruption probe, Icac hears

Watchdog begins second of eight weeks of hearings, investigating branch stacking allegations in the NSW Liberal party

The Guardian - AU · Aug 3

Australia spent 25 years turning a river inland. The result became the country's biggest engineering project

On 17 October 1949, Australia's governor-general, prime minister and the newly appointed head of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority fired the first construction blast at Adaminaby, in the New South Wales high country, launching what would become the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. The Snowy Mountains Scheme set…

The Times of India · Aug 1

'Out of control': John Hunter security guards suffer broken bones in attacks

'For more than two decades, this problem has festered.'

Newcastle Herald · Jul 31

NSW should compensate elderly woman whose public housing was inundated with sewage, ombudsman finds

Ombudsman finds Homes NSW acted unreasonably and recommended additional payment for distress and suffering

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31

How the ‘Braveheart’ tribe of young Liberals descended from the Hills only to have their kilts lifted by Icac

Icac is investigating whether the NSW Liberals sub-faction took illegal donations and broke electoral funding laws

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31

One Nation eyes Hunter as Stuart Bonds set to lead party's NSW state election charge

Mr Bonds says One Nation is in the driver's seat.

Newcastle Herald · Jul 31

‘Rob has the bucks cash’: NSW Liberals used Reformers funds to pay for ‘personal expenditure’, Icac hears

Robert Assaf separately tells anti-corruption inquiry money funnelled through lobbying firm to create ‘maximum benefit from a tax perspective’

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31

Electric car tax looms for one state unless PM steps in

One state is prepared to charge ahead with a tax on electric vehicle drivers unless the federal government introduces a national scheme.

AAP · Jul 31