Paddle power helps Lake Macquarie
4:00 AM AEDT | A festival on Lake Macquarie is fast becoming a must do for anyone with a paddle-powered craft . . .
Mount Hutton residents concerned students' lives at risk
4:00 AM AEDT | Mount Hutton residents are battling for traffic lights outside their primary school . . .
Botanist donates work to the University of Newcastle
4:00 AM AEDT | Self-trained botanist Donald McNair has a passion for plants and believes the true importance of Australia’s native species is yet to be realised.

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SPORT

Newcastle University cricket team are winners
4:00 AM AEDT | There is no truer saying in sport than ‘winners are grinners’ and so far this season the University cricket side are all wearing smiles.
Novocastrians head to pro junior
4:00 AM AEDT | Newcastle surfers Jake Sylvester, Ryan Callinan, Sam Lendrum and Duncan McNicol will be competing this week at the Grade 5 Oakley Pro Junior at North Stradbroke Island.
Newcastle City Council decides on workshop
A community workshop on the Laman Street fig trees will be held in March and will produce ...
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NATIONAL NEWS

Coalition to offer six months off to parents
09 Feb 10 | A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female voters.

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WORLD NEWS

Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
09 Feb 10 | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
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An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
09 Feb 10 | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994.
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