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14 January 2010
Tamworth 14-24 January 2010 Oxley Local Area Command Music fans encouraged to have fun, celebrate safely – Tamworth Country music fans attending this year’s festival in Tamworth are being encouraged by the NSW Police Force to have fun, but to celebrate safely. Police will be out in force in and around the Tamworth CBD as thousands of country music [...]
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28 December 2009
Victor P Taffa Central Western farmers including those at Gilgandra are relieved at a low pressure trough that is bringing heavy rainfall to many parched areas of the State. The low pressure trough extends from inland Queensland to the New South Wales South Coast, where it links with a front passing over the Tasman Sea. The trough [...]
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28 December 2009
Victor P Taffa 20 years ago at 10.27 am on Thursday, 28 December, 1989, the City of Newcastle was devastated by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale. The earthquake is regarded as one of Australia’s worst natural disasters. The earthquake claimed 13 lives including: 9 people at the Newcastle Workers Club 3 people in Beaumont Street Hamilton 1 person [...]
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14 October 2009
“Ebay is no way to run New South Wales” Victor P Taffa Hunter residents’ filled Newcastle Leagues Club auditorium on Wednesday October 8 2009 and key speakers called upon the Rees Government to start listening or face the consequences at the 2011 State election. Among the assembled were local Government and State Government representatives including Greg Piper [...]
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14 October 2009
Victor P Taffa Local café proprietor Judy Priedigkeit is concerned at the lack of bicycle racks within the CBD of Cooma. Visitors and residents are tripping over bicycles that are strewn over the footpaths because of the lack of adequate bike racks. At any time of the day particularly when ‘school is out’ passage to Judy’s [...]
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