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17 Oct 2014:
Guardian Australia: Protesters from 12 Pacific nations launch kayaks and other vessels into coal port’s harbour to highlight their concern about climate change
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17 Oct 2014: Milañ Loeak: Blockading the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle to show that whole nations are paying the price for Australia’s coal and gas wealth
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13 Oct 2014:
Newcastle developer who told Icac he felt like a ‘walking ATM’ pictured with cake shaped like a brown paper bag with $100 bills spilling out of it
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11 Oct 2014: Police say the 23-year-old was trying to tap a beer keg in the cool room at the Bar Beach Bowling Club in Newcastle
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Protesters from Pacific islands hit by climate change vow to block coal exports in Australia – video
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10 Oct 2014:
A group of protesters from islands across the south Pacific have arrived in Australia pledging to block coal exports from the NSW port of Newcastle
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21 Sep 2014:
In just over three months, the passenger rail line into the centre of Newcastle will be permanently shut down. With the city's developers mired in controversy over revelations at the Independent Commission Against Corruption, what confidence do the people of the city have in a decision which will see the line shut, only to be replaced with a light rail system for which a construction start date has not even been set, and the rail corridor considered for development?
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21 Sep 2014: The NSW government is shutting down the rail line which runs into the CBD, with plans for light rail to take its place.
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2 Sep 2014: Former NSW treasurer stopped negotiations about Newcastle site to examine alternative Buildev proposal, hearing told
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29 Aug 2014:
Disgraced former Labor minister Joe Tripodi answers allegations he did Buildev’s bidding inside the former Labor government, and secretly worked to unseat his own colleague, former Newcastle MP Jodi McKay.
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26 Aug 2014: NSW police strike force formed to investigate allegations of sexual assaults by clerics and others in Newcastle diocese in the 1970s
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25 Aug 2014: Ann Wills, Tripodi’s ‘eyes and ears’ in Newcastle, said the disgraced former minister was expecting a job with Nathan Tinkler’s Buildev after the election
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22 Aug 2014:
Tripodi backed Tinkler’s plan for the terminal in Newcastle despite objections from then local MP Jodi McKay
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19 Aug 2014: Crudely drawn maps appearing to show targets in Sydney and Newcastle also discovered in rental house, newspaper reports
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17 Aug 2014: McCloy stands down after the NSW premier called on him to ‘do the honourable thing’
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16 Aug 2014:
NSW premier says Liberals ‘will never again let the people of Newcastle down’ after MPs admit taking cash from developers
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