Muloobinba/Newcastle

Rally says: ‘Fix Newcastle buses’
Newcastle socialists poll well
Newcastle’s privatised bus drivers underpaid
Socialists to stand for Newcastle Council
Peter Dutton piñata takes a beating
Students of Sustainability conference, a light on the hill
‘Supercars put profit before common good’ say residents
Familes and communities before street races

Assistant secretary of the Newcastle East Residents Group (NERG) Karen Read addressed Newcastle Trades Hall (Hunter Workers) recently about the supercars race scheduled to run through Newcastle’s historic East end in November.

Read fielded questions about residents needing to be credentialled to enter their own homes, the needs of the elderly, contacts with other groups such as Save Albert Park and the lengthy period of construction and dismantling of race infrastructure.
Newcastle to ‘pave paradise and put in a parking lot’?
Weekly refugee protest passes one year
Man charged with Bowraville murders
Nurses union: Keep Maitland Hospital public

The NSW government wants to privatise hospitals in Maitland, Wyong, Goulburn, Shellharbour and Bowral. But people are fighting back. Brett Holmes, general secretary of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association, lays out the arguments.