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| UpdatedEasing weather conditions have helped fire crews in the New South Wales Hunter Valley gain the upper hand in the battle against a blaze threatening homes near Cessnock.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, cessnock-2325, kearsley-2325, aberdare-2325, raymond-terrace-2324, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedScientists discover a rare frog species in swampland north of Newcastle.
Topics: animal-science, biology, human-interest, science-and-technology, oyster-bay-2225, williamtown-2318, newcastle-2300, gosford-2250
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| UpdatedA former school principal and Marist Brother is labelled a liar and coward at the child abuse royal commission, for saying he cannot remember the circumstances surrounding a boy's suicide.
Topics: newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThe former principal of a Marist Brothers high school in Newcastle tells the child abuse royal commission a notorious paedophile admitted to him he had abused children 40 years before he was charged.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, community-and-society, catholic, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe mother of a Newcastle teenager who killed himself more than 40 years ago tells the child abuse royal commission she believes a group of Marist Brothers were "looking for evidence" at her home after the death.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, community-and-society, suicide, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA child abuse survivor tells a royal commission he punched a Marist Brother "hard in the head" after being subjected to horrific abuse at his Catholic high school.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church was hopeful in the 1970s that paedophile priest Vincent Ryan could be "cured" so he could return to being a "most effective priest", the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA notorious paedophile priest who molested dozens of boys raised concerns about his sexual attraction to children before entering the seminary, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, child-abuse, catholic, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA child sexual abuse survivor has broken down while recounting to a royal commission how he was repeatedly molested by a NSW priest who "was like Jekyll and Hyde" and warned him "nobody will believe you because I am a priest".
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, maitland-2320, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior Anglicans, the Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, tells a royal commission he "let down" survivors of child sexual abuse.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, perth-6000, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior Anglicans, the Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, denies protecting a former priest accused of child sexual abuse.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, sexual-offences, child-abuse, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, perth-6000, nsw, australia
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A man who fled the country after a fatal crash near Newcastle 15 years ago is sentenced to 30 months' jail.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, karuah-2324, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA jury has been dismissed in a trial of a man who allegedly bulldozed a home west of Newcastle in an act of revenge.
Topics: courts-and-trials, newcastle-2300
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A Newcastle court hears a man who destroyed a family home with a bulldozer was driven by a desire to exact revenge.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, teralba-2284, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government says a report detailing the apparent brutal killing of about 100 greyhounds in the Hunter Valley formed part of its decision to close down the industry.
Topics: animal-welfare, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedPeter Andrews says he is squatting at his Hunter Valley property until its significance is recognised by the mining company and state and federal governments.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, bylong-2849, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, mudgee-2850
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| UpdatedFlood damage has forced work to stop on a major glasshouse project in the Hunter.
Topics: agricultural-crops, food-processing, community-and-society, work, refugees, williamtown-2318, syrian-arab-republic, iraq
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| UpdatedA dog food processor in a small New South Wales town says it will not survive the greyhound racing ban.
Topics: sport, animal-welfare, willow-tree-2339, newcastle-2300, tamworth-2340
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The meeting marks a major milestone since news of the contamination from the Williamtown RAAF Base broke last year.
Topics: defence-and-national-security, environment, williamtown-2318
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A Newcastle refugee centre is vandalised just days before its opening.
Topics: vandalism, refugees, jesmond-2299
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| UpdatedA man has faced court on murder charges after police uncovered a body in bushland near Newcastle in New South Wales.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, west-wallsend-2286, newcastle-2300, north-lambton-2299
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| UpdatedA New South Wales Supreme Court jury has found a man guilty of the murder of his former fiance in the bedroom of her home.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, newcastle-2300, bonnells-bay-2264, warnervale-2259, wyong-2259
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| UpdatedOlympic gold medallist Michael Diamond pleads not guilty to firearms and drink-driving charges, which threaten to end his hopes of competing in Brazil later this year.
Topics: sport, crime, courts-and-trials
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Both major parties are urged to put politics aside and help residents and commercial fishers today, not in six months time.
Topics: defence-forces, alp, liberals, federal-elections, williamtown-2318, fullerton-cove-2318, salt-ash-2318, newcastle-2300
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Olive growers in the New South Wales Hunter Valley are counting their blessings on the back of a bumper harvest that is in stark contrast to this year's disappointing grape yield.
Topics: agricultural-crops, rural, regional, pokolbin-2320