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| UpdatedA renowned flying fox expert says the discovery of dead baby bats along the east coast of Australia is the result of dwindling habitat and an acute food shortage.
Topics: animals, ecology, community-and-society, animal-science, animal-behaviour, newcastle-2300, bega-2550, melbourne-3000, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedA man is charged with murder after allegedly shooting dead his estranged wife in the NSW Hunter Valley.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, maitland-2320, nsw
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Newcastle will host the V8 Supercars 500 championships for the next five years, with the event expected to attract more than 80,000 visitors.
Topics: motor-sports, tourism, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Newcastle Jets sacks their head coach Scott Miller after just one season, ending his tenure three months after a wealthy Chinese businessman took control of the club.
Topics: sport, a-league, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedGreyhound trainers, whose lives have revolved around racing for decades, vow to keep fighting against legislation passed last night to ban the industry.
Topics: racing, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, sport, abermain-2326, lismore-2480
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior Anglicans, the Archbishop of Perth Roger Herft, tells a royal commission he would not report child sexual abuse allegations if he did not know the name of the alleged victim.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA former police officer brought in to clean up the Anglican church in Newcastle, which had faced years of child sexual abuse allegations, says he has "no doubt" harassing phone calls and attacks on his home were related to his work.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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A former removalist tells the child sexual abuse royal commission he felt "horrified" and "sick" when he found child pornography while packing the belongings of a Hunter Valley priest.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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A man tells a royal commission's public hearings he was 15 years old when he was first sexually abused by the defrocked former Dean of Newcastle, Graeme Lawrence.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA Newcastle lawyer and Anglican Church official says he did not go to police with allegations of abuse against priests because he was trying to protect the church.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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A clergy abuse survivor says Newcastle's Anglican church tried very hard to deny its duty of care while he fought for charges against a paedophile priest.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA man who was sexually abused when he was an altar boy in Newcastle says the experience continues to prey on his mind 40 years later, but the process of dealing with the Anglican Church has been "as abusive as the sexual abuse itself".
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA former bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle denies ever being told allegations that one of his priests, Peter Rushton, had sexually abused children.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedIn harrowing testimony to a royal commission hearing in Newcastle, an abuse survivor describes how Father Peter Rushton (pictured) cut his back with a knife to symbolise Christ's blood while he raped him.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA sexual abuse survivor and victims advocate urges fellow victims to seek professional help before royal commission hearings in Newcastle.
Topics: anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, royal-commissions, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedA Hunter Valley council says a development application for a controversial mosque complies with relevant planning provisions.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, islam, cessnock-2325, kurri-kurri-2327, maitland-2320
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| UpdatedA Williamtown resident says he has no choice but to sign up for a class action against the Federal Government after chemical contamination rendered his property almost worthless.
Topics: defence-forces, chemicals-and-pharmaceuticals, courts-and-trials, federal-parliament, judges-and-legal-profession, williamtown-2318, salt-ash-2318, fern-bay-2295, newcastle-2300
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Police say a man is in a critical condition after jumping over a railing and falling onto concrete at a Newcastle hospital overnight.
Topics: police, healthcare-facilities, waratah-2298, rankin-park-2287
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| UpdatedA smart phone app to help people with type 1 diabetes at mealtimes has the potential to go global.
Topics: diabetes, medical-research, computers-and-technology, information-technology, newcastle-2300
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There are fears the community will not get the final say on what happens to Newcastle's heavy rail corridor, if an administrator is appointed ahead of a proposed council merger.
Topics: local-government, urban-development-and-planning, state-parliament, newcastle-2300, raymond-terrace-2324
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| UpdatedA woman from the NSW region of Port Stephens comes home to find a koala has made itself very comfortable on her lounge.
Topics: marsupials, soldiers-point-2317
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The NSW Opposition says the Government cannot adequately fund refuges for domestic violence victims if it has no idea how many beds are currently available.
Topics: domestic-violence, womens-health, family-and-children, non-governmental-organisations, state-parliament, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA former council manager is sentenced after fraudulently approving invoices and receiving kickbacks such as an oven, refrigerator and coffee machine.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, newcastle-2300
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A truck driver, who hit and killed a cyclist in Wallsend nearly three years ago, has been sentenced to a minimum one year and 10 months in jail.
Topics: traffic-offences, death, courts-and-trials, cycling, wallsend-2287, minmi-2287, newcastle-2300
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The mother of a cyclist hit and killed by a truck in NSW tells the District Court her family is shattered by her son's death and she will never get over it.
Topics: courts-and-trials, traffic-offences, death, cycling, wallsend-2287, maryland-2287, newcastle-2300