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A child sexual abuse survivor tells a royal commission he was subjected to "humiliation, fear and violence" at the hands of a Catholic teacher in the NSW Hunter region.
Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, hamilton-2303
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| UpdatedThe country's largest after-school care company, Camp Australia, is banned from tendering for new contracts or renewing existing contracts at government schools in New South Wales for failing to meet quality requirements.
Topics: primary-schools, child-care, newcastle-2300, wa, vic
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A Newcastle family twice impacted by breast cancer is fundraising to better support others affected by the disease.
Topics: breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, women, community-and-society, family-and-children, newcastle-2300, nsw
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| UpdatedTrampolines fly into powerlines and a lightning strike reportedly causes a house fire as a severe thunderstorm tracks from Sydney all along the coast up to northern New South Wales.
Topics: storm-event, weather, sydney-2000, grafton-2460, newcastle-2300, armidale-2350, taree-2430, gosford-2250, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedSydney FC remains unbeaten through the first nine games of the A-League season after a 2-0 win over the Jets in Newcastle.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, newcastle-2300, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Milking robots on a NSW Mid North Coast dairy have contributed to an increase in milk production of 25 per cent in the last 12 months.
Topics: dairy-production, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, livestock, rural, taree-2430, newcastle-2300, sweden
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Police in Newcastle raid an inner-city unit where medicinal cannabis was being grown, seizing hundreds of plants.
Topics: cannabis, health, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedDouble murder inquest in Newcastle hears two proposed witnesses have died and one is missing.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, caves-beach-2281, newcastle-2300
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Seven years after it was launched as the Supercars' attempt to crack a busy Sydney sports market, the Sydney 500 will be run for the last time this weekend.
Topics: australian-touring-cars, motor-sports, sport, sydney-2000, newcastle-2300, nsw, australia
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There is more evidence of a worsening ice scourge, with a biohazard cleaning service saying it now gets daily clean-up and testing requests relating to meth lab activity.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, health, community-and-society, newcastle-2300
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A woman speaks of her debilitating grief since her husband was killed in a road rage attack near Newcastle.
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| UpdatedGrazing peacefully on pastures just outside Muswellbrook in the NSW Upper Hunter, around 50 retired racehorses have found a new home at St Heliers Correctional Centre.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, animals, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, human-interest, horse-racing, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300
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The Newcastle Knights say the salary amount set to be paid to new signing Kalyn Ponga has been exaggerated in the media.
Topics: nrl, sport, newcastle-2300
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A child abuse survivor says his biggest fear is that the momentum generated by the child abuse royal commission will dissipate, stopping any meaningful reform.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, catholic, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, wagga-wagga-2650, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedMarco Rojas's second-half double sends Melbourne Victory to second on the A-League table, breaking the deadlock in a 2-0 win over Newcastle Jets.
Topics: sport, soccer, a-league, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw, newcastle-2300, australia
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| UpdatedBishop Greg Thompson says members of the Newcastle Anglican diocese acted like a Sopranos-style protection racket when it dealt with sex abuse complaints.
Topics: anglicans, religion-and-beliefs, child-abuse, royal-commissions, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Anglican bishop of Newcastle, Greg Thompson, tells a royal commission a priest said in the 1970s he would "get ahead" in the church if he offered sexual favours.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, wagga-wagga-2650, australia, nsw
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Topics: domestic-violence, community-and-society, newcastle-2300
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Former Newcastle Knights player Clint Newton is standing up against domestic violence as a White Ribbon Day ambassador.
Topics: domestic-violence, community-and-society, newcastle-2300
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Electricity distributor Essential Energy now has the power to forcibly cut 600 jobs from regional NSW communities after a key ruling by the Fair Work Commission, a union says.
Topics: industrial-relations, electricity-energy-and-utilities, wagga-wagga-2650, broken-hill-2880, port-macquarie-2444, dubbo-2830, tamworth-2340, bourke-2840, lismore-2480, newcastle-2300, griffith-2680, wollongong-2500, bega-2550, orange-2800