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Harry Kewell is to be inducted into Australia's Sporting Hall of Fame next month.

Super Kewell kicks Hall of Fame goal

Mohen Govender

GOOD SPORTS: Pictured at the PCYC Morisset announcement this week are, from left, Rosmairi Dawson, Superintendent Danny Sullivan, Kay Fraser and Greg Piper. Picture: David Stewart

Shooting hoops with the mayor, police chief, state MP and PCYC manager | photos

David Stewart

Adrian Chad resumes batting form in Newcastle rep team trial | photos

David Stewart

Harry Kewell is to be inducted into Australia's Sporting Hall of Fame next month.

Super Kewell kicks Hall of Fame goal

HOME GROUND: Robert Holland batting at Awaba Oval in 2011. Picture: Ryan Osland

Bid to rename oval after Robert ‘Dutchy’ Holland

David Stewart

WELL DONE: Mayor Kay Fraser presents the winning team of professional lifeguards from Swansea with their trophy. Picture: Supplied

City lifeguards rise to annual challenge in the pool | photos

Weekend Planner: September 22-23, 2018

BUSY PROGRAM: The Living Smart Festival, at Speers Point Park, is always a great day out for the family. Picture: David Stewart

Preview to Living Smart Festival this Saturday | photos

FREE STUFF: Pick up a couple of native plants at the Living Smart Festival this Saturday, or from Morisset Library on Wednesday afternoon. Picture: David Stewart

News in brief: Where to get your free native plants

David Stewart

Weekend Planner: September 22-23, 2018

RECORD ATTEMPT: Singer Jai Waetford will be part of the entertainment when the mental health awareness lesson is live-streamed to schools in November. Picture: Supplied

Local students to be part of Guinness World Record attempt

MASTERCLASS: 2018 John Bell Scholarship recipients, from left, Kuda Mapeza, Niamh Corcoran and Abu Kebe. Kuda has been cast in 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'. Picture: Supplied.

Bell Shakespeare scholarship offer for aspiring local actors

STEM: The curriculum review will include a greater focus on the basics including English, maths and the sciences.

Curriculum under review

STEM: The curriculum review will include a greater focus on the basics including English, maths and the sciences.

Curriculum under review

Individual decision: Different studies have shown contradictory results when it comes to determining the best age to start. Photo: Shutterstock.

Deciding if your child is old enough

Individual decision: Different studies have shown contradictory results when it comes to determining the best age to start. Photo: Shutterstock.

Deciding if your child is old enough

Man of the moment: Santa reassures the children of the world that they have the power within themselves to stay on the Good List.

Santa believes in you too

Man of the moment: Santa reassures the children of the world that they have the power within themselves to stay on the Good List.

Santa believes in you too

UNITED: From left, Parliamentary Secretary for the Hunter, Scot MacDonald, with mayors Loretta Baker, Ryan Palmer, Nuatali Nelmes, Bob Pynsent and Kay Fraser.

Plan identifies Lake Macquarie’s ‘catalyst area’ for economic growth

BE PREPARED: Martin Campbell, centre, with colleagues Andrew Waterhouse, left, and Mitchell Davis of Peninsula Rural Fire Brigade. Picture: David Stewart

How to get your home bushfire-ready this weekend

David Stewart

Picture: Erin Jonasson

Scavengers warned off raiding the neighbours’ bins

David Stewart

RESTORED: AIF soldier William Kearsey in the 1920s. Picture: AWM E03092

Road to Remembrance

BUSY PROGRAM: The Living Smart Festival, at Speers Point Park, is always a great day out for the family. Picture: David Stewart

Preview to Living Smart Festival this Saturday | photos

RECORD ATTEMPT: Singer Jai Waetford will be part of the entertainment when the mental health awareness lesson is live-streamed to schools in November. Picture: Supplied

Local students to be part of Guinness World Record attempt

RESTORED: AIF soldier William Kearsey in the 1920s. Picture: AWM E03092

Road to Remembrance

HIGHER POWER: 20th Battalion chaplain Captain Robert Crawford, from Toowong, Queensland, conducting a burial service near Péronne on August 31, 1918. Picture: AWM E03092

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Weekend Planner: September 22-23, 2018

BUSY PROGRAM: The Living Smart Festival, at Speers Point Park, is always a great day out for the family. Picture: David Stewart

Preview to Living Smart Festival this Saturday | photos

GOOD SPORTS: Pictured at the PCYC Morisset announcement this week are, from left, Rosmairi Dawson, Superintendent Danny Sullivan, Kay Fraser and Greg Piper. Picture: David Stewart

Shooting hoops with the mayor, police chief, state MP and PCYC manager | photos

Adrian Chad resumes batting form in Newcastle rep team trial | photos

NEW TOOL: Drones will be deployed to watch for sharks, and swimmers in trouble, in time for the school holidays. Picture: Surf Life Saving NSW

Shark drones on patrol for October school holidays | photos | video

WELL DONE: Mayor Kay Fraser presents the winning team of professional lifeguards from Swansea with their trophy. Picture: Supplied

City lifeguards rise to annual challenge in the pool | photos

Jenifer Lewis.

Stars shine on gold carpet at Emmy awards

CREW: The guests at the reunion.

Remembering smelter days

MOVING OUT: The warmer spring weather has seen in increase in snake activity, including in suburbia. Pictured is a coastal taipan. Picture: Australian Reptile Park

Warming brings warning of snakes on the move | photos | video

David Stewart

Letters to the Editor

BIG DECISIONS: What will become of the foreshore, next to Royal Motor Yacht Club, Toronto, is the focus of council and resident attention. Picture: David Stewart

Letters to the editor

RELIABLE: Reader Carl Stevenson says only coal-fired power generators, such as Eraring Power Station, can keep the lights on without back-up. Picture: David Stewart

Letters to the editor

SPOTLIGHT: Failings of the aged care industry will come under scrutiny from a Royal Commission.

Advocacy groups applaud aged care Royal Commission news

Eileen Wood

Simply stunned: Michael Palin said he feels "incredibly lucky" to have had such a diverse career, from Monty Python to travelling the world. Photo: John Swannell

Michael Palin: Always look on the bright side of life

Samara Ross

COMMONPLACE: Close to one million colonoscopies are carried out each year.

Colonoscopy stories wanted

Samara Ross

TasRail suspends remote tech after derail

Govt thanks Cambodia for Ricketson release

Tiger sharks killed after Qld attacks

The baby meerkat that disappeared from Perth Zoo has been returned safely.

Police find missing WA meerkitten

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe will become the first leader of his country to visit Darwin since the war.

Japanese PM to visit Darwin: report

NSW Premier warns minister over spill

Hannah Higgins, Jodie Stephens

Independent candidate Kerryn Phelps believes Wentworth voters are very politically engaged.

Wentworth campaign a preference 'circus'

Some insurers were found to have undervalued quotes to rebuild fire damaged homes in Wye River.

Insurer 'used lowest quote' after bushfire

Megan Neil

Hamilton Island’s Qualia … a taste of what’s available through A&K.

Six highlights in your travel week | 21 Sept

John Rozentals

Why high fashion and travel make perfect bedfellows

Burma Lane … a place to dazzle your tastebuds.

Undiscovered Melbourne still surprises and delights

John Rozentals

Weekend Planner: September 22-23, 2018

The Makers & Technology Festival brings people and ideas together for the workforce of the future. Image Shutterstock.

Skills steaming forward

Get gardening: The winner of Australia's Next Top Gardener will become the face of Yates' new kids’ gardening website and their family will travel to the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show.

Gardens help kids grow