In the 2017 local government elections, the ALP did well on the basis of a well-run campaign. The non-Labor forces got thrashed after...

​After a major accident in 1990, I spent six months in hospital. I gained a unique insight into what patients go through, and it really...

It is now four years since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. In the first few months of the pandemic, the stress faced by health...

When I left school, like most of my mates, I worked as a labourer at BHP.  Many years later, as BHP was closing, I wrote a piece...

There is a little known, but important story from the early days of the convict settlement in Newcastle.  Burigon, one of the leaders of...

Mike Stanwell was my best mate at school. He became a teacher (and a good one) in the Catholic system. He realised bad things were...

The GP Access Clinics established in the Hunter over 20 years ago have been a phenomenal success. It was extraordinary that the federal...

I was surprised when I sat down and did the numbers (based on the Council's own data) to find that making access to swimming pools free...

Don 'Ducky' Williams was an icon of the Labor movement in Newcastle. He was a great character and a great mate of my late father's. There...