Newcastle
Newcastle pub shut down in night of violence
Police shut down hotel after several warnings and an officer being sturck in the head by a thrown object .
NSW hospitals worst place for Golden Staph
Dan Harrison, Amy Corderoy Patients are more likely to catch potentially deadly infections in some NSW hospitals than anywhere else in the country, figures show.
Police corruption defined by Chook's crotch cam
Kate McClymont Detective Sergeant Graham ''Chook'' Fowler shot to prominence - literally - on Monday, June 5, 1995, when a secret camera placed under the dashboard of a car showed him in his Stubbies pocketing a...
Train schedule revamp to come in its own good time
Nicole Hasham The state government is resisting calls to reveal details of its new train timetables after a leaked draft of the drastic changes sent commuters across Sydney into a spin.
Macdonald denies gifting mine to a mate
Linton Besser Ian Macdonald has denied allegations at the state's corruption watchdog that he "gifted... hot property to a mate", when he directly issued a coal licence to former union boss John Maitland.
'I had total authority' for mining licences: Macdonald
Linton Besser The former resources minister Ian Macdonald has insisted to a corruption inquiry that he had "total authority" to issue exploration licences without a tender, including to a company backed by former...
Fox was suspected as source of leaks, abuse inquiry told
Stephen Ryan Senior police were concerned that confidential details about the investigation into alleged cover-ups of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church were being divulged and detective Peter Fox was the...
Training mine was 'quid pro quo' for coal licence
Linton Besser A key financial backer of a training mine spruiked by Labor party figure John Maitland has told a corruption inquiry he ''never had any intention'' of running a training mine and planned instead to...
Colleagues paint a different picture of whistleblower
Sitting quietly in the public gallery of a Newcastle court, the man who sparked a royal commission on child sex abuse following a set of explosive, scathing and accusatory claims about the police...
Police colluded with priests, says detective
Jason Gordon A ''Catholic mafia'' within the ranks of Newcastle police colluded with church leaders to cover up sex abuse in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, an inquiry into the abuse has been told.
Eat of the night: Parramatta comes alive after dark
Nicole Hasham Parramatta is Australia's fastest growing night-time hub and foodies are fuelling Sydney's evening trade, according to the first national comparison of cities after dark.
Grant denies reference to 'Catholic mafia'
Jason Gordon A former police officer and current state MP, Troy Grant, told a special commission of inquiry into the handling of child sex abuse claims that he never used the term ''Catholic mafia'' and had never...
Dinner led to job for Macdonald's daughter
Linton Besser It was the $1800 dinner at Rose Bay’s Catalina restaurant that marked a new life for Ian Macdonald’s good mate – and his own daughter.
Catholic priest warns of bitter truths from sex abuse inquiry
Jason Gordon A senior figure within the Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle has warned that ''some bitter truths are coming'' for the church as a special commission of inquiry into the handling of child sex...
False advice was OK, lawyer told
Linton Besser A key backer of a mining company that received a coal exploration licence from the former resources minister Ian Macdonald told his solicitor to stop being ''such a bloody lawyer'' and allow a formal...
Boxing champ's wife enters the ring with a claim over Hayson's bordello
Kate McClymont Just when you thought the cast of colourful racing identities starring in Sydney's riveting equine scandal could not get any more garish, enter stage right - Suzee Fenech, wife of boxer Jeff ''I Love...
Story emerges at last as trio unravel words and whispers
Kate McClymont, Lisa Davies ''Everyone knew the horse couldn't win except poor Singo,'' said controversial brothel-owner and punter Eddie Hayson about the mail on John Singleton's horse More Joyous.
Memo reveals Maitland had plan to drum up support for training mine
Linton Besser An internal memo to the board of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service from 2007 showed former union boss turned multimillionaire John Maitland had formed a ''strategy'' to generate political support...
Maitland had training mine plan, inquiry told
Linton Besser The former chief executive officer of Xstrata Coal has told a corruption inquiry that the former union boss John Maitland had a "strategy" to use the concept of a training mine to get a coal...
