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Revealed: Colossal cost of high-speed rail line from Sydney to Central Coast
Confidential modelling underscores the challenges facing the Albanese government if it presses ahead with building a high-speed line all the way to Newcastle.
- Matt O'Sullivan
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Where you can buy a beach house in NSW under $1.5m, $1m and $750,000
The typical house in Byron Bay now costs more than $2 million, but buyers who look a little further along the coast can spend much less.
- Carmen Forward
Five years and $4 billion later, the verdict on our new intercity trains
The shiny new interiors, replete with faux leather arm rests and charging ports, caused huge celebration along the Central Coast line on Tuesday morning.
- Anthony Segaert
How Newcastle became one of our hottest food destinations (and nine places you must try)
With big-city talent at the helm, Newcastle’s new Bistro Penny joins several other venues making the Steel City a cracking place to eat and drink this summer.
- Callan Boys
Buck’s party gang rapists jailed for ‘degrading and heinous’ attacks
The judge described the trio as “professional young men from loving Christian families” who developed a “pack mentality” when they raped three women at a Newcastle Airbnb.
- Clare Sibthorpe and Sarah McPhee
Great-grandma, teen student, doctor: Kayak activists arrested disrupting coal ships
Eight climate campaigners have been arrested after they tried to paddle through a police water checkpoint into shipping lanes at the world’s biggest coal port.
- William Ton and Jack Gramenz
McColm confident Far Too Easy can clinch belated success in $1 million The Hunter
Northern Rivers trainer David McColm has his fingers crossed for a trouble-free run for his stable star in Saturday’s Newcastle feature after having to scratch him last year.
- Craig Kerry
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