Shotgun bought six weeks before shooting: court
Newcastle Herald
He said Mr Shedden bought the gun after an incident on New Year's Eve 2009 and a home invasion on January 6, 2010, when someone entered Mr Shedden's house and stole a decorative samurai sword. Mr White said Mr Shedden believed the Raymond Terrace Boys ...

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Promoter Remains Upbeat After The Aussie Music Festival Curse Claims Another ...
Tone Deaf
Promoters released a statement saying 'The decision has been a very difficult one for organisers who, as Canberra locals themselves, envisaged bringing a world-class party to the nation's capital for New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, the current economic ...

Fine for koala assault
Port Stephens Examiner
A MUSWELLBROOK man has been fined $500 for punching a koala in Port Stephens on New Year's Eve. Lawrence Orel, from the National Parks and Wildlife Service said the man was issued with a $500 penalty infringement notice earlier this month for harming ...

My lovely Lighthouse: A lighthouse keeper tells
Sail World
It was New Year's Eve nineteen sixty-eight, three days after my nineteenth birthday. I had come to this place as a relief light-keeper for the summer, as a 'holiday job' at the end of my first year at uni. The first real paying job I had ever had.

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Smoking ban plan for city events
Messenger News
Cr Plumridge said his push to ban smoking at events - including the council-run Christmas Pageant, New Year's Eve and Australia Day celebrations - was aimed at making the environment more pleasant and healthy. “All the evidence shows that second-hand ...

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