Retaining the $2 inland pool entry fee ("Decision looms on $2 pool entry trial as council deliberates", Newcastle Herald 11/6), seems fair considering the ocean baths have no entry fee and probably attracts even more outsiders as the inland pools. In addition, the East End will soon have an $18.4m waterpark/playground in the Foreshore Park. Will the council be charging admission to help cover its high maintenance costs?
Much is being said at present regarding local newscaster NBN after it was purchased by WIN TV, and it plans to reduce local news to a 30-minute broadcast. At first glance it appears to be just another takeover by a bigger organisation to shift decisions to a bigger authority. In some ways, Novocastrians have become accustomed to Sydney making decisions for us. I have looked beyond that here though, as for some time I have questioned the content of local news in NBN's nightly one-hour news.
