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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
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Dylan Nicholson

Did Port Stephens' jet-ski ban just push noise next door?

Transport for NSW's evaluation of Port Stephens' powered vessel exclusion zones has backed what many locals have said: the restrictions didn't get rid of the jet-ski problem, they simply pushed it to nearby beaches.

Warm weather brought a relatively small number of well behaved jet-ski users to Port Stephens at the weekend. Photo: Dylan Nicholson

The evaluation paired each trial site with a nearby "control" beach to isolate the trial's effect.

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