August 20, 2025
Charity pig races raise key funds for Surf Life Saving Club The Jimmy’s Smash Burgers crew returned for their second outing at the pig races.
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Charity pig races raise key funds for Surf Life Saving Club

CHARITY Pig Races returned to the Tea Gardens Country Club in a fundraiser for the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club (SLSC) on Saturday 19 April. The biggest fundraiser for the local SLSC each year, the event aids the club to upgrade its potentially life-saving equipment. “We are aiming to raise as much […]

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The Big Screen
Film

The Big Screen

MARVEL studios unleashes its next great experimental flick this week, hoping that the Thunderbolts will capture new audiences in the same way the Guardians of the Galaxy did. Taking a page from their competitor DC’s Suicide Squad films, the premise sees several of the supporting “anti-heroes” from previous Marvel films and television shows thrown together, […]

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Stinker’s Fishin’: Time to go crabbing
Food

Stinker’s Fishin’: Time to go crabbing

OF all the seafood available to us I enjoy a good feed of blue swimmer crabs more than anything else. Crumbed calmari, mud crabs, fresh prawns, lobster mornay and battered fish are all hard to beat. However, if I am forced to select one, it would be a blue swimmer crab. For cooking, add half […]

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Stinker’s Fishin’: Holiday action Over Easter you will find me in ‘Stinkpot’ in front of the Outer Light.
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Stinker’s Fishin’: Holiday action

THE holidays are upon us and the good news for those who are hoping to catch a fish is that conditions are perfect. The beaches are alive with salmon, whiting and winter bream. Mullet are travelling north on their annual breeding cycle in huge numbers accompanied by a few predatory sharks. Mostly Grey Nurses, the […]

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The Big Screen
Film

The Big Screen

THE surprise sequel The Accountant 2 is being released this week, nine years after the first entry and reuniting director Gavin O’Conner with writer Bill Dubuque along with stars Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and J.K. Simmons. Affleck is the titular “Accountant” – a man who manages finances for international criminal cartels, but insists […]

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Stinker’s Fishin’: Welcome to the Marine Park Monster flathead call Port Stephens home and must be released over 70cm in length. Pictured is master fisherman Paul Lennon
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Stinker’s Fishin’: Welcome to the Marine Park

TO our many holiday visitors, a warm welcome to the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park (PS-GLMP). In place since 2007 the park has been designed to protect sensitive habitat and reduce pressure on all creatures inside the boundaries. Shrouded by skepticism in the early years of its existence, the park and the restrictions imposed have […]

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The Big Screen
Entertainment

The Big Screen

Sinners is a new genre film from Creed and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, starring his go-to guy Michael B. Jordan. When twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Jordan) return to their Southern US hometown after years away, they hope they can leave their troubled past behind them. Their homecoming is soured when […]

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