Santa visited kids at the Hawks Nest Reflections Caravan Park. All photos: Thomas O’Keefe. Gorgeous fireworks over the Tea Gardens Country Club. All photos: Thomas O’Keefe. RFS volunteers supervised the TGCC fireworks, in case any got out of hand. All photos: Thomas O’Keefe. Brilliant local fireworks easily rivalled some seen in the big cities. All […]
THE women of the Wednesday Craft Group saw off a very successful 2025, and are ready to start fundraising and giving again in 2026. “We were able to make generous donations to several groups that have a direct impact upon the lives of people in the Myall Coast area,” returned President Kris Whitely told News […]
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/Tea Gardens RFS members Aaron, David and Thomas out front of the Gallery, with the giant Mambo fish skeleton from the Sydney Olympics. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe.
Pindimar /Tea Gardens RFS members Aaron, David and Thomas out front of the Gallery, with the giant Mambo fish skeleton from the Sydney Olympics. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. Pindimar/Tea Gardens RFS Captain David Bright and new member Aaron Colyer are shown the big Reg Mombassa raffle prizes by Ian Morphett and Anne Stuart. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. […]
THIS is my 50th year in Port Stephens and I still feel like I am scratching the surface. Being a Fingal Bay resident for all those years I know every rock on the land and in the water. Fishing in my tinny everywhere from the Outer Light south to Rocky Point for all those years, […]
THE message from maritime authorities this summer was clear: slow down, stay alert and respect the rules as a statewide compliance crackdown puts jet ski safety firmly in the spotlight. Operation Cool Your Jets, a week-long joint campaign led by NSW Maritime and NSW Police Marine Area Command, aimed at reducing risky behaviour and keeping […]
Member for Port Stephens, and Families and Communities MP Kate Washington.
FOR the first time in more than two decades, foster and kinship carers across NSW have received a 20 percent increase to their care allowance. The increase aims to ease cost-of-living pressures and strengthen support for vulnerable children in out-of-home care. The tax-free increase took effect from 1 January 2026 and applies to authorised carers […]
The Italia Star aground in the middle of the harbour.
IT WAS in the early evening of Sunday March 15 1959, that a cyclone had built a huge sea with crashing surf and whitewater breaking across the entrance to Port Stephens. The sea was rolling into the Port as far as Corlette. Conditions on the water were extremely hazardous. Sydney based, Italian owned trawlers had […]
THE NSW Ageing and Disability Commission (ADC), in partnership with the University of NSW Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), has released a report highlighting the pervasive and complex issue of neglect affecting older people and adults with disability across NSW. Funding was provided by the NSW Department of Communities and Justice. The ADC is responsible […]
A RANGE of healthcare industry bodies have welcomed a Medical Board of Australia decision not to proceed with mandatory health checks for doctors aged over 70. In 2024, the Board consulted on options to keep late career doctors in safe practice, including through mandatory health checks. A total of 201 submissions were received. Australian Health […]
East of the Outer Light.
WITHOUT doubt January is the craziest month of the year in Port Stephens. We are a tourist town and we survive on tourism so for all the local business houses this is the time to pay the rent. For we fishers problems do arise including access to boat ramps and cleaning tables. There is an […]
