Port Stephens Council

you reckon Kiss was one of those moments then, the aha moment?

For sure, because it wasn't long after that that I got to see my first rock band, which was at Little Beach Hall in Port Stephens, which was one of those old, air force quantus huts that they turned into a basketball court and it was in little beach so it was little beach hall and they had a stage at one end and there was a band called hush and i went there i think it cost a dollar fifty maybe two dollars maybe even three, to go see Hush and there they were with platforms and glossy things and Keith Lamb up the front and Les Gock and the two, the Asian guys and Smiley Palenthorpe on the drums, the ginger haired guy and That, they blew my fucking mind.

And I went, that's what I want to do.

I knew right then and there that that's what I wanted to do.

We own the Pronto Junk Team, which is a junk removal company.

And what we do is remove unwanted items from homes and businesses from around Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens and the Hunter Valley.

Um, so yeah, we specialize in helping people remove clutter from their lives.

Um, so.

So I was all for it at the time to try and, you know, get younger kids into it.

And we fished that year, uh, you know, in that Boston Whaler, took it up to Port Stephen.

I think the first tournament we did in it, I think we ended up we, we won or we come second and we caught the young fella his first marlin properly.

And you know, I think then onwards it was, you know, it started to get more serious, so we sent the boat to Port Stephens, and I think we, we come runner-up by I think half a kilo in the inner club, the New South Wales State Champs.

And I think he, you know, it was ...

But he never, Luke, the owner never come.

So, but when that happens, the biggest thing is I was marking things on the sounder that I was thinking they look like sharks.

Yeah, thinking sharks maybe.

They're calling for a fully connected network of roads, buses and rail to link communities with jobs, education and health care.

Port Stephens Council has detected the region's first prohibited frogbit outbreak and over a 20-day operation across 25 properties treated 9,000 square metres of water surface and removed 100 plus tonnes of plant material to prevent it establishing in local waterways.

And Maitland City Council was expected to consider a motion at its meeting last night calling for a statewide push for stronger penalties against drivers who vandalise local sporting fields.

Councillor Mitchell Griffin is proposing the push alongside a request for dedicated grant funding to help councils install protective barriers, fencing and surveillance to prevent costly damage.

Oh, yeah

... about 17 minutes away from Newcastle Airport, and New- like it's kinda like m- just northeast, northwest, it's in Port Stephens, it's like-

Yep

... just outside of Newcastle way.

But it wasn't that...

Like, it was hard, but I'd been in Briggie's labour and mum and dad got divorced when I started high school and our school holidays became... on slabs in various areas around the Newcastle and Port Stephens area.

So I'd been brickies labouring for years on and off school holidays and then straight out of school, which is, it's a bit of a battle who, what was hard.

I'd say brickies labour, it's harder because you've got more chemicals and shit, you've got fire clay burning your skin.

It doesn't make sense.

So they go up to Newcastle or Port Stephens, I think actually is where Tomago is, but whatever.

Well, maybe it's in the Newcastle Council area, but whatever it is, they go up there with two and a half billion of taxpayer money, half from the state of New South Wales, half from the federal government.

and they say this will save 1,000 jobs.