Repair In Slow Lane

RESIDENTS say a year is too long to close a busy Newcastle road, and the last straw was watching the temporary fencing that closes off half of a large section of Newcomen Street come crashing down.

It Pays To Be Civil

Civil engineers are entering the labour market in record numbers. A 2007 Australian Bureau of Statistics labour-force survey says employment growth for civil engineers, over the past two years, is 47.7 per cent compared with 4.5 per cent for all occupations.