Top Ten Best of Newcastle

Living in Newcastle is a great lifestyle experience where excessive traffic, standing around in queues and that impersonal feel of a city is completely absent.  Here, you can experience the beaches, bush or backyard whilst still enjoying the simplicity and freedom of a small regional town.  We'd also like to introduce Hunter Valley Hampers - an award winning local business making Christmas Hampers for 2014.  Newcastle is truly an inspirational city in the midst of a transitional development stage.

Here I have collected a selection of Newcastle's Finest - from the obvious to the mundane to the quite quirky - you may be surprised but you certainly won't feel let down.  Enjoy the top ten of Best of Newcastle and share your feedback, thoughts and commentary in the sections below.  Let's share the Best of Newcastle for everyone to experience.

Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Newcastle Regional Art Gallery

Our distinctive venue can be tailored to suit your requirements from smaller cocktail functions to larger, formal events – all in amongst some of the Australia’s most revered works of art from the Gallery’s collection. You can also choose to enhance your guests’ experience with a tour conducted by one of our Gallery guides.

Newcastle Review on Lonely Planet

Newcastle Lonely Planet Review

Sydney may possess the glitz and the glamour, but the state’s second-largest city has down-to-earth larrikin charm instead. Newcastle is the kind of place where you can grocery shop barefoot, go surfing in your lunch hour and quickly become best buddies with the Novocastrian sitting next to you in any bar.

Newcastle Airport Flight Schedule

Newcastle Airport Flight Schedule

Newcastle Airport is 25 minutes from both Port Stephens and Newcastle, on the east coast of New South Wales in Australia.  We’re ideally located to access, within an hour’s drive, amazing beaches in Newcastle and Port Stephens; world-class wineries in the Hunter Valley; a world-heritage listed rainforest, Barrington Tops; Australia’s largest salt water lake, Lake Macquarie; and some of the world’s most famous horse studs in the Upper Hunter.

Newcastle's Civic Theatre

Newcastle's Civic Theatre

Newcastle is Australia's seventh largest city and the 1520 seat Civic Theatre is one of Newcastle’s most popular and prestigious venues which holds a proud place in the hearts of Novocastrians. Designed by famed 1920's theatre architect Henry Eli White in his famous ‘Spanish Baroque’ style, a visit to the Civic Theatre with its grand marble foyer and staircase, terrazzo balcony, beautiful interiors and historic main auditorium chandelier, makes for a stunning and unforgettable experience.

Newcastle Herald Newspaper

Newcastle Herald Newspaper

The Newcastle Herald - a tabloid morning newspaper published Monday to Saturday - is the only Newcastle-based newspaper serving the entire Hunter and Central Coast regions, six days a week.  Newcastle Newspapers, publishers of The Newcastle Herald, The Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Star, the Port Stephens Examiner, the Lakes Mail and the Myall Coast Nota, also produces a replica digital edition of the Newcastle Herald, Monday to Saturday.

Newcastle Tourism Information

Newcastle Tourism Information

A top ten city in Lonely Planet's 'Best in Travel 2011' guide, Newcastle is a city of rich history, quirky culture and amazing scenery. We've got it all; beaches, countryside, bushland and cityscape.

Newcastle Jets Football Club

Newcastle Soccer Club

The history of the Newcastle Jets FC is inseparable from the history of football in the Hunter Region.  The environment in which football was established in Newcastle and the Hunter, with all its triumphs and failures, has created a proud history, a foundation and a legacy upon which the club has been created.

Newcastle City Council

Newcastle City Local Council

The Council of the City of Newcastle was formed in April 1938 with the merger of Adamstown, Carrington, Hamilton, Lambton. Merewether, Newcastle, New Lambton, Stockton, Wallsend, Waratah and Wickham Councils.

Newcastle Unemployment Rates

Newcastle Unemployment Rate Graph

Newcastle as a traditional area of heavy industry was not immune from the effects of economic downturns since the 1970s. These downturns were particularly hard hitting for heavy industry which was particularly prevalent in Newcastle. As Australia recovered from the early 1990s recession, the economy of Newcastle did too and the jobless rate rapidly fell. However, it consistently remained above that of NSW.

University of Newcastle

Newcastle University Campus

When you choose to study at the University of Newcastle, you choose a world-class university recognised for excellence in teaching and research. Our degrees will prepare you for the real-world and are designed to expose you to new ideas, new ways of thinking and equip you with the knowledge and skills to be successful in a competitive global market.

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