YOU are a bad parent. You don't care about your kids. You don't know what your children are up to. Everything you do or say is going to ruin their future. Or that's what I'm sick of hearing, anyway.

IMMIGRATION officials are preparing a 50-year migration plan to ensure that intakes consider a range of long-term issues such as climate change, water needs and national security.

TOBACCO retailers have been reminded of their legal responsibility not to sell cigarettes to minors, after 16 outlets in the Hunter, New England and lower Mid-North Coast regions were caught selling them to young teenagers.

LICENSED venues in Port Stephens are being warned to adopt strict identification checks after authorities caught minors drinking in Nelson Bay.

Police have resorted to calling parents to collect intoxicated minors off the street in Wollongong's northern suburbs.