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Getting inflation back to target is proving challenging, and the Reserve Bank of Australia may lift interest rates further on Tuesday to finish the job.

The full results from this year's great race.

Venues across Newcastle are hosting festivities.

Updates on breaking news, traffic and everything across the Hunter.

Near the end of the 2015 Cup race day, Sarah Finn, wearing a short blue dress and black stilettos, asked waiting media: What do I have to do to get on the news? - before shoving a top cop on his back.

At least three people have been arrested at the protest.

The first Tuesday of November may be most famous for the race that stops a nation - but Australias social scene ensured people stopped for a different reason.

Mick Robins lives and breathes horse racing.

According to an Essential Poll, just 11 per cent of Australians say they have a high interest in the Melbourne Cup, which is down 5 points from last year. 

Those decorations could become shrapnel-like projectiles in a crash, potentially causing serious, or even f...