As the self-declared "Voice of the Hunter", the Newcastle Herald strives to provide a loudhailer for those in our communities with stories that have previously been untold or unheard.
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In return, we hope our audiences find familiarity knowing the Newcastle Herald will be there for them to help right wrongs, change laws, uncloak corruption, protect homes, rally for jobs, promote enterprise, save the environment and chase dreams.
Bringing change for the better can take years.
Joanne McCarthy has written more than 1000 articles in driving the Herald's Shine the Light campaign on child sex abuse in the clergy.
Still, it's not every day - or decade - you can achieve something on such a scale.
But there are causes to champion all around us.
It's fighting for a fair go for families forced to pay for the price for 100 years of lead pollution.
It's revealing the health and financial struggles behind a string of contamination crises, sparking a corruption investigation into land councils, uncovering secret government port deals, detailing the rise and fall of a local billionaire, exposing the crushing legacies of career fraudsters and helping launch a Senate inquiry into a medical catastrophe.
And sometimes it's as simple as helping a 72-year-old social housing tenant get treated with some respect.
Mayfield's Deral Black had been waiting for three months for her bathroom to be repaired. For three winter months, she was expected to use a unlockable portable toilet and shower in her front yard.
Exactly why it took so long we can't be sure.
We do know that within a day of Herald reporter Max McKinney asking questions of authorities, Ms Black received a call confirming that work would start.
This week, the work was finished.
Now even Ms Black knows this little episode was hardly the world's biggest scandal.
But it shouldn't have happened, she should have been listened to.
And when the government wasn't listening, we were happy to give her a voice.
And help change things for the better.
Have a great Sunday.