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Newcastle Seafood Festival crowns its first high-speed prawn peeling champion

Simon McCarthy
Updated April 14 2021 - 2:58pm, first published 1:00pm
FASTEST GUN: Karen Milner of Merewether was awarded the inaugural prawn peeling championship trophy after setting a blistering pace for peeling 12 king prawns in just 74 seconds at the first Newcastle Seafood Festival at the weekend. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
FASTEST GUN: Karen Milner of Merewether was awarded the inaugural prawn peeling championship trophy after setting a blistering pace for peeling 12 king prawns in just 74 seconds at the first Newcastle Seafood Festival at the weekend. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

It's a travesty of justice that we don't give out OAMs for services to dishwasher stacking because I have an uncle who would win it in a walk.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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