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Water Safety Tips

Water Safety is for everyone and applies to beaches, pools and open bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and dams.

Rip Currents

Most of the thousands of rescues that happen each year on our beaches are related to rips.

School Water Safety Education Program

Each year, lifeguards deliver our unique water safety education program to over 13,000 primary school children across Newcastle.

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City of Newcastle acknowledges that we operate on the grounds of the traditional country of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples.
We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and continuing relationship with the land, and that they are the proud survivors of more than two hundred years of dispossession.
CN reiterates its commitment to address disadvantages and attain justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of this community.

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