The article is on the Greater Newcastle city as can be already seen by the Demographics section of the existing article The old population figure was a correct one based on the 2006 estimate but the census has since updated that information I have now fixed the figure according to the ABS statistics We ve already had this debate for every other city around Australia the Sydney article of course refers to the Sydney metropolitan area not just the City of Sydney area in the same way the Newcastle article should refer to the whole area not just the LGA If the article needs to reflect the other LGAs more then that s fine but we have a consistency to write articles more on their metropolitan areas rather than just LGAs we have separate articles for LGAs hence City of Newcastle