New South Wales News

Opinion The week of bushfires has shown Australian citizens at their best, pulling together to support those in need. The same can’t be said for our leaders.

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News Scores of people from across the world have had their salaries and job details published online – including Australian employees.

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Environment Toogoom rural firefighter Peter Byster wrote this poem after a long shift fighting the Kilkivan bushfire in Black Snake earlier this week.

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Health Australians use these products every day but there is increasing evidence of the damage they could be doing to people’s health.

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Travel Aussie travellers could soon be getting direct flights to London and New York – and if it happens, get ready for some big changes to economy.

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Boxing Australia has reacted to the anticlimactic end to one of the most anticipated fights in recent memory, which left no one happy with the result.

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News Two Thai women were forced into sex work and kept in a Sydney ‘prison’ in appalling conditions. Today, their captor was jailed.

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News Locals say celebrity playground Byron Bay has a dark side of drugs, violence and homeless “psychos” which may have swallowed up missing backpacker Theo Hayez.

Health A mobile phone app has been developed by Kids Helpline to make mental health more accessible and relevant for young people.

Crime Moments after a sexual “rendezvous” with his aunt, a young man was shot several times by his uncle who had “lay in wait” outside his house.

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Travel It’s been in the air for almost 20 hours, but now the world’s longest research flight has done the unthinkable and landed in Sydney.

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Environment Racing NSW has slammed ABC’s 7.30 for what it says was a “false” program on racehorse cruelty which claimed horses were slaughtered.

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Business LOCAL businesses have been generously donating a number of items to help displaced residents and those affected by bush fires burning across the region.

Crime The shocking alleged incest of a family living on a filthy farm in NSW that stretched back four generations will be revealed in court.

News It’s already the best part of taking a trip to Bunnings, but now there’s an even better reason to grab a snag in the carpark.

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News A heartbreaking video of an injured koala being given a drink of water after getting caught in a bushfire has prompted an outpouring of support.

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Celebrity Hollywood A-lister Leonardo DiCaprio has turned to social media to depict the disastrous reality of bushfires tearing through NSW, QLD and parts of the ACT.

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Offbeat These women from around Australia have worked a combined 150 years for supermarket giant Coles. Find out their stories and why they don't plan to retire.

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News Have you ever wondered why some public toilets have a gap in the seat? There’s actually a vital reason for it that changes everything.

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Health Doctors are stumped after four-month-old Logan’s hands turned purple while on holiday on in Queensland.

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