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JUSTIN Langer insists he had no issue receiving confronting feedback from captains, players and staff during his tenure as head coach of the Australian men’s cricket team. THE Liberal party’s newly-installed candidate for Ryde joined fellow councillors at a five-star city hotel for a “planning weekend” 13 kilometres from home that cost ratepayers up to $10,000. SIX out of every seven properties in...

NSW towns that have repeatedly bounced back from flooding since being settled in the mid-1800s now face an uncertain future as insurers abandon insurers abandon them, leaving residents in no man’s land. NEWCASTLE breakfast host Steve Grahame has been suspended following an alleged incident at the Australian radio industry’s big awards night. ELEVEN children were treated for burns — with two of the...

Desperate parents are urging NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell to ban the “plague” of mobile phones in high schools, claiming their children are being distracted from learning and struggling to make friends. THE state’s top cop wants to “do ­better” to protect and support ­victims of sexual ­assault, introducing mandatory training for all would-be detectives. The medical expert who studied for...

It was a flash flood that arrived with almost no warning, a “tsunami” that slammed into the tiny town of Eugowra. A SURGE in the number of athletes addicted to gambling is escalating the threat of match fixing in Australian sport at all levels by overseas crime gangs. FEDERAL Labor MPs are now as likely as their Coalition counterparts to own three or more properties, marking a definitive shift awa...

FIREFIGHTERS will refuse to enter new Sydney Metro tunnels after claiming key safety features of the mega project are below Australian standards. THE golden days of cheap airfares and low cost travel are a thing of the past with aviation experts warning high prices are here to stay. AN ugly, expletive-laden voicemail sent by convicted drug smuggler Michael Ibrahim to his sister in which he called...

GLOBAL security tensions are at their highest point since the start of the war in Ukraine after a missile crossed into Poland and killed two people. DONALD Trump has launched his third White House campaign despite growing opposition to the former president within his own party and multiple investigations that could lead to criminal charges. STATE Labor leader Chris Minns says the federal governmen...

AFTER dumping ISIS brides and their children  in their electorates – and refusing to address the concerns of the community – PM Anthony Albanese is now asking residents of Sydney’s west to dig deep and attend a fundraiser for the Labor Party, to be held in the very area where the returned terror brides have been re-homed. THE distraught mother of a toddler mauled to death says her little boy might...

SYDNEY’S peak hour trains are regularly running late and have not met their monthly on-time target of 92 per cent since May, the latest rail report card shows. MORE than a tonne of cocaine labelled “rat poison” and “plastic” was on its way to two addresses in northwest Sydney last week before federal agents caught the $440 million load. THREE young people suffered serious head injuries after a sus...

They say powerful figures in an international drug smuggling cartel took advantage of their old age and waning influence by sending them in as “stooges“ on a “suicide mission” to retrieve a $47 million cocaine shipment, their lawyers told the Downing Centre District Court this week. THE ambitious son of an Australian golfing legend is going toe-to-toe with one of the country’s most powerful men in...

The ARL Commission has tabled a landmark $1.3 billion deal that will make NRL stars the highest-paid generation of players in rugby league’s 114-year history. WIFE killer Chris Dawson has been called a “conniving monster” after he avoided eye-contact with his daughter as she told of the moment she had to explain to her daughter why her “grandfather killed her grandmother”. CLUBS and pubs across NS...

NRL clubs are set to celebrate a $300 million bonanza with League Central to deliver record grants as the warring parties move a step closer to brokering peace in rugby league’s funding negotiations. INTERNATIONAL cricket star Danushka Gunathilaka allegedly refused to wear a condom while having “rough” sex with a woman he met on the dating app Tinder, a court has heard. JIM Wilson says he is looki...

TEACHERS who put on three kilograms because they’re bingeing on junk food or who find themselves watching too much “mindless television” among other bad habits have been told to see a psychologist in an official bid to prevent burnout. THE Climate 200 federal election-funding juggernaut is facing allegations of hypocrisy for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors who made their wea...

LIBERALS are slamming the Americanisation of Australian politics after staggering figures revealed self-proclaimed independent candidates received almost $6m in combined funding from a single organisation. THE daughter of controversial surgeon Charlie Teo has accused police of unnecessarily calling in gang-busting Raptor Squad officers to kick down the door to a “relaxed” inner city house party an...

Passengers will pay an extra 20 cents on taxi and ride share trips until 2030 to fund an extra $260m in industry assistance under a final ultimatum from the Perrottet government.  An ageing hospital in Sydney’s southwest will get a much- needed facelift if Labor wins government next March with leader Chris Minns committing $225m over three years to Canterbury Hospital.  A senior cop in charge of s...

Sydney Airport has been hit by an invasion of elderly foreign drug mules who have told Australian Federal Police officers that they were forced into smuggling after being scammed and blackmailed by overseas criminals.  The only photograph that Kathleen Fol-bigg has of her four dead children – is a treasured, but battered newspaper clipping from 2003, when she was found guilty of smothering her fou...

It’s been revealed Taronga zoo staff risked their lives to search for two children who had become separated from their school group while a family of lions were on the loose.  Shane Watson has revealed in his new book that he spent ­almost 18 months after the tragic death of Phillip ­Hughes “petrified” that he would suffer the same fate.  Savagely killed by her jealous ex after weeks of stalking a...

Mulptile complaints from Sydney’s most exclusive taxpayer funded mansion have forced family events near the Botanic Gardens to reduce noise.  A shocking court case has revealed William Tyrrell’s foster mother was grilled in secret hearings over allegations she dumped the boy’s body in bushland after he fell from a balcony and died.  Every seven minutes a cyber crime is reported in Australia. Jacks...

Lions on the loose within 100 metres of families sleeping in tents caused panic at Taronga Zoo as their great escape gripped Sydney for hours yesterday morning.  Police are offering a reward of up to $1m for the capture of fugitive Rajwinder Singh who they believe fled to India following the horrific murder of young Queensland woman Toyah Cordingley.  Health Minister Brad Hazzard has taken the ext...

A major power struggle has broken out inside the Comancheros... The wet weather was not enough to stop a crowd of almost 74,000 attending the Melbourne cup yesterday, as Mark Zahra rode Gold Trip first past the post in the first Cup in front of unrestricted crowds since 2019.   A debt of several thousands of dollars may have been the spark for three men allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a man at...

A last minute decision to dress up and celebrate Halloween while holidaying in Seoul proved fatal for a Sydney woman killed in the horror stampede which claimed more than 150 lives. Furious Western Sydney leaders are calling for an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, accusing him of resettling ISIS families into their neighbourhoods without enough community consultation. Former Li...

The state’s year 9 boys have recorded their worst performance in NAPLAN testing of grammar and punctuation since tests began more than a decade ago while the latest annual snapshot reveals a growing crisis in our regional and remote schools.  A mafia-style standover cartel calling itself “The Commission” has warned Sydney drug dealers if they drop the price of cocaine, “we will go after your famil...

The upcoming second inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions for killing four of her children, will explore new genetic evidence. Premier Dominic Perrottet is tipped to conduct one last cabinet reshuffle before the state election. Parents desperate to have their young children vaccinated against Covid have been denied the right. The father of Broncos NRL superstar Payne Haas has opened up about...

Professor featured on explosive 60 Minutes episode on Charlie Teo says he was kept in the dark about the story’s direction. Ash Barty has revealed she suffered deep insecurities over her body image as a young tennis star. Federal Government focusing on regulations to stop cyber assaults. Buyers paying exorbitant sums at auction, despite a deepening housing market downturn. For updates and breaking...

Brittany Higgins accused rapist has referred her to police suggesting she could be charged for her speech after the jury was discharged. The medical records and banking details of tens of thousands of people have been exposed by a cyber security hack on Australian Clinical Labs. Housing affordability, energy and cost-of-living relief are top priorities for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The press...

Growing calls for the federal government to prevent spiralling energy costs, after the budget revealed expected 56 per cent increase. Home prices have plunged by the biggest margin since records began.  Crackdown on foreign drivers using overseas licences delayed. The breeder of Caulfield Cup winner Durston has questioned the Melbourne Cup’s status. For updates and breaking news throughout the day...