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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has delivered Labor’s first Budget in almost a decade, sticking mainly to promises made during the election campaign. Common over-the-counter vapes being sold to school kids are packed with nicotine. Premier Dominic Perrottet vows to do everything possible to save the state’s $1bn food bowl. Sydney uni student pleads guilty to selling ­unlicensed supplements and ­injectables...

A bikie associate on bail over a shooting has allegedly cut off his ankle bracelet and gone on the run, sparking a major police manhunt. Health Minister Brad Hazzard will retire from politics at the next election. NSW faces being “short changed” by GST distributions. Protesters plan to disrupt Jordan Peterson’s speaking tour in Australia. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a...

The Daily Telegraph understands the victim was grabbed early Thursday near his home and endured the shocking ordeal overnight. UN prison inspectors have been forced to cut their controversial audit of Australian prisons short. Women are a central part of the federal government’s first budget. Local councils need to be given extra funding to help prepare for and limit damage from natural disasters....

Veteran Liberal MP and minister David Elliott will quit state politics rather than take part in a messy preselection battle to become a candidate in the upcoming March state election.  Gender-neutral claiming will form part of a modernised government-paid parental leave scheme which will be expanded to families earning up to $350,000. After a five year hiatus and a protracted court battle that saw...

Rising interest rates  hammer first homebuyers who snapped up properties in Western Sydney’s new housing estates. Companies that fail to protect Australians’ personal data will face fines of hundreds of millions of dollars. Dirtiest beaches along the NSW coast  revealed. Teen basketball sensation Josh Giddey is now a $6 million man. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subsc...

Victorian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe resigns from the leadership team following revelations she had a relationship with an ex-bikie boss. Medibank cyber attack branded “a dog act” by Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil. Fruit and vegetable prices expected to soar due to major flooding across Australia. Tim David is ready to take the Twenty20 World Cup by storm. For updates and breaking news thro...

United Nations prison inspectors were sent packing after they tried to investigate the Queanbeyan Court Cells without permission. Scots College students caught on camera using counterfeit notes in a bid to swindle an eastern suburbs newsagent. Bruce Lehrmann trial jury retires to consider its verdict. Proposal made to replace the current NRL transfer system with a trade window. For updates and bre...

Facial recognition security cameras will appear in all NSW pubs and clubs to keep problem gamblers away from poker machines. New venue granted a rare licence to trade until dawn. Anthony Albanese’s half-brother has opened up for the first time about their long-distance relationship. St George Illawarra’s Jack Gosiewski reveals he didn’t play another game of NRL after a heartbreaking choice. For up...

Premier Dominic Perrottet has vowed to raise the Warragamba Dam wall alone if the federal government refuses to come to the table. Former NRL star Brett Finch says he left vile child abuse messages in a desperate attempt to obtain drugs. It will take The Star casino 12 to 18 months to return to suitability to hold its own gaming licence. Des Hasler’s lawyer has fired off a legal letter to Manly de...

A convicted terrorist who threatened to behead a cop and once declared he was “at war” with Australia will walk free from prison this week, five years after he was jailed for an Islamic State inspired knife attack in inner Sydney.  Star Entertainment faces the appointment of an external manager to oversee its Sydney casino, but will be allowed to keep its operating licence.  Three people were kill...

RUGBY LEAGUE BOSS: OUR PLAYERS ARE NOT THUGS   The ARL Commission boss nsists the NRL is not gripped by a player-behaviour crisis following recent off-field scandals that have tainted the code’s stars as lawless louts.   Families will get a small return on their favourite tipple  with the State Government expanding the Return And Earn recycling scheme to include booze.  Two-time Golden Slipper win...

Sydney's latest stadium stoush has gone nuclear after a recorded conversation emerged in which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demanded to NSW Premier Dom Perrottet that a new Roosters sign at Allianz Stadium be “torn down”.  HSC students are now so crippled by anxiety about their performance during exams that an extraordinary one in 10 are now claiming the right to have a rest every 30 minutes. ...

One of Police Minister Paul Toole’s brothers has been arrested over his alleged involvement in a large drug supply syndicate, just days after another sibling was put behind bars on unrelated charges.   GEN Z HSC students are less likely to want to study academically demanding university subjects in the health fields next year... while a growing number are hoping to pursue creative careers like fas...

The NSW Police Force is a step closer to being more powerful than ever before, with the first round of a law reform package targeting the city’s crime clans being approved by parliament Tuesday night – ahead of a second round being rolled today.  Jame Ruse’s 26-year reign as the state’s most intelligent school could be under threat with a girls’ school predicted to take the coveted prize of toppin...

New rules will be introduced to govern how early entry university offers are given to Year 12 students, after Daily Telegraph audit. Warning signs will be reinstated before and after mobile speed cameras from January next year. A sea lion has injured two children in an attack near Perth, sending them to the hospital. Champion sprinter Nature Strip is set to become the first odds-on favourite to co...

Foreign-trained doctors caught up in red tape could help solve the nation’s crippling GP shortage. Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley has confirmed Novak Djokovic wants to return to Melbourne for the Australian Open, as the Federal Government weighs up whether to let him back in the country. Staff shortages could force restaurants, bars and cafes to close their doors for almost half the week, offer...

Tradies, emergency service workers, senior teachers and nurses would have their promised tax breaks trimmed if the Albanese government changed stage three cuts for aspirational Australians. Two major Australian brands are reviewing their advertising spend on KIIS FM in an effort to distance themselves from Sydney’s FM king Kyle Sandilands. A teenager allegedly sent SMS messages to Optus customers...

The Albanese government’s decision to repatriate the family members of Islamic State fighters has been slammed as “irresponsible and offensive” by members of Western Sydney’s largest Assyrian community, many of whom fled Syria and Iraq to escape ISIS atrocities. Plans to help floodproof western Sydney and save lives by raising the wall of Warragamba Dam have taken a giant leap forward, with Premie...

Three years after former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in a federal minister’s office inside Parliament House, she has returned to the capital to testify against her alleged attacker. NSW Veterans Minister David Elliott is appealing to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to reverse the “utter madness” of a government plan to bring the wives and children of ISIS fighters back to...

Penrith players have revealed the Top Gun inspiration which helped drive them to premiership success. Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin denies there is a rift between the company and the federal government and says the telco is co-operating fully with all investigations into a massive data breach. Household water bills will shoot up by $130 per year if Warragamba Dam’s maximum capacity is...

Penrith rules the west after joining some of the game’s greatest teams to win back-to-back NRL titles.  Jewish leaders have condemned Sydney soccer fans “in the strongest possible terms” after patches of supporters appeared to give Nazi salutes and jeered during the Welcome to Country at the final of the Australia Cup.  Eighteen people were hospitalised from suspected drug overdoses after taking i...

Covid isolation could be a thing of the past if Dominic Perrottet is able win his crusade today to convince other Premiers to scrap mandatory isolation for positive cases.  Troubled game show host Andrew O’Keefe has been rallying his “band of brothers” at a rebab centre. A Dover Heights father charged with having a shortened gun inside his family home claims it was a relic belonging to his decease...

The lead-up to Sunday night’s NRL grand final has been hijacked by a scalping scandal.  Sharks star Nicho Hynes capped a remarkable first-up season at Cronulla by claiming the prestigious Dally M Medal with the highest individual score in the award’s 43-year history.  The elite Knox Grammar School has been rocked by more upheaval with the resignation of its head chaplain over his relationship with...

High-performing teachers could be paid super salaries –while their peers will get no pay rise at all – under a bold plan to stop good teachers leaving the classroom.  Parramatta Labor MP Andrew Charlton has denied claims he just is a Bellevue Hill blow-in after his new Western Sydney neighbours said they had not seen him since the federal election.  Optus customers are are “furious” at the lack of...

The practice of teachers choosing their friends or the union delegate to conduct official evaluations of how well they deliver lessons and manage a classroom of students will cease after the state government put a stop to the practice.  It’s been revealed a husband kept his wife alive by breathing into her mouth and begging her not to give up as they clung to a tree in floodwater while holding the...