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Bus and train services will be dramatically reduced across Sydney again today  Chris Dawson’s face got redder and redder as Justice Ian Harrison tore his ­defence to shreds Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott will join the high-profile line-up at the Albanese government’s landmark Jobs and Skills summit  And Convicted South Australian drug trafficker Cassandra “Cocaine Cassie” Sainsbury has arrive...

The once high-flying footballer, model and high school teacher Chris Dawson will today face a judge and learn his fate  Stage three tax cuts will live another day under the federal Labor government  Get in early enough to the historic first two nights of footy at the new Allianz Stadium and you’ll be able to drink up at 49 per cent off the usual prices. And Leichardt Oval will quickly become unfit...

The new Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park had its official opening Comanchero bikie heavyweight Tarek Zahed has been dramatically arrested by police in Sydney over a 2014 murder Disgraced prison boss Wayne ­Astill, known as the Silver Fox, has spent his first nights on the other side of the prison bars  And The number of NSW residents who vape has gone up by almost seven times in just four yea...

More than $7 billion worth of ice is being taken a year as use of the drug infiltrates all classes  Asylum seeker turnbacks, tax cuts and the recognition of Palestine are among a slew of contentious Federal government policy positions under threat after a successful power grab by the ALP Left. This year’s NAPLAN results have been delayed after Covid, the flu wave and flooding resulted in a record...

Regional NSW will get a vital injection of healthcare workers A silent pandemic devastating lives is also having a serious impact on the economy,  Former drug dealer and Sydney restaurateur Richard Buttrose has won a secret payout from Corrective Services NSW  And Wayne Bennett has blasted critics of the Dolphins following accusations Redcliffe has become one of the NRL’s most despised teams  See...

Patients needing emergency care in a regional NSW hospital are “taking their lives in their own hands”, as staff short­ages across the bush reach crisis point. About 170 homes in NSW have been left unfinished following the failure of Oracle Building Corporation Workers who choose not to join their trade union would be forced to pay a fee worth hundreds of dollars anyway  And For someone who makes...

Australian woman Cheng Lei, who has been held in a Chinese jail for more than two years on national ­security charges, fears her eyesight has deteriorated  John Farnham faces a long road to recovery following a 10-hour surgery to treat cancer. At just 22, Geordie Horan has already been to too many funerals, all for mates who have taken their own lives And Wayne Bennett has revealed his interest in...

Regional mayors are begging for the NSW government to overthrow archaic planning laws in a bid to solve the housing crisis in the bush. A woman who was in a relationship with fallen cricket legend Michael Slater says he threatened to publish personal images without her consent among other things Missing toddler William Tyrrell’s foster parents have been charged over allegedly enlisting someone to...

Elderly residents in the bush are being forced out of the towns they have called home their entire lives and into nursing homes hours away or hospital beds, as the regional aged care system buckles amid a lack of ­investment and surging demand. NSW Police are now working to prevent alleged organised crime groups in Bankstown and Punchbowl. Qantas will gift most of its 14 million frequent flyers a...

Lametta Fadlallah’s killers are believed to have paid $500,000 to take out the gangster mum in a plot motivated by revenge, underworld sources said. Paul Green’s shattered parents have opened up about the pain of the NRL legend’s death and the memories they have of their “baby boy”. More than half the country’s disability employment providers will be wholly or partially dumped by the federal gover...

Teachers, childcare workers and coaches were among the men arrested in Australia’s largest online child abuse probe.  Cashed up home buyers have been shelling out record sums for Sydney’s best homes despite soaring interest rates pulling the market into a slump expected to last well into next year. Waiting lists for children needing surgery have blown out by as much as 52 per cent compared to last...

The NRL grand final is up for sale in a Super Bowl-style bidding war after league boss Peter V’landys awarded the decider to Sydney for this season only. Colouring-in posters given to Year 1 students at a NSW primary school accusing Australians of genocide have been called “indoctrination” and “propaganda”. Shark nets will remain on Australia’s most famous beach despite calls from the Green and La...

THE school playground is becoming the recruitment centre for teenagers looking to radicalise vulnerable and lonely kids, A SYDNEY mayor whose council takes in Bondi Beach wants shark nets removed this summer despite only one fatal attack occurring on a pro­tected beach since nets were introduced in NSW almost 100 years ago. KISS rock gods Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have landed, vowing to make t...

Four men walked up to a car and told a teenage girl to wind down her window before one pushed her head out of the way and pumped 15 bullets into the back seat, killing two women. A Sydney man has been shot dead in Los Angeles in a ­shocking incident that local ­investigators are treating as a homicide. Disgraced former NRL star Brett Finch used an online sex chat service to send sick messages abou...

The 2022 NRL grand final could still be held in Brisbane, with rugby league boss Peter V’landys rubbishing a report on Monday night a deal had been struck to keep the fixture in Sydney. Slain underworld mum Lametta Fadlallah was on the way to an engagement party at her boyfriend’s nearby restaurant when she and her friend Amy Hazouri were gunned down. Senior ministers in the former Coalition gover...

Lametta Fadlallah knew the criminal world was a dangerous, even deadly, place to be but she chose to live in it all her adult life, marrying two big-time gangsters and she was ultimately gunned down like so many Sydney underworld figures before her. Opposition politicians would be forced to disclose who they meet with under NSW government legislation to crack down on secret lobbying. A proposed de...

Starting with NRL and Penrith’s Nathan Cleary has surpassed Daly Cherry Evans as the highest-paid player in the game.  A landmark report by the state’s top water expert says Raising the Warragamba Dam wall is the best way to protect western Sydney from more devastating floods  The former head of the ADF says senior defence force personnel should not be asked to become “amateur psychiatrists” to he...

Three heartbroken families whose loved ones were killed in horrific road crashes are calling for changes to the state’s “pathetic” sentencing laws.  A bloody power struggle between Sydney Hells Angels and their Thai counterparts has sparked a recent shooting that threatens to tear the gang apart and reignite a long-term feud. Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne has pinned his hopes for freedom on an...

Paul Green was celebrating his young son’s birthday party just 24 hours before the sudden death of the premiership-winning Cowboys coach that has rocked the NRL fraternity.  The children of Australian business journalist Cheng Lei, who was detained by Chinese authorities two years go say that not a day goes by where they don’t miss their mum.   Manly Sea Eagles hooker Manase Fainu has sensationall...

China’s top diplomat in Australia says the rights of jailed journalist Cheng Lei are “well protected” despite her secret trial with no verdict, as he also denied Beijing seeks to dominate the Indo-Pacific. A patchwork of laws covering sexual assault and defining coercive control would be unified across states and territories under an ambitious plan to better protect victims of domestic and family...

Olivia Newton-John’s global musical family has flooded social media with tributes. The star’s leading man in Grease, John Travolta, led the outpouring of love for Livvy, as news of her shock death swept the world. Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has urged newspaper columnist Peter FitzSimons to publicly release the audio of their recent phone interview, during which she claims she felt...

Three of the NSW government’s most senior figures knew that John Barilaro was interested in a $500,000-a-year New York trade role but none of them raised any concerns about the former deputy premier applying for the job, a parliamentary inquiry has heard. A woman was stabbed in the chest, allegedly by a family friend, in the doorway of her eastern suburbs home before she managed to pry the knife o...

Working families who are loading their children into cars and tents for a life on the streets are the face of a new generation of homelessness – a crisis which is decimating the middle class amid urgent calls for affordable housing. An obsessive fan has been charged with stalking one of the country’s top models after allegedly repeatedly turning up uninvited at events where she was appearing. The...

Australian outlaw motorcycle gangs are making $8 million a day from the sale of cocaine and ice, with new international business models turning them into billion-dollar bikies.  A teen girl raped by one of her peers at a party had to walk past her attacker in the school hallways for months, with her parents calling for schools to introduce tough new measures to protect students like her.  Desperat...

An emergency council called “Hawk” will be established to respond to catastrophes as the NSW government reveals it may cost a staggering $3 billion to buy back and swap flood-impacted properties. Punters suspected of money laundering would be banned from all pubs and clubs under a raft of options being considered by the NSW Crime Commission to clean up the industry. The premium you now have to pay...