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Former swimming champion ­Michael Klim has been secretly ­battling an incurable and debilitating disorder that has resulted in him ­losing sensation in both his feet. An under the radar staffing crisis has hit NSW preschools, with a lack of teachers forcing some centres to close their doors and turn families away. One of Australia’s top law enforcers is under investigation, with suspicions he is a...

An assassin who was suspected of the execution murder of Australian Federal Police assistant commissioner Colin Winchester 30 years ago has been allegedly identified after a secret police ­review into Italian mafia operations in Australia.  Sydney home values  have shrunk in almost three-quarters of city suburbs over the past three months in what’s shaping up to be one of the sharpest property mar...

Boris Johnson was expected to resign as British prime minister last night– after more than 50 MPs resigned from his cabinet. The man accused of one murdering Leisl Smith, has died the day before he was to learn his fate in court. Plans to raise the Warragamba Dam wall to protect homes downstream from catastrophic flooding could be scrapped if Labor wins the next state election. And former NRL star...

More Australians will be eligible to get a fourth dose of the Covid jab. The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation made its call on expanding the second booster in a meeting yesterday. NSW Liberals are facing a critical pre­selection test in the prized blue-ribbon seat of Vaucluse ahead of the 2023 state election – with Woollahra mayor Susan Wynne shaping as an early frontrunner. The...

Three-quarters of NSW households face paying hundreds of dollars more for electricity this financial year after EnergyAustralia became the third power giant to dramatically hike NSW prices. After the Reserve Bank of Australia jacked up interest rates by 0.5 percentage points in consecutive months for the first time on record, homeowners are being warned to brace for a three-peat in August. Prime M...

Australia’s top doctors will urgently consider rolling out a fourth Covid dose to the nation as NSW’s Chief Health Officer warned a third wave could bring the economy to its knees. A maritime disaster in the Royal National Park appears to have been avoided, with three tug boats towing an unpowered bulk carrier to safety, after fears for much of Monday it would run aground. Anthony Albanese will vi...

Rain has once again smashed NSW, with more than 40 evacuation orders in place across the state as rising water levels submerge roads and threaten homes. Premier Dominic Perrottet has vowed to drag rail unionists to the employee relations watchdog after the latest escalation of a months-long feud between the parties. Homeowners should prepare for the full pain of a 50-basis-point hike in official i...

The woman offered the New York trade ambassador post only to have it ripped away and given to John Barilaro has spoken of her “distress” and fears for her  career. An Australian crime lord has risked a death sentence after allegedly masterminding the smuggling of a huge haul of drugs into Bali and is on the run from Indonesian police and Interpol. A strong East Coast Low is forming off the NXW coa...

Finding a GP is only going to get more difficult as the number of junior doctors applying for fully funded general practice training places has almost halved. Landing a foot on the NSW property ladder has become more challenging than at any time in the last five decades. More than 78,481 people in NSW have caught influenza this year and vaccination rates for children are at a low 25 per cent for u...

An unassuming Western Sydney student conned his way out of handcuffs and into luxury cars, “porn-star experiences” and convinced people to part with bars of gold. John Barilaro has withdrawn from his new $500,000-a-year position as NSW’s trade commissioner to the US because his appointment was a “distraction” for the government. Tolls could go up by nearly $100 a year for Western Sydney drivers, w...

A popular eastern suburbs naturopath, health influencer and online detox queen has been refused bail on charges of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old child. Agreeing to teacher union demands to give teachers ­already on six-figure salaries a 7.5 per cent pay rise – and ­giving them more time off class – will add an extra $4bn to the cost of funding public education over two years. Hundre...

Slain bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu had an ugly run-in with the mother of a Comanchero boss he was once accused of murdering in the weeks before he himself was shot dead. The Prime Minister arrived for the NATO Summit in Madrid-  sending the message if Beijing tries to impose its will “by force” it would face a unified resistance from the same countries standing against Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukrain...

Former Lone Wolf bikie Yusuf Nazlioglu was shot last night in Sydney’s inner west and was believed to be fighting for life. The face of Australia is rapidly changing with the latest census finding the population is growing fast, is more diverse and less religious. Passport chaos which has left travellers in all-day queues to pick up documents should be a thing of the past after a promised major ov...

Thousands of commuters will be left stranded this week with train services to be slashed ahead of upcoming industrial action by the rail union. The woman who was with slain gangster Bilal Hamze when he was shot dead left Sydney straight after his execution and hasn’t returned, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. Serial pests who have pledged to cause “mass disruption” in Sydney’s CBD today have told t...

NSW Police will recruit up to four State of Origin stars – and former NRL champion Sonny Bill Williams – to target the ugly postcode wars in Sydney’s west. A FORMER staffer for Gladys Berejiklian has admitted to sexually abusing two children while he was a teenager. THE Covid-19 vaccine mandate could be lifted for staff at most NSW schools as soon as next month, under a proposal to return at least...

BURNT bush is regrowing at twice the normal speed, a former state fire chief says, slashing the time before it is back to being a blaze risk. FORMER deputy premier John Barilaro was not required to seek approval from the parliamentary ethics adviser to take up a $500,000-per-year job because of an obscure clause in the Ministerial Code of Conduct which Labor has labelled a “loophole”. COMANCHERO b...

A woman has died after falling into a campfire at a campground in northern NSW. Unions will face dramatically higher fines for illegal strikes under a government bid to see off a “spring offensive’’ of ­commuter chaos, striking schoolteachers and health workers walking off the job. After her “unwise” speech contributed to derailing the trial over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins, legal experts...

With “gritted teeth” a judge has delayed the trial for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins after TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson “completely obliterated” the line between allegation and guilt in her ­Logies acceptance speech. A newlywed bride killed in a golf buggy crash on Hamilton Island during her honeymoon has been identified as Sydney woman Marina Morgan. Back-to-school subsidies worth $15...

An 18-year-old from Sydney has died after a horror skiing accident at Thredbo in the state’s south.  Lawyers for the man charged with sexually assaulting former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins have applied to push back his trial due. One of the companies contacted by the NSW government over plans to add another flagpole to the Sydney Harbour Bridge provided a quote for $600,000, raising que...

One of the guns used to jammed during attack Twenty suspected underworld figures have been identified by police as the “masters” of Sydney’s gang war  Australia will prioritise the purchase of nuclear-powered submarines able to hit the water the earliest, And The return of the Logies red carpet did not disappoint  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Under-fire NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean has been accused of ducking responsibility for the state’s electricity crisis  Australia's most popular female sport is on the brink of financial ruin World-class rugby league training facilities to develop the stars of tomorrow will be unveiled in Tuesday’s state budget And Global megastar couple Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have been...

All children in NSW will get access to an extra year of early education under a historic $5.8bn policy  For a third night in a row NSW households have been urged to conserve electricity in the middle of a winter cold snap  A plan to supersize a Sydney McDonald’s drive-thru with an extra traffic lane is being opposed by local health officials  And Superstar sprinter Nature Stri...

Hundreds of thousands of Australians are having their “faceprints” captured by major retailers without their knowledge, an investigation has found. Origin Energy would have kept two of Eraring Power ­Station’s four ­generators running until 2028 as part of a proposal designed to reduce the risks posed by closing the entire plant early. One of these Rays is not like the ot...

Households shivering through freezing cold temperatures across NSW last night have been urged to conserve power in a desperate bid to avoid blackouts Premier Dominic Perrottet has hauled two of his senior ministers into line  School leaders have vowed fee relief for financially stressed parents juggling interest rate hikes, rising grocery prices and spiralling petrol costs  And Nature St...

Police hell-bent on stopping Sydney’s rampant gang war are niggling their targets any way they can, disrupting the lives of kingpins with petty criminal charges – like hanging an arm out the window of a car. She was the hero who pulled NSW out of the darkest days of the pandemic and chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant says being recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours is a tri...