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An accused international crime kingpin allegedly at the centre of an Asian cartel that controls Australia’s drug trade has sensationally been dragged here to face trial. Fraudsters are ripping off the NDIS by up to $1.45bn a year with the disability scheme now the target of organised crime gangs, according to intelligence provided to the federal government. These are the results Australia&rs...

Sydney real estate is set to become a tale of two cities – a strong market for well-connected suburbs with large, quality homes, but a plunging market for everywhere else. Two of our most violent killers – baby-faced stalker Daniel Kelsall and caravan park murderer Kelvin Willmott – have not only become lovers in jail but want their relationship to be legally recognised as &ldquo...

Supermarket prices have surged by at least 12 per cent since last year, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph shows, adding $1400 to a ­typical family’s annual grocery bill. The Attorney-General has ­intervened in the case of a convicted paedophile and former pony club president who has walked free on bail while he awaits sentence. The father of a young boy who spent Wednesday miss...

Some of Sydney’s biggest ­private schools are set to have their funding slashed after the federal government started tracking the incomes of private school parents The energy crisis in NSW comes after years of gas ­projects being stalled, delayed and rejected by successive state governments Palliative care patients in NSW will get access to better care and pain management services as...

Recent homebuyers face forking out an extra $4000 a year in mortgage repayments this year amid growing rate hikes Unvaccinated teachers should be allowed to go back to work, Premier Dominic Perrottet says The bodies of two women in their 20s have been found in a flat in Sydney’s inner-west, apparently having been there undiscovered for several days. And Wests Tigers are set to step up their...

Drivers will get up to $750 cash back in their pockets each year as part of a major toll relief overhaul  Unvaccinated teachers are being paid their full salary to sit at home on gardening leave despite staff shortages plaguing public schools. The boss of the state’s premier cultural institution billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for meals at Sydney’s finest restaurants  A...

More than 10,100 staff will be recruited to hospitals and health services in the next four years of a nation-record recruitment drive to bolster the state’s strained healthcare workforce. The state government’s own addiction experts are calling for changes to drug laws to allow users to be given two chances at rehabilitation without criminal penalties. New laws designed to take away th...

NRL star Payne Haas will run on to Sydney’s Accor Stadium in State of Origin I to honour the memory of his disabled brother Chace, an ardent Blues fan who died unexpectedly in August 2020. THE farcical state of the NSW rural health system has been exposed by a bush town where women are told to schedule a mid-week Caesarean birth ­because of the risk there will be no doctors at its public...

A man with possible links to an organised criminal syndicate “washed” $60,400 through six gaming machines in under two hours during a suspected money laundering operation at a western Sydney bowling club. Teachers could be flown into regional communities to provide casual classroom relief under a radical state government plan to fix a staff shortage fuelled by Covid-19 and the ear...

Increasing Australia’s coal fired power output to cover a critical gas shortfall driving up power prices on the east coast has not been ruled out by the Albanese Government. Labor is standing by its internal complaints process despite a young woman claiming she was initially brushed off for raising concerns about intimate images she sent to  newly elected MP for Bennelong Jerome Laxale...

A young woman is concerned a newly elected Labor MP still has intimate photos of her saying she felt betrayed by the ALP party. An internal police investigation has begun into the “disappearance’’ of more than $200,000 cash from the safe at a Western Sydney police ­station. Fallen game show host Andrew O’Keefe has opened up to The Daily Telegraph on his what his days en...

A Power retailer has taken the extraordinary step of urging its 80,000 customers to find another provider immediately as it prepares to double bills in response to soaring wholesale electricity costs.    It’s been revealed teachers and students were exposed to asbestos at a Sydney school  for four years after a 2016 report identified a fibrous material as asbestos but the Depa...

Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed is talking to friends in what medical experts describe as an “incredible” recovery after being shot 10 times during a botched assassination attempt.  The national broadcaster has offered counselling to staff after a senior ABC producer stripped naked in front of colleagues, wrongly believing he had logged off a Skype call.  A polar blast is s...

State politicians who leave at an election could be given termination payments from as soon as next year under plans being considered by Premier Dominic Perrottet. A Three-way challenge for the Nationals leadership will determine the future direction of the junior Coalition partner, while the Liberals will appoint their new senior team in an ­orderly fashion. Tennis superstar Nick Kyrgios has...

The Sunday Telegraph has ­obtained video from the infamous closed-door practise match at the University Nevada Las Vegas which clearly captures former Australian netball star Liz Cambage elbowing her Nigerian opponent in the head and neck. WOMEN undergoing IVF will receive a $2000 cash ­rebate under an $80 million package of family-focused NSW Budget measures aimed at easing the cost of be...

An explosive State government report has uncovered “multiple” groups linked to organised crime gangs suspected of money laundering      Their horrific tragedy broke the hearts of Australia. Now Leila and Danny Abdallah have been asked to share their power of forgiveness with the world. Defence is being investi­gated after a group of 20 army cadets almost drowned duri...

THE mother of alleged domestic violence murder victim Mackenzie Anderson says she believes AVOs are “just a piece of paper” and has called for a major overhaul of laws protecting women in NSW. Promising to listen to the women of Australia and ­“rebuild trust” among those who abandoned the Coal­ition, Sussan Ley will seek to become only the second ­female deputy...

The new Albanese government’s jet set diplomacy will continue this week with foreign minister Penny Wong heading to Fiji Thursday to shore up Australia’s position in the Pacific. Peter Dutton has formally launched his bid for the leadership of the federal Liberal Party leadership, spruiking his toughness, his work ethic and his suburban values. Multiple alleged members of the Alameddin...

Anthony Albanese will host leaders of the US, India and Japan next year for the third meeting of the Quad security dialogue. NSW police and the state government announce they’ve skewered the ranks of the powerful alleged Alameddine crime clan. Hundreds of thousands of families face a $200 increase in their annual power bill from July. Shane Flanagan says he has “unfinished business&rsq...

Vowing to “do politics better” the Prime Minister will get straight to work on a national corruption watchdog, Indigenous voice to parliament and stronger action on climate when he returns from a Quad leaders meeting in Japan. Fallen game show host Andrew O’Keefe been granted bail to fight his drug and alcohol demons. A PASSION for wine and an outgoing personality is all you need...

Anthony Albanese will board a plane to Tokyo for a meeting with key global allies within hours of becoming Australia’s new prime minister, while his Labor team grapples with a brewing economic storm.  The surge in support for independents that swept Scott Morrison out of office and turned Sydney’s beaches teal from Palm Beach to Clovelly will put Labor under pressure to increase i...

Both major parties are heading to the polls with Australians undecided who would make a better prime minister, according to an election-eve poll.  Loved ones of a grandmother who died after waiting seven hours for paramedics have blasted the state government.  Taxpayers may end up forking out up to $28 million to bail out hundreds of families left with unfinished homes because of home bu...

Tens of thousands of people who tested positive to Covid before Tuesday face being denied the right to vote in what has been labelled an assault on democracy.  Terminally ill people in NSW will be able to choose when they die after parliament voted to legalise euthanasia A speed limit change on a key Sydney road has led to the total amount of low range fines recorded from $56,867 to almost $1...

An impassioned Islamic imam has warned Sydney’s bloody gang war could soon spill into funeral service....as he calls for peace at the gravesite of murdered criminal Rami Iskkander.   One of Australia’s biggest home building companies Metricon is set for crisis talks with government amid rising costs of materials and massive delays hitting customers.  Prime Minister Scott...

NSW police have sweeping new powers to knock down the doors of convicted drug dealers without a warrant in a trial targeting four areas across the state including Sydney's south- west.  The high-voltage power line from former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 hydro-electric plant is about to rip through his mother-in-law’s farm. A marketing and lobbying group attacking S...