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Labor senator Kimberley Kitching was hurt by a “cantankerous cabal” in her party and “deserved so very much better” before her sudden death, her grieving husband said at her funeral yesterday.  Labor will abandon its promise to deliver working mums thousands of dollars for their retirement, allowing a system slammed as a “tax on pregnancy” to remain in plac...

NSW cabinet minister David Elliott has unleashed on his own party for allowing members to propagate a “woke” agenda that alienates ­voters. Adults must pick up a second language if Sydney is to become a truly “global city”. Sydney bikies are going bush in an attempt to avoid police scrutiny. Australia’s going into the third and deciding Test at ­Lahore wi...

Ex-NRL star Jarryd Hayne wants to be represented by the barrister who put the notorious Skaf gang rapists in jail. Questions are being asked as to why the Triple-0 network failed so dismally in the recent flood crisis. Thousands of teachers are preparing to walk away from the job because of the crazy workload and poor pay. A damning report has revealed childcare centres are feeding children f...

Jessica Nguyen may have one of the worst driving records ever for a P-plater with fines over $8000 and suspensions totalling 19 months. An online doctor company has been blasted by the AMA and called “unethical” for its links to tobacco giant Philip Morris. Investors have come roaring back to the housing market after years of retreat. One major health fund is ­raising the prem...

Former Labor MP Emma Husar has revealed the stress of being bullied by ALP powerbrokers caused her to develop a heart condition. The rail union agrees in principle to “pull back” industrial action in ­exchange for “intense negotiations” with the government. Cameron Munster is expected to reject Melbourne’s contract offer after being asked to take a significan...

Western Parkland City Authority Chair calls for those who don’t live in the west to stop trying to block thousands of new jobs. Man charged with raping former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins in Parliament House will apply to permanently stop his six-week jury trial going ahead. Keeping the state’s new ­intercity trains in storage is costing $500,000 every month amid rail uni...

A jerry can outside a Sydney boarding house is set to be a crucial piece of evidence for police investigating three deaths. Former police chief Mick Fuller has been cleared of any wrongdoing in owning shares in two racehorses. Commuters in Western Sydney have the worst access to public transport and the least number of services. Indigenous sporting icon Arthur Beetson is to be honoured with his na...

Residents are willing to sign safety waivers to return to the Mascot Towers complex if the government cuts off their rental support. A group of water bureaucrats spent taxpayers‘ money learning to laugh away their anxiety at the height of last week’s deadly floods. Petrol prices across Greater Sydney soar above $2 a litre. Parramatta’s Sean Russell will remain in hospital for sev...

Motorists looking to avoid skyrocketing fuel prices by taking Uber rides will be forced to pay a petrol surcharge as the federal government faces growing pressure to drive down costs at the bowser. The way Sydney underworld gangs communicate with major international crime figures through dark web-style phones can be revealed following significant arrests last week over the murder of Mejid Hamzy. C...

Defence officials offered NSW their help ahead of the east coast “rain bomb” on two separate occasions, only to be told they were not needed. The great Covid-inspired migration to regional NSW appears to already running out of steam TV presenter James Mathison has been charged with failing to hand liquidators the financial records from his media company And A University lecturer has be...

Elevated first floors or homes on stilts similar to classic “Queenslanders” could be the way of the future in flood-prone areas  Almost 40 years after his ­involvement in one of the most notorious bikie shootouts, a former gang member from the 1984 Milperra Massacre now wants to work with children Healthy people with mild symptoms will soon no longer need to get tested but sho...

Police Commissioner Karen Webb turned down at least a “dozen” other invitations to International Women’s Day functions but was guest of honour at her husband’s luxury Maserati dealership during the state’s devastating floods. Devastated flood victims will receive up to $18,000 in rental support and be housed in motor homes and pods while they scramble to piece togethe...

While her rank and file officers were risking their lives and pulling bodies from raging torrents on Tuesday- Police chief Karen Webb marked International Women’s Day as the star speaker at an event at Sydney’s flash Maserati dealership in Alexandria, which is linked to her husband. Prime Minster Scott Morrison has announced a massive 30 per cent increase in Australian Defence Force nu...

Sinking cars, fleeing residents, and a sudden waterfall on the Spit Bridge – Sydney’s northern beaches were transformed into an island of chaos as major roads into the peninsula were cut off with floodwaters. Shane Warne and his group of friends had a standard Thai back and neck massage in the hours before his death. Billions of extra dollars have gone into schools in the past decade b...

Shane Warne’s family have poured out their hearts to a “much loved and admired son, father, brother and uncle”. Communities plunged into crisis by the NSW flood disaster, including the evacuated residents of Camden, are bracing for D-Day with authorities forecasting a horror day of rain in already saturated catchments before conditions finally ease. Senior female MP’s on bo...

Shane Warne’s extreme crash diet has been blamed for playing a role in his “massive heart attack”, as new details emerge about the frantic efforts by his friends to save his life inside his Thai villa. Australia’s fleet of nuclear-powered submarines will be based on the east coast, with two NSW port towns short-listed as possible locations for the new state-of-the-art $10bn...

Shane Warne’s family is ­desperately trying to get his body back to Australia after his shock death in Thailand.  With just weeks until the federal election, Labor is scrambling to put together a “dirt unit” after a war game of its election campaign revealed the party has a lack of  research on its opponents.  A statewide program to put sanitary products in NSW...

New research has revealed 60 Sydney suburbs where more than two thirds of homeowners are in mortgage stress and living on a financial knife edge. They have no telephones, no power, and are running low on food and fuel — not much has changed for the NSW towns wiped out by floodwaters. In 1954, a raging torrent tore Lismore apart, leaving it isolated — and 68 years and countless technolo...

In a remarkable Noah’s ark rescue, a newborn baby, young children, four alpacas and 21 dogs were ferried to safety by SES volunteers as floodwaters turned swathes of Sydey’s southwest into an inland sea. Desperate principals are locking toilets during class time to stop students surreptitiously puffing away on vapes as a black market thrives in schools. Kristina Keneally’s b...

Sydney is bracing for a ­catastrophic perfect storm today that authorities fear may result in widespread and dangerous flooding across the city.  The destruction of Lismore was laid bare yesterday as the flood waters receded leaving behind a sea of stinking mud and heartbreak. NRL star Jack de Belin has ­revealed he  refused to ever consider the possibility of spending years...

A humanitarian crisis has unfolded in the state’s northeast with up to 40,000 properties evacuated and a woman in her 80s found dead in her Lismore home as the terrifying weather bomb heads south. Schools are warning parents that children caught with sweet treats in their lunch box face having them confiscated because excessive amounts of sugar are unhealthy and can trigger mood swings and d...

Hundreds of drenched and terrified Lismore residents clung to their roofs amid record-high floodwaters overnight as emergency services raced until nightfall to rescue as many people as possible.  The head of Sydney’s Mardi Gras festival has slammed plans for a permanent cycleway along Oxford Street, saying the nuisance path presented a threat to the future of the city’s iconic gay...

Employees who want to keep working remotely could lose their jobs to overseas workers, while businesses that don’t encourage staff back into the office risk getting left behind. Australia will help fund the supply of weapons to Ukraine and has “taken nothing off the table” to further ensure Russia pays a “heavy price” for starting an unprovoked war. Pubs and registere...

Footy star Blake Ferguson has ­revealed the torment of 29 lonely nights inside a Japanese prison where no one spoke English and he couldn’t contact his family or ­manager.  Premier Dominic Perrottet was not told about the decision to shut down the rail network as his most senior public servant was asleep when the late-night text message from a transport boss was sent.  It&r...

Ukraine has declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law as Russia launches a full-scale invasion with multiple rocket attacks on airports, ports and military bases, including on the capital Kyiv. There are more sharks off Sydney’s coastline now than there has ever been according to a  veteran fisherman . Joey Manu has been named Sydney Roosters five-eighth for a trial against...