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The battle for Western Sydney kicks off this week as the two men vying to be Australia’s prime minister  The greatest comeback in Australian sporting history just had its second coming, with tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes becoming a co-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs Shoppers are being urged to begin hunting for their Christmas presents as soon as possible amid supply  is...

Even a modest interest rate rise would send many homeowners who bought recently at high prices in hundreds of NSW areas into severe mortgage stress  Returned travellers now owe the NSW government more than $110 million in quarantine hotel fees When police switched a $186 million shipment of narcotics with a load of house bricks they didn’t expect to start an internal war inside a drug s...

Tax cuts worth $1080 to millions of Australians could be extended to avert a hip-pocket hit to low and middle-income earners after next year’s ­election. A 13 y/o girl caught lighting a fire in Western Sydney will come face-to-face with firefighters, police and a victim of a devastating arson attack Australia's longest ever zip-line will be created on the edge of Sydney  And An unde...

New world-leading capabilities created by the Australian Federal Police provided the crucial last piece of information that led to Mostafa Baluch’s return  Abti-coal activists are costing the economy millions of dollars by crippling the Hunter’s rail network  At least half of all Australia’s population growth should be in the regions under a bold push from the Nationals...

Accused drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch was planning to sail from far north Queensland to Indonesia and then to Thailand, before finally taking a flight to eastern Europe to see powerful crime friends. A rain bomb has swept through NSW and triggered flooding in parts as the state braces for more than a month’s worth of rainfall in just three days. The crippled Inner West Light Rail fleet was dee...

Sydney’s spring racing carnival now boasts the two richest races in the nation with the Golden Eagle receiving a prizemoney boost to $8m from next year.  A new billion-dollar fund will invest in low emissions steel, aluminium, livestock feed, batteries and other technologies in a bid to ensure Australian green business ideas can compete globally. Questions about an actress, tweezers and...

A senior member of the Finks bikie gang allegedly caught with a handgun while on bail for other offences was released back into the community by a Sydney magistrate the next day  Australia will be “cautious” in approving Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11  With a blitz of regional NSW featuring hard hats, factory tours and group selfies, Prime Minist...

Children aged five to 11 are unlikely to get a Covid-19 vaccine before the end of the school year, with the summer holidays looming as a nightmare for families as unvaccinated kids are subjected to longer quarantine.  The father of twin daughters who died in a blaze had returned with his girlfriend from a bonfire at her Byron Bay commune to find smoke billowing from the bedroom where they sle...

A Sydney mother is sickened and revolted after her family photos were allegedly “stolen” and used in fake accounts belonging to the man ­accused of kidnapping Cleo Smith. Dick Smith and  wife Pip will this week give $5 million to 66 charities they have supported over the past 30 years. In sport, Parramatta is  considering handing ­Curtis Scott a lifeline next season....

Sydney’s inner west light rail has been shut down for up to 18 months after cracking was found in all 12 vehicles. Childcare waiting lists are growing longer as working parents flock back to the office – but many centres are now struggling to find staff due to “no jab, no job’’ rules. Authorities have taken the dramatic step of ordering a Sydney nightclub to shut afte...

Cleo Smith’s alleged abductor collects Bratz dolls and is pictured on social media wearing a shirt with cartoons on it. Drivers are set to find it easier to get a car park and people with unused driveways and parking spaces will be able to make extra cash on the side through the state government’s new Park’nPay app. Sydney pubs and bars are in a war for staff with young job-hunte...

With just four words, 18 days of horror for one family was brought to a close and gave tear-filled joy to a nation that had held its collective breath. Australia will not apologise to France over the handling of a dumped $90 billion submarine contract  Thousands of offenders skipped bail last year but only 8 per cent of them had been made to lodge a financial ­surety with the court to ens...

Chris Waller sat in silence, watching in awe, as his champion mare Verry Elleegant raced clear in the Melbourne Cup. But all around him was sheer pandemonium. His wife, Stephanie, and their children, Tyler and Nikita, were doing the cheering for the trainer. A staggering 92 per cent of public schools selected under a government program to boost renewable energy are in the Coalition’s own sea...

French President Emmanuel Macron knew long ago his country’s deal to build submarines for Australia was in trouble but “he just didn’t want to hear it”, despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison being upfront about issues even before the AUKUS arrangement was inked.  One in five maths classes in some rural areas of NSW are taught by teachers who lack any maths training in a situation bureaucrats admit...

Secret phone conversation reveals former premier Gladys Berejiklian boasted to her then lover Daryl Maguire how she got “$170m in five minutes” for Wagga Wagga hospital.  There has been a surge of first-home buyer ­activity across pockets of Sydney’s northwest, southeast and suburbs on the city’s outer fringes. Australia is hoping for a Kiwi tourist boom this Christmas with quarantine-free travel...

An explosive day of evidence at the corruption watchdog has revealed Gladys Berejik­lian told Daryl Maguire she would command $140 million out of Dominic Perrottet Rolling strikes at the country’s busiest container port are set to continue for at least another month Australia's brewers want the Government to follow the lead of its UK counterpart and cut the tax rate on draught beer  And From cash...

The proposed new drugs laws designed to give users a second chance would work out tougher than the current system Gladys Berejiklian discussed marrying secret lover Daryl Maguire and having a child with him, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has heard. A thriving regional Australia and net-zero emissions are not mutually exclusive, but leaders must be “honest” with fossil fuel workers...

Members of the Alameddine and Hamze crews are trying to escape Sydney with police targeting anyone close to the two gangs following last week’s double murder. NSW has rejected a decade of pressure to conserve water in the Murray-Darling Basin at all costs, slamming the current state of the plan as ­“environmental vandalism”.  An Eastern Suburbs gym has lost hundreds of members who quit over its Co...

Police are investigating whether a late night private jet flight from Bankstown Airport is how  alleged drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch fled Sydney only hours after cutting off his tracking bracelet on Monday night. Sydney’s revamped spring racing carnival and its cache of new big-money races are proving a smash-hit with punters. Summer Bay soap star Lynne McGranger has revealed her old habit of regul...

The love child of the late Australian cricket legend Dean Jones is suing his widow for a slice of the family’s estate. A multimillion-dollar grant to a Wagga Wagga gun club championed by Daryl Maguire would not have been ­approved by cabinet’s expenditure review committee if Gladys Berejiklian had disclosed she was in a secret relationship with the disgraced MP. Pregnant women in regional areas ar...

A spate of by-elections to replace up to five outgoing NSW MPs are unlikely to be held until February next year. Country NSW hospitals forced to care for sick patients without any ­doctors physically present in the building. The Nationals back Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s net zero emissions target by 2050. Wests Tigers’ director of football Tim Sheens has tried to douse the speculation over Luk...

Year 12 students are at risk of descending into drinking, smoking and eating disorders as they battle deteriorating mental health. Hereditary disease genetic testing will now be covered by Medicare. A Sydney couple resell home they recently bought, with a hefty profit. Former NRL prodigy Luke Goodwin has spoken for the first time about the car crash that claimed Ben Alexander’s life in 1992. For u...

Soaring property prices have turned more than a million NSW homeowners into millionaires. Boxing Day sales mayhem unlikely this year as retail struggles. Alec Baldwin seen traumatised after tragic set accident with prop gun. The Matildas’ have prompted other sports to move towards reporting into Sport Integrity Australia’s national framework. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take o...

NSW bounce back underway, with people in the state qualifying for up to $450 in vouchers. Premier Dominic Perrottet’s department pushed to block crucial evidence from being heard in public in a corruption probe into predecessor Gladys Berejiklian. Eddie Obeid was back in his own bed last night despite being sentenced to five years’ jail. NSW government is reportedly consider poaching the Formula O...

A teen gangster and his innocent father are gunned down in a suburban street in broad daylight. Former Premier Mike Baird tells the ICAC Gladys Berijiklian should have confessed to her secret relationship with Daryl Maguire. Michael Slater has admitted himself into treatment after being charged with stalking or intimidating his former girlfriend. Former NRL star Sam Burgess has been cleared of all...