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Controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo is considering walking away from the operating theatre, convinced the NSW Medical Council’s decision to “slap” him with restrictions is a sign his enemies are “going in for the kill”. Emily Seebohm opens up about her eating disorder to encourage a positive change in her much-loved sport. Property ­experts say if you want to sell your home, now is the time to...

Residents living around Western Sydney’s incoming aerotropolis will have a direct line to voice their concerns with the government. Two of rugby league’s most powerful Indigenous leaders have joined the push to get Australians vaccinated against Covid. A proposal to allow hairdressers to reopen in certain parts of Sydney was rejected by cabinet amid concerns of political backlash if the move went...

George Burgess is alleged to have thrown a phone onto a road during a road-rage incident involving another man in Wollongong on Monday night. The state’s hospitals are crumbling under growing pressure from weeks of Covid outbreaks and rising cases that have led to hundreds of staffers forced into isolation In recent times of drought and flood, city slickers have dug deep to support their country c...

The state’s Year 9 students have ­recorded their worst performance for reading in NAPLAN examinations since the tests began. A mother of three children has become the youngest woman to die from Covid in NSW, with the deadly virus also leaving her husband fighting for life in hospital.  People of west and southwest Sydney aredriving the state’s increasing vaccination coverage but hotspot local gove...

NRL star Andrew Fifita woke from an induced coma and ­instantly his eyes began darting across the ICU ward of the Royal Brisbane Hospital.  NRLW star Millie Boyle says she was simply having a “kiss in the bathroom’’ with Canterbury’s Adam Elliott before they were kicked out of a restaurant by security.  It is unlikely all students will head back to the classroom this year, with the state’s top doc...

The Narrabri Gas Project has been delayed by an appeal despite a stark warning about a looming gas shortfall for NSW. The worsening Delta outbreak has led to NSW residents getting jabbed at one of fastest rates in the world. Golfing world left stunned by a Blue Mountains amateur. D-Day has finally arrived for NRL expansion. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription a...

HSC exams will be held outdoors under new proposals to get students safely back to school. The Wiggles will double in numbers and take the children’s act into the 21st century with diversity. A mini series starring Isla ­Fisher has been slammed for filming in the Inner West during lockdown. Canberra Raiders star Curtis Scott has turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and undergone psychiatric treatment to...

NSW plunged into its harshest ever Covid crackdown. The United Nations Security Council is prepared to recognise the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan. A meditation guru could apply to have alleged home invasion charges dealt with under the mental health act. John Coates has given his first interview since the Olympic flame was extinguished. For updates and breaking news througho...

The Star has turned around a Covid-induced $95 million loss in the past financial year to post a $57.9 million profit. Premier Gladys Berejiklian has told other states that they must learn to “live” with Covid cases that NSW has foisted upon them. Australia is scrambling to process visa applications for Afghan workers. It has now been 847 days since Souths last beat either of the top contenders fo...

Police say members of the notorious A-lamed-dine clan have been caught flouting public health orders in Covid hot spots,...despite some of their family and friends having already caught the virus Football NSW is offering up empty fields across Sydney for mass vaccination hubs... and reaching out to culturally ­diverse communities with multilingual messages to ease vaccine anxieties.    Acclaimed n...

US President choppered back to the White House to deliver a brief mid-afternoon address to explain that the total collapse of the Afghan government to the Taliban unfolded more quickly than anticipated. Health authorities have raised the white flag on identifying venues visited by Covid cases. The state’s Firearms Registry finally has a computer system that automatically red flags dangerous people...

More than 250 Army and Air force personnel to Kabul to join Coalition forces in Afghanistan. Premier Gladys Berejiklian has backed away from her commitment to loosen restrictions once NSW reaches 80 per cent double-vaccination coverage. Cronulla officials are concerned front-rower Andrew Fifita may become the second Sharks player lost from a serious throat injury this season. Clubs are worried abo...

Hundreds of Afghan workers who helped Australian troops will be evacuated from Kabul in a “last flight out of Saigon” moment for the nation, as the Taliban moves in on the capital. Australians are being put at risk by dodgy doctors amid revelations dozens of fakes, fraudsters and unregistered medics have been caught illegally treating patients.  Poland has come to Australia’s rescue with a million...

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has backflipped on her incremental lockdown approach, announcing on Saturday afternoon the entire state will live under strict stay-at-home restrictions. Rapid antigen testing able to detect Covid-19 in less than 15 minutes will be rolled out in an aged-care facility in a Western Sydney hotspot tomorrow in a bid to keep Sydney’s most vulnerable safe in the ­latest outbre...

People will need a permit to travel to regional NSW while travel to second properties will only be allowed by one person to undertake essential maintenance or tend to animals under a tightening of the public health orders.  Five minors allegedly ­laughed, smiled at a camera and taunted a 16-year-old boy while he pleaded for his life as Sydney’s street gang culture claimed another casualty. Tenants...

Australia’s national statisticians have been blasted for adopting “radical gender theory” by stating in new guidelines that a person’s biological sex can change over a lifetime. A Sydney businessman and convicted criminal ­believed to be Byron Bay’s ‘‘patient zero’’ could be slapped with more charges as  investigations continue into exactly when and where he travelled. The Australian Defence Force...

Top cop Mick Fuller has been drafted to stop the state’s Covid chaos amid revelations health orders are too weak to be enforced and the community is in open defiance. Byron Bay’s patient zero is a Sydney businessman with convictions for drugs, burglary and forgery, who immigration authorities once claimed had arrived in Australia on a false passport. Vicious barbs directed at Matt Lodge’s criminal...

A million dollars has been spent by the Berejiklian Government on “PR spin” and community consultation for a project that is yet to   receive the go ahead –  raising the walls of Warragamba Dam. Christmas lunch with “everyone around the table” is the Prime Minister’s target for NSW, but there is a widening divide between the two people at the helm of containing Sydney’s second Covid wave. The pand...

Court documents have revealed single mum Kayla Dawson allegedly lured a 16-year-old boy to her Doonside home where he was bashed to death by a group of kids as young as 13 over a pair of stolen AirPods. Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged Australians’ “pandemic frustrations” as the Moderna vaccine was approved for use in Australia. Australian farmers are willing to go to the United Nations...

The Brisbane Olympics may be a long way off but Aussie youngsters are brimming with confidence and enthusiasm for a golden future thanks to the nation’s spectacular success in Tokyo.  Twelve suburbs in Penrith have now been placed under the strictest lockdown conditions in Sydney, as thousands yesterday flocked to Homebush to get vaccinated. Haircuts are among the services that could return when v...

Social media and big tech companies will be required to protect online users from cyber bullies and “digital lynch mobs”… or face being named, shamed and fined under a proposed new list of demands. Australia will have a third vaccine option within weeks with the country’s drug regulator set to approve the Mod­erna jab within a fortnight. Strike Force Raptor once prided itself on being the achilles...

Vouchers would be offered to councils to give to ratepayers on the condition they meet set vaccination targets under a plan to boost jab rates among NSW residents. Sydney’s housing boom isn’t done yet and there are multiple city pockets where budding property investors can still cash in on rising prices – especially in the city’s west and coastal regions. A simple expansion of the existing screeni...

Against all the odds, the Australian team at the Tokyo Olympics is on the verge of eclipsing one of the country’s proudest sporting achievements. The head of the global Hillsong Church Brian Houston was on Thursday sensationally charged with allegedly concealing child sex offences committed by his father Frank Houston. The NSW government’s worst fears have been realised as Sydney recorded its dead...

NSW will receive a fresh injection of nearly 184,000 Pfizer jabs over the next two weeks in a bid to raise vaccination rates in Covid-stricken Sydney and surrounding regions. Essential workers have led the charge in NSW’s biggest battle yet, fighting on the front lines of the war against Covid-19, but they say it’s our turn now to take up arms. A forklift driver aged just 27 has become the state’s...

Transport Minister And­rew Constance has been forced to implement new signs reminding motorists of hidden mobile speed cameras. Hospitality giants are pushing for a vaccine passport-style reopening of ­venues for double-vaccinated patrons as soon as next month as the NSW government weighs jab incentives. Two dozen doctors are being audited for potentially breaching Medicare rules by incorrectly cl...