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The “degrading and abusive’’ culture within Australia’s elite swimming program has been exposed by 14 years of research that has ­uncovered a pattern of cruel and ­ dysfunctional coaching practices. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has met US President Joe Biden for the first time, sitting down for a discussion on the sidelines of the ongoing G7 summit. With the Comanchero smashed by the AN0M breakth...

Household garbage bins are set to be overhauled as part of a $350 million State Government waste “revolution” designed to dramatically boost recycling rates and reduce landfill. Sydney homeowner hopefuls priced out of their desired neighbourhood can save hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, by buying just one suburb over. Award-winning American actor Neil Patrick Harris will lead the j...

Hockeyroo golden girl Anna Flanagan was at her lowest ebb and living in her car when police arrested her in the Sydney suburb of Northmead last September, charging the Olympian with high range prescribed concentration of alcohol and ­resisting arrest. Disgraced doctor Geoffrey Edelsten, who made a name for himself with his flashy lifestyle and string of young wives, has died aged 78 at his apartme...

Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith broke down in court  as he described how his SAS patrol came under heavy fire in an action that would eventually result in him receiving the Victoria Cross.  The sound of a single shot ­followed by a “bloodcurdling scream” startled a quiet street as a grandmother was gunned down at the front of her ­Newcastle home on Wednesday night.  Cameron Mu...

Tensions have erupted ­between Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello with the Nationals leader sending the Liberal front­bencher furious texts. Queensland still owes NSW around $40 million for putting up citizens in hotel quarantine, while another $10 million is owning between WA and the NT. After losing his dad to motor neurone disease as a teenager, former N...

Sydney’s top politicians and socialites drummed up a bill of almost $100,000 for a lavish soirée to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a Sydney gallery – weeks after thousands of Australians were left out of work following the ­removal of JobKeeper. Australian drug traffickers brazenly sent photographs to each other of multimillion-dollar drug hauls while unwittingly using a police Trojan horse co...

A sweeping phase out of plastic items will be ordered by the NSW government, sounding the death knell for not just “single-use” plastic items like bags and straws, but also the end of cotton buds. Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith has a “very high” enemy kill count,  but he is not a murderer or a war criminal. Annastacia Palaszczuk became the last eligible state and territory leader to re...

The parents of Australia’s most decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith say they are “very proud” of their son on the eve of his defamation trial Children on vegan diets are growing up shorter and with weaker bones than their omnivorous counterparts. Mystery surrounds the death of a former Northern Beaches man whose body was found in Thailand A new two-lane bridge across the Hawkesbury River and a byp...

When Stuart MacGill was allegedly kidnapped over a failed cocaine deal, the ex Test cricket star told police his captors took his mobile phone before forcing him into a car. Deputy Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon allegedly said “do you know who I am?” to ambulance and police officers trying to help him after he was found collapsed “behind the Big Merino”in Goulburn. A mother has shared the heartbre...

Past and present NRL stars, TV and radio personalities and sporting leaders farewelled Bob Fulton at a State Funeral in Sydney on Friday. Tens of thousands of aged-care residents across Australia are refusing to be vaccinated despite being at the highest risk of dying from Covid-19. White-collar workers are muscling in on blue-collar territory, buying top-of-the-line work utes to park in their hig...

A plot to import a record shipment of more than three tonnes of cocaine into Australia by sea has been smashed  A bikini model caught in a dogfight with her neighbours over her exotic pet collection in Sydney’s northwest has won a court battle One of the state’s most ­notorious murderers and suspected serial killers is trying to do a deal to get out of jail  The mothers of tomorrow’s rugby league...

The Kings Cross Hotel in Istanbul is where some of NSW’s most wanted men hang out Future mouse plagues could be prevented by cutting edge gene editing research America's top medic Dr Anthony Fauci was told as early as February 2020 that Covid-19 had “unusual features”  Matt Moylan has emerged as the favourite to partner Nicho Hynes in the halves for Cronulla.   See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

The half-day kidnapping of ­former Lone Wolf bikie Dillon Mancuso, ended with 11 men being arrested yesterday. Lawyers who pushed for the  state’s most notorious killers to have their life sentences overturned have been sent packing Up to 250 international students will return to NSW on chartered flights  The Cronulla Sharks have signed Melbourne Storm utility star Nicho Hynes on a three-year $1.8...

Queensland gifted huge Origin advantage by buying the right to host the opening match Christian Porter has dropped his defamation lawsuit against the ABC  Labor's powerful head office is attempting to avoid a potentially messy rank-and-file leadership ballot  Comeback forward Jack de Belin will make his NRL return on Thursday night against the Brisbane Broncos. See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

The sociologist paid almost $6.5 million to bring about cultural change in the Australian Defence Force is now cashing in on that work with a commercially published book on “blood lust” in the military, that draws on the taxpayer-funded research. NSW police are being forced to act as ambulance officers and transport patients to hospital in a growing trend aimed at plugging holes in the health syst...

New lessons will be rolled out in physical education classes to help students understand sexual consent and how to build respectful relationships. The first barrels of a mouse poison so potent it’s been banned for years  will arrive in NSW this week. No matter whether he wins or loses Big Brother, Brenton Balicki is forever haunted by the thought he failed as a big brother, after his youngest sist...

NRL star Michael Jennings is embroiled in a civil court case where his ex wife has accused him of repeatedly raping her during their relationship. NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has launched his defamation lawsuit against You­Tuber FriendlyJordies after a month-long legal stand-off. A new study has found more Australians would get the Covid-19 jab if it meant unrestricted travel and no quarantin...

Travellers returning to NSW from Victoria will have to comply with strict stay at home orders as the neighbouring state continues to battle a growing cluster of Covid-19 cases. On the day that Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith was originally alleged by Nine newspapers to have dragged an Afghan adolescent from a Toyota HiLux and killed him, the SAS veteran was actually in another part of A...

School kids at risk of bullying and self harm are now being red flagged by sophisticated artificial intelligence software which allows teachers to spy on what students are typing online. A leading Australian scientist has warned scientists performing dangerous experiments to make viruses more infectious and deadly need to be urgently regulated by an international framework, lest their work ­accide...

A person who lies to convince someone to have sex with them could be criminally liable under a major overhaul of consent laws in NSW. The devastating mice plague ravaging regional NSW  has left one family homeless after the creatures chewed through the wiring in their house, causing  a fire which burnt it to the ground. NSW employers are crying out for workers like nowhere else in the nation, with...

NSW Labor general secretary Bob Nanva has reportedly spoken with Jodi McKay in a bid to ­encourage the embattled leader to “consider her future”. A primary school student who brought a pocket knife to class last week has been suspended in the latest episode of knife-related incidents in the state’s public schools. Human rights boffins have resurrected a plan to force taxpayers to fund an advertisi...

Rugby league legend Bob Fulton is being remembered as a giant of the sport whose achievements may never be surpassed. The soil testing and remediation company being sued in the Spring Farm sinking homes class action has been accused of failing to clean up asbestos, oil drums and car wrecks at another major Sydney site. Jodi McKay’s leadership is under pressure after Labor’s crushing by-election lo...

After eight months of grieving, triple Olympian Lisa Curry has opened up publicly for the first time about losing her daughter Jaimi, revealing the pain of her death has left her so heartbroken and exhausted, “some days it’s just plain hard to get out of bed”. A man accused of kidnapping Stuart MacGill has claimed the cricket legend was to receive a benefit from a 2kg cocaine deal. Premier Gladys...

Fallen NRL star Jarryd Hayne is learning just how tough prison life is after he was refused access  to Foxtel. Its been revealed a woman had sought help from a doctor just days before she was found sitting in a bathroom next to her dead four-month-old son. Australia’s richest property developer has labelled companies who let their ­employees work from home “parasites”. And in sport, despite Jake F...

Members of the Australian Defence Force have been told to use the term partner ­instead of husband or wife and to ask colleagues “what is your pronoun”. They have managed to ­barely scrape through the pandemic lockdown but the state’s restaurateurs and farmers are now faced with a new threat to their livelihoods — lazy Aussies. A massive 35,000 per cent spike in wholesale power prices due to suppl...