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[Link] How drug smugglers are trying to outsmart border officials at Australian ports
Read: 10/5/2022 www.abc.net.au
International crime syndicates are attempting to smuggle drugs into the country strapped to the hulls of cargo ships to evade detection, police say. Once the ship arrives at the port, scuba divers are standing by to collect the contraband.
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[Link] Fireproof Australia: who are the radical Extinction Rebellion splinter group?
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
It was the re-election of a Coalition government in May 2019 that altered the trajectory of Sam Noonan’s life and politics.
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[Link] High-profile Liberal woman quits party to run as independent after alleging ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A high-profile NSW Liberal woman is quitting to run as an independent at the next federal election, partly to protest the handling of an internal complaint in which she alleged “inappropriate” behaviour by some senior men within the party and government.
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[Link] Man charged over string of historical sexual assaults in inner-west Sydney
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 15 years after “the inner-west rapist” terrified Sydney, attacking women in their own homes, a DNA breakthrough has led to a man being charged. NSW police arrested a 51-year-old man at dawn in Panania, in Sydney’s south on Monday and charged him with four historical sexual assaults.
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[Link] NSW public school teachers to strike for first time in a decade as sector faces ‘perfect storm’
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales public teachers will strike for the first time in more than a decade in response to a “statewide staffing crisis” caused by stagnating wages and an escalating workload.
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[Link] Police officer who reported off-duty colleague for taking a gun to a school guilty of public mischief
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Sydney highway patrol officer has been found guilty of public mischief after anonymously reporting an off-duty colleague was at a primary school with a gun.
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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] Court blocks bid to release secret Ben Roberts-Smith report
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing The Age, Federal Capital Press and Fairfax Media, which reported serious allegations against him, including multiple unlawful killings in Afghanistan, which he denies.
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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
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[Link] NSW premier orders grants review as it’s revealed $20m school solar program went mostly to Coalition seats
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales premier Dominic Perrottet ordered a review of grants funding in the state at the same time it was revealed more than 90% of schools selected as part of a $20m pilot to fund solar power systems were in Coalition-held seats.
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[Link] Father and Son Gunned Down in Broad Daylight in ‘Gangland’ Shooting
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Eighteen-year-old Salim Hamze was already dead by the time authorities arrived at the scene on Thursday morning, following multiple reports of what sounded like gunshots in an otherwise quiet western Sydney street. His father, Toufik, was slumped over in the utility truck beside him.
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[Link] Icac documents: Mike Baird staffer questioned why Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.5m in ‘safe seat’ of Wagga Wagga
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
One of former New South Wales premier Mike Baird’s top staff members questioned why then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.
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[Link] Community groups in some states rehoming more greyhounds than industry programs, report suggests
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Industry-led programs to rehome retired greyhounds helped just 2,000 dogs across Australia last year and were outperformed in the two biggest racing states by community-run services operating on threadbare resources, a new report claims.
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[Link] ‘Cult’ Leader’s Widow Accused of Grooming Girls for Him to Abuse
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The leader of what police have described as a “cult” has been accused of grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her husband. Jan Hamilton and her late husband Ken Dyers co-founded Australian personal development group Kenja Communications in 1982.
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[Link] Incredible find on 173km/hr P-plater’s phone
Read: 9/10/2021 www.news.com.au
The young tradie was spotted speeding in a white Toyota HiLux on the M1 Motorway near Berowra in northern Sydney at 5.40pm on Monday. The 19-year-old P-plater driver was travelling 173km/hr in a 110km/hr zone.
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[Link] NSW business slams Australia Post’s parcel pause after $60k spend on express fees
Read: 6/9/2021 www.news.com.au
A NSW business has slammed Australia Post over a sudden announcement to pause their parcel post collection service after shelling out nearly $60,000 for express post and claiming some parcels took up to 13 days to arrive.
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[Link] Scott Morrison granted Covid lockdown exemption to visit Sydney for Father’s Day weekend
Read: 6/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scott Morrison travelled to Sydney over the Father’s Day weekend and returned to Canberra on Monday after receiving an exemption from ACT Health.
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[Link] Costco 'caught out' by COVID, regrets decision to open new store
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Boolaroo warehouse at Lake Macquarie was set to open tomorrow after eight months of preparation, but is now at the centre of a COVID cluster.
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[Link] NSW man who escaped SA hotel quarantine to go to pub sentenced to 14 days in prison
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Paul McElhinney, 33, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to failing to comply with a COVID-19 direction. McElhinney, who lives in Sydney, was quarantining at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Adelaide's CBD after returning from his father's funeral in Scotland.
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[Link] Labor demands Uber shape up or shut down
Read: 22/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
Labor has questioned whether transport giant Uber should be allowed to keep operating in NSW after the industry regulator revealed a systematic failure by the company to report safety problems, check drivers were doing mandatory training and stop them clocking up to 17-hour stints on the road.
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[Link] Man who allegedly escaped hotel quarantine and went to SA pub arrested
Read: 18/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
An investigation has found flaws in South Australia's medi-hotel security protocols, which allowed an international arrival to leave hotel quarantine for eight hours and attend a nearby pub and fast food outlet last week.
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[Link] NSW police fine 600 people on first day of Covid crackdown blitz
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales police issued nearly 600 infringement notices to people flouting tough new health orders on the first day of a three-week crackdown designed to get the state’s escalating Covid crisis under control.
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[Link] Live: Virus has breached St George hospital cancer ward, NSW Health confirms
Read: 17/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
NSW Health authorities have confirmed that several patients and staff members from St George Hospital's oncology ward have tested positive to coronavirus.
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[Link] Sydney assault: five teenagers charged with murder after boy, 16, dies in hospital
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five teenagers, including two as young as 13, have been charged with murder after the death of a 16-year-old boy found with severe injuries in Sydney. The boy was found unresponsive with head and chest injuries in a home in Doonside on Wednesday afternoon.
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[Link] Victorian couple desperate to return from NSW hear nothing a week after applying for Covid travel pass
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Victorians Carla Styles and Stuart Annand were just past the Queensland border, near Goondiwindi, when their mad scramble home began to unravel.
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[Link] Businessman made the 'most stupid decision of his life' when he tried to import nearly 300kg of cocaine in excavator
Read: 9/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Adam Hunter, 35, pleaded guilty to the crime in the NSW District Court, after police pounced on him and his business partner as they cut open the machine with an angle grinder and began removing packages.
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[Link] Grieving family of man who died after getting COVID at Liverpool Hospital want more transparency
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The grieving family of an 80-year-old man who is among five deaths linked to a COVID-19 cluster at a hospital in south-west Sydney, say they have a right to know what's going on at the facility.
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[Link] Near-miss was Delta strain, as Tasmanian COVID closures continue
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deputy Director of Public Health, Julie Graham, said it did not take very long to identify everyone that came into contact with the man, who did not have a valid G2G (Good-to-Go) pass.
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[Link] Unique potatoes, dedicated farmers behind one of Australia's longest running chip snacks
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
It takes 120 days from planting to harvesting to create a product that can be consumed within minutes, but the journey of these spuds stretches back even further.
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[Link] Centrelink pauses welfare and childcare debt repayments during lockdowns
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Centrelink will no longer issue or recover welfare and childcare debts during lockdowns, including in parts of New South Wales and Queensland currently under stay-at-home orders.
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[Link] How was Tasmania's new COVID case allowed into the state?
Read: 7/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Tasmania has recorded its first COVID case in hotel quarantine in 238 days. It means potentially dozens of northern Tasmanians have been forced into self-isolation and questions are being asked about how he came to be in Tasmania in the first place.
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[Link] As paramedics in south-west Sydney we are pushed beyond exhaustion – and into a dystopian world
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
It’s been nearly 18 months since I wrote about Covid-19 first hitting our shores and spreading to our suburbs. The transmissibility and virulence of the Delta strain has pushed the ambulance service beyond the brink of exhaustion.
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[Link] Advocates say NSW anti-discrimination laws are failing vulnerable
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales’ “terrible” anti-discrimination laws are worse than second-rate and are failing the state’s most vulnerable, a coalition of community and rights groups say.
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[Link] TikToker Leaking NSW’s COVID Cases Isn’t Using That Government App
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
In the midst of Sydney’s most recent COVID lockdown, Australians have managed to find some comedic relief in the form of TikTok guy Jon-Bernard Kairouz’ daily case predictions, which have proven correct five days in a row now.
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