Murray-Darling water and how it is shared is causing friction between farmers and the NSW Government.

Eastern suburbs residents have been warned testing rates are “nowhere near” what they should be in an outbreak, as other states start to place restrictions on travel.

Peter McKenna, a rising star of the NSW police force, has been injured in a violent confrontation in Dubbo.

Police Minister David Elliott said Arthur Moses was the ideal man because “he’s a Parra supporter, a westie, a Liberal and a Reservist”.

Rosie Spicer, aka the Ultra Nana, has overcome head injury from hitting a wombat and heavy smoking to enter gruelling Ultraman triathlons, training up to eight hours a day.

Previously, arrivals from the eastern state were only required to quarantine if they had been to one of the exposure sites visited by a known coronavirus case.

Police allege the man’s rhetoric online was escalating, that he was in possession of a large amount of extremist material, and that he possessed several improvised explosives recipes.

Four thousand homes remain without power in the storm-ravaged Dandenong Ranges as the state government offered small generators to affected homes and finally called in the army to help with the clean-up effort.

NSW recorded two locally acquired cases of coronavirus in the 24 hours up to 8pm last night, with the state’s health authority alerted of a third case reported after 8pm that will be included in Sunday’s numbers.

A review will be conducted by the State Dog Squad Capability Coordinator into the circumstances of the incident.

One of the state’s largest hospitals has cancelled non-urgent elective surgeries and will look to increase bed capacity and bring in additional staff to cope with “anticipated increased demand”.

Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said he was “optimistic” the state was on the right track for more easing of restrictions next week, but said health officials needed time to assess the effect of loosened restrictions.

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A loose grouping of media obsessed with alleged “wokeness”, veterans and social media trolls have piled on to Canberra-based sociologist Samantha Crompvoets.

Fears of a WA bikie war erupting were heightened on Thursday after a New Zealand gang trying to establish a chapter in Perth had their clubhouse firebombed.

There is blurry middle ground between herd immunity and when Australians might get back lost personal freedoms and privacy as government and police push the envelope on rolling emergency powers.

After Kamalle Dabboussy learnt his daughter had travelled to Syria with her Islamic State fighter husband, he was told to stay quiet. Now, after years of little action, he’s battling for her return.

If you wish to climb to the heights of polite society, there are some ideas you must accept without question, including Bruce Pascoe’s retelling of Aboriginal Australia.

Australians my age or older getting fat on housing profits are engaging in generational betrayal.

Chinese students are signing up to NSW’s top two universities in increasing numbers despite border closures, with Sydney University defying dire predictions by growing overseas enrolments.

The maligned stretch of road that cuts Sydney city and Circular Quay in two - and recently labelled an “eyesore” by NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet - will be opened up for foot traffic for a week-long party between December 31 and January 6.

Missing fraudster Melissa Caddick used former banned bankrupt accountant Cyril ‘John’ Pearson who was jailed for embezzling money from a superannuation fund as an adviser.

The NSW government will commit $196 million in next week’s state budget to develop a new school syllabus, and that will include money for an online system that will allow teachers - as well as parents and students - to find what they need in second...

Hotel floor CCTV has been crucial in investigating previous COVID-19 leakages, but footage relevant to the recent Delta variant outbreak was deleted.

Concern about a rising number of non-fatal instances of a rare clotting disorder in Australians in their 50s led to the “difficult” decision to limit the AstraZeneca vaccine to those over 60.

Ben Roberts-Smith had a challenging day in the witness box on Friday, on day 10 of the 10-week trial.

Mark Adamik lost his tourism sales job last year during the pandemic. This forced him to rethink his life, and he is retraining to be a carpenter because the building industry is “future proof”.

Enthusiasm is lovely and I have nothing against frocks, or even wallpaper, but really? What are they on?

Australia’s richest schools have hundreds of millions invested in the sharemarket, reaping big financial returns while also receiving more than $600 million a year in government funding.

Heaven forbid we consider overhauling the school day to improve educational outcomes.

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Critics are asking the government to explain why it has dropped key elements of planned reforms in a long-awaited bill introduced to Parliament this week.

There was one new case in NSW on Friday, a man who attended Bondi Junction Myer at the same time as a man who tested positive earlier this week.

A former spy has been handed a three-month suspended sentence for conspiring to reveal classified information about an alleged Australian operation to bug East Timor’s cabinet rooms.

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Labor stalwart Mike Kaiser has parlayed his three-month role as director-general of the Queensland Resources Department into a permanent posting.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is dating the lawyer who represented her at a corruption hearing into her former boyfriend Daryl Maguire.

Community gardeners at the Collingwood Children’s Farm are still yet to have access to their plots, with plans for a third-party facilitator to pave the way forward.

Teresa Bradford, who was murdered by her husband in 2017, was given insufficient support to protect her, Deputy State Coroner Jane Bentley has found.

The fresh inquiry heard on Friday that detectives, federal police, and the then-police minister were all tipped off about the 1973 Brisbane arson attack.

The Consulate says the man and his wife have both been vaccinated, tested negative to COVID-19 three times, and chartered a private flight to reduce any risk of transmission.

A decision on mining magnate Clive Palmer’s bid to have WA’s ‘anti-Palmer’ legislation thrown out — opening the door for the state government to be liable for $28 billion in damages — will be revealed on Tuesday. 

For those in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges, it felt as if the whole mountain was shaking. In Gippsland, it was worse than a cyclone.

Police are preparing to suppress any violent tit-for-tat reprisals that might stem from the brazen CBD shooting of gangland “mover and shaker” Bilal Hamze.

The Water Minister’s office has intervened in a stink over a plan to put an odour control unit in the middle of a much-loved Sydney bushwalking track.

The Sydney Eastern City Planning Panel on Friday unanimously decided that a planning proposal from Meriton lacked merit and had “unmitigated significant impacts on transport and amenity”.

Mandatory COVID tests may be putting skiers off, some operators fear, as the Victorian season opens after a quiet Queens Birthday weekend.

Ju Zhang, also known as Kelly, was last seen at her home in Epping on the evening of February 1. 

Parts of the destroyed electricity network will be rebuilt underground in the Dandenongs.

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