Prestige car owners lose $600,000
Lucy Cormack 5:03 PM Dealer who sold prestige vehicles on consignment banned from trading.
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'Lives are being put at risk'
![Two 16-year-old girls and two other women in their teens were seriously injured in a car crash.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/j/0/8/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpf8ln.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Kate Aubusson 3:45 PM A health budget injection to recruit just 85 new paramedics is 'quite simply not enough', unions say.
The fashion brand that misled shoppers
![Many on-demand apps offer convenience, but convenience is a very old sales pitch.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/c/f/5/g/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpez61.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Esther Han 10:56 AM An upmarket label has been fined for telling customers the wrong thing.
How 'the mutilator' met his end
![William MacDonald in handcuffs at the Criminal Investigation Branch in 1963.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/h/0/s/i/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpfai0.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Kim Arlington 4:31 PM He was known as Australia's first serial killer. But one intended victim had a lucky escape.
'On track and on budget'
![The red rattler rolled over the Harbour Bridge on Wednesday to mark the 90th anniversary of Sydney's first electric trains.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/d/x/9/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpedzj.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Matt O'Sullivan It might be the geographical end of the massive north-west rail link but it marks just the start of the laying of 108km of railway steel.
Ghost students 'bamboozled' college teacher
![Unique International College chief executive Amarjit Singh, photo from Unique International College website ...](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/j/s/9/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpejsh.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.png)
Eryk Bagshaw 11:29 PM Penny Martin was assigned to teach 80 students, but she never heard from one of them, a court has heard.
Suburb where tradie requests are up 2400%
![Tools of the trade: be active in the community to help improve your branding.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/d/l/m/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpeiqg.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Lucy Cormack It's not just the northern beaches left with the big clean-up.
Why Opal train trips to the city can cost more
![Commuters travelling to stations in the central city such as Town Hall incur a 3.21 kilometre "CBD increment".](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/m/8/y/y/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcpze.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Matt O'Sullivan It's called the "CBD increment" - and you could be paying it.
'By far the biggest ever month'
![Wind energy had a record month in May.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/0/f/8/c/h/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpe6qh.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Peter Hannam A windy May across south-eastern Australia helped smash wind energy generation records.
Vast gaps in rail bridge safety system
![A rail bridge over Duck River at Granville, one of the bridges for which the state does not have a load rating.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/3/g/1/9/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpbvjg.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Jacob Saulwick 'Unless you know your asset you do not know your risk,' expert warns.
CSG wastewater tanks adrift in flood
![Bubbling up near CSG wells: AGL says it's carbon dioxide.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/d/i/e/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpd2mj.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.png)
Peter Hannam What's in those bubbles, anti-CSG activists want to know.
TAFE cuts carpentry, plumbing teachers
![FIRST USE AFR 29/08/05 - Generic photo of construction worker, hard hat, hammer, industrial relations, ...](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/r/4/c/d/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp9r0m.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw Core trades are out the door in TAFE's biggest campus, as a restructure pushes training towards the scandal-plagued private sector.
'I don't care what you do, just cover it up'
![Former Botany Council CFO Gary Goodman in March.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/c/s/t/u/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpdfay.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Lisa Visentin Former council CFO alleges he was given carte blanche to charge $700,000 to his boss's credit card.
A 'clear case of corporate greed'
![Children's toys, such as this, are just one consumer product governed by Australian standards, vital for ensuring their ...](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/d/c/5/8/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpd8ng.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Lucy Cormack A service freely available at libraries is soon to cost you at least $100.
Obeid: jury urged to keep an 'open mind'
![Eddie Obeid at the Darlinghust Supreme Court on Monday.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/c/b/s/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpd5k8.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn Barrister says it would be "stretching the evidence" to conclude the former NSW Labor minister engaged in criminal conduct.
'An accident waiting to happen'
![Premier Mike Baird at Collaroy Beach.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/k/u/z/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcjq6.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Melanie Kembrey and Ava Benny-Morrison "Collaroy Beach is the most at-risk part of the NSW coast. It has been at risk for more than a 100 years and essentially nothing has been done for those 100 years."
Climate change will bring worse storms
![Bondi Beach before the clean-up began.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/9/d/u/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcdom.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Peter Hannam Storms like the one of the past weekend may become fewer with climate change - but be more intense.
'I am not guilty': Eddie Obeid tells trial
![Eddie Obeid at the Darlinghust Supreme Court on Monday.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/c/b/o/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcdff.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn Eddie Obeid's wife Judith and two of the couple's five sons will be called to give evidence in his criminal trial over alleged business dealings at Circular Quay.
'It's a very nasty way to die'
![Dr Rose Cairns at the NSW Poisons Information Centre said patients can easily mistake their weekly methotrexate dose ...](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/k/j/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcaz3.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Kate Aubusson Accidental overdosing of a drug used to treat arthritis and other common conditions has been linked to multiple avoidable deaths.
State has a new sheriff in town
![New sheriff comes armed: NSW electoral commissioner John Schmidt.](/web/20160609091918im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/k/v/y/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcisa.11bc3y.png/1465456457889.jpg)
Sean Nicholls A man armed with anti-money laundering experience has emerged as the new electoral commissioner in NSW.