Latest rat run turns 8km trip into 300m journey

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'Unnecessary anxiety amongst veterans'

Labor MP Hugh McDermott has been challenged to table his military service record.

Sean Nicholls 7:30 PM   The Veterans Affairs Minister has called on MP Hugh McDermott to table his military service record.

'Do not murder our children with this plan'

The proposed development of the Manly Vale school.

Eryk Bagshaw 8:05 PM   Parents and residents are furious with government plans to redevelop a school in a high fire danger zone.

Sydney Water's new fees

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Esther Han 12:21 PM   Your water bill is set to become a lot cheaper. But there's a sting in the tail.

New taxes for foreign property buyers

NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian says a stamp duty and land tax surcharge for foreign property investors will not hurt ...

Sean Nicholls 4:42 PM   Foreign buyers of property in NSW will be slugged with a 4 per cent stamp duty surcharge and pay an extra 0.4 per cent land tax.

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'All we have is glossy documents'

Metro

Matt O'Sullivan   The state government refuses to release detailed business cases for Australia's largest public transport projects.

MP refuses to release military service record

Labor MP Hugh McDermott is refusing to allow defence to publicly release his service details

Sean Nicholls   A NSW MP has blamed Operation Desert Storm for the Army's poor keeping of his service record.

'The mergers are done and this is a stunt'

NSW Premier Mike Baird and Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian announced that three state taxes will be abolished from July 1 ...

Melanie Kembrey   Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's idea of a plebiscite on council mergers has hit a snag in the form of the NSW Premier.

Orlando victims honoured at Sydney vigil

Members of the community hold a vigil in Taylor Square to pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando massacre.

Georgina Mitchell   Hundreds have gathered with candles and rainbow flags in Sydney's Taylor Square for a vigil to remember victims of the Florida gay nightclub massacre.

Melanie's $231,000 tip-off

Melanie Rumball and Tequila

Lucy Cormack   One tip-off to a consumer group about insurance netted 740 people compensation.

Rave organisers' 'disregard' for safety 

A 25-year-old man has died at a rave after a suspected drug overdose in NSW North Coast.

Ava Benny-Morrison   A festivalgoer lay dead in a car from a suspected drug overdose as others partied on around him.

Clouds over hospital childcare centres

Generic childcare, toddler, preschool, kids, children, play. Thursday 1st September 2011 AFR photo Louie Douvis

Matt O'Sullivan   Child care centres at four hospitals in Sydney are set to be closed or privatised.

Identifying a leaf became a murder mystery

Barbara Briggs aged 89 who is an amazing woman who has worked for the Royal Botanic Gardens for 57 years.
30th June ...

Lucy Cormack   Life as a botanist has taken Dr Barbara Briggs from the Royal Botanic Garden to assisting with a murder mystery.

'The tip of the iceberg'

Farmers have been cutting down paddock trees at an increasing rate.

Peter Hannam   The state's farmers have lopped paddock trees at an accelerating rate in the past 18 months even before a new land-clearing law eases controls further, government figures obtained by the Greens show.

Co-ops the solution to sharing economy trap

US lawyer Janelle Orsi who says worker co-operatives are the solution in the sharing economy world.

Anna Patty   Workers are being urged to form co-operatives they collectively own to protect their entitlements and to out-do Uber and Airtasker at their own game.

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It costs $4.20 a week to power Pia's car

Pia Peterson.

Lucy Cormack   And she's not the only one reaping the benefits of new technology.

Students are turning away from languages

In decline: foreign language enrolments.

Kelsey Munro   Foreign language learning in Australia is in serious decline in the second decade of the so-called Asian Century. 

'There's only one plan'

Scholarship recipient Braeden Rodricks at Patrician Brothers Blacktown, where he is a house captain.

Kirsty Needham   The government calls it a ''hand up''. For Braeden, it's a golden opportunity to fulfill his dreams.

'It's unacceptable and unfair'

The wait for cataract removal in NSW public hospitals is three times longer than the median Australian wait.

Kirsty Needham   A record number of patients - 74,351 - are waiting for elective surgical procedures.

The key to whether babies are immunised

A mother's objection to vaccination is the single biggest reason three per cent of Australian infants aren't immunised, ...

Cosima Marriner   New research has pinpointed the single biggest reason why 3 per cent of Australian babies still aren't being immunised.

'Accident waiting to happen'

Trams

Matt O'Sullivan   Sydney light rail workers to strike over changes to shifts, safety concerns.

Rugby 'too dangerous' for my son: ex-Tah

Angus Talbot (left) and Luke Harrison are both 14 and both play for the Lindfield Junior Rugby Club. Luke has just been ...

Eamonn Duff   An ex-Waratah star has banned his teenage son from the sport he loves.

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Highlights

RBA won't generate another economic boom

Households needed a bit more help, and they got it. But the RBA is waiting to see if more is needed.

Boost for solar farms 

The NSW government's electricity supplier has been asked to buy a substantial amount of energy from the state's solar farms – enough to power about 700 schools.

Antidepressant warning for children, teens

Study findings have "disturbing implications" for treating depression in young people, psychiatrist warns.

The job with a 141 per cent gender pay gap

Sexism is alive and well in our most respected and trusted professions, a new analysis reveals.

Chief scientist attacks uni entry standards

Chief scientist lashes out at universities accepting students without two-unit maths as one Sydney university becomes the first to publish full ATAR data.

People can't stop laughing at anti-plain packaging ad

''That accent is about as authentic and credible as the facts alleged.''

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Rogerson, McNamara trial: What happened in Unit 803?

The trial of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara over the murder of Jamie Gao heard three stories of how the university student died in a Sydney storage unit.

Rozelle fire: 'He thinks we're all stupid'

Liz Noble says her son's murderer Adeel Khan 'has no conscience', after he is found guilty of the manslaughter of Bianka O'Brien and her baby son Jude.

Second east coast low looms

NSW set receive a second bout of severe weather this weekend, two weeks after Sydney's coastal suburbs were left damaged by storms.