Major flooding events 'on the increase'
Peter Hannam 3:21 PM New research as Sydney braces for second east coast low in as many weeks.
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Mehajer's 'feature film' under scrutiny
![Behind the scenes at Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer's wedding.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/r/s/2/0/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gplt5v.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
James Robertson 5:20 PM It was his pre-wedding video that helped vault Salim Mehajer into public consciousness. But on Friday a sequel took centre stage.
Cost of major storm events before they happen
![Works at Collaroy beach earlier this month to shore up the collapsed foreshore after the recent east coast low.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/2/j/c/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gplh4j.11bc3y.png/1466220623839.jpg)
Peter Hannam 8:02 AM As coastal councils brace for another hammering of their beaches over the weekend, new research methods are emerging that could help local communities assess the threats from beach erosion.
Obeid did not reveal 'conflict of interest'
![Eddie Obeid arrives at Darlinghurst Supreme Court on Friday.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/l/9/4/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpl7ym.11bc3y.png/1466171915424.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn 6:52 PM A former top bureaucrat has told Eddie Obeid's criminal trial the then state Labor minister did not reveal his family had an interest in two Circular Quay cafes when lobbying him about the plight of harbourside tenants.
Curtis pleads for non-custodial sentence
![Oliver Curtis and wife Roxy Jacenko leave his sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court on Friday.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/l/v/z/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkk38.11bc3y.png/1466170945191.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn 5:42 PM The barrister acting for convicted insider trader Oliver Curtis has declared there "isn't a person in Sydney" who would want to live through what Curtis and his family have endured.
Let them out: calls to free women from prison
![Bianca was recently released from a NSW prison after serving 10 months inside.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/w/o/7/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpiy08.11bc3y.png/1466218465633.jpg)
Patrick Begley, Inga Ting 12:40 PM Bianca was 13 when she ran away from home, 14 when she met the drug dealer who would become her abusive husband, 16 when she tried ice and 28 when she first went to jail.
Killer's son to pay millions for clearing land
![Ian Turnbull escorted out King Street court.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/q/6/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkqvz.11bc3y.png/1466207283252.jpg)
Damien Murphy 9:48 AM The son of Ian Turnbull, the octogenarian farmer who gunned down a NSW environment officer, has been ordered to carry out repairs worth $4.5 million on illegally-cleared land.
Program that put more people in hospital
![Common law and legislation relating to futile care are "counter intuitive", says one of the co-authors.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/5/l/o/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpjcda.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Kate Aubusson It was supposed to keep people out of hospital. It didn't quite work out that way.
TAFE: enrolment system dumped
![TAFE enrolments have been in chaos during roll out of the LMBR system.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/q/r/9/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkhtv.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw The NSW government had dumped part of a $531 million enrolment system from the state's TAFE network after years of chaos.
'They're greedy. Serves them right'
![Former Auburn councillor Ronney Oueik arrives to testify at the inquiry initiated by the State Government.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/k/6/g/s/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkm8f.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
James Robertson A former mayor of Auburn council has denied he spoke against a planning proposal to reduce the height of a building because its owner, a local Lebanese group, supported his political rival.
$1 fee on all taxi and Uber trips: 'Nobody's talked about it'
![The ability to book an Uber in advance will make it even more of a threat to the taxi industry.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/5/3/d/q/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpl4ue.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Julie Power 12:15 AM Nearly 90 per cent of NSW residents don't know about the new $1 levy that will be added to all taxi and rideshare trips, no matter how short, following the expected passing of new legislation this week. Â
'Billions of tax dollars being squandered'
![Taxpayers spent $10,500 per graduate in TAFE courses in 2014.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/1/0/k/4/b/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpk7bf.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Kelsey Munro Private vocational courses cost taxpayers seven times as much as TAFE, new analysis finds.
'We don't know how we'll cope through winter'
![Nepean Hospital has been allocated $1 million in funding for planning in the next budget.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/g/t/p/g/e/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpk64b.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Kate Aubusson A Sydney hospital in 'crisis mode' will get just $1 million in next week's state budget.
'The hairiest question' to ask
![Warragamba dam, Sydney's main catchment, last spilled over in August 2015 - and may again next week.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/8/y/w/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkazp.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Peter Hannam Sydney's major dams may spill next week if a forecast storm brings even moderate rainfall to the area.
Medibank's secret changes to boost profits
![Medibank has been taken to the Federal Court by the ACCC.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/i/t/h/h/l/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpk555.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Esther Han Medibank has been accused of failing to disclose policy changes to members in a bid to boost profits ahead of its privatisation.
'Efficient policing' means jail spending
![Increased spending on NSW jails.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/l/j/w/3/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpkhd5.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Sean Nicholls Multibillion-dollar funding injection announced as NSW prison population surges.
What the jury didn't hear
![Roger Rogerson, left, and Glen McNamara during the trial.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/m/b/t/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpaeat.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Louise Hall and Emma Partridge The first trial of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara was aborted in July last year after McNamara's then barrister Charles Waterstreet made a reference to Rogerson "killing two or three people when he was in the police force".
Gao's family speaks after verdict
![Victim: Jamie Gao,](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/g/e/j/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpject.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Emma Partridge The family of murdered university student Jamie Gao have broken their silence for the first time after a jury found disgraced former detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara guilty of the 20-year-old's murder.
Story behind the story: Rogerson, McNamara
![Roger Rogerson, left, and Glen McNamara during the trial.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/m/b/t/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp86hx.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Emma Partridge Former detective Roger Rogerson once said the people he shot never ended up in hospital - they went straight to the morgue. But not this time.
Teacher withdrew $1.9m in cash, court told
![Amarjit Singh outside the NSW Law Courts in Sydney.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/f/5/o/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpjn16.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw Teacher was a relative of the college's owner and told the court she could not remember where the money came from.
More budget cuts to government agencies
!["The victims of our own success when it comes to the GST": Gladys Berejiklian.](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/g/5/e/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpjv3y.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Sean Nicholls Government agencies will be hit with a further $1.4 billion in cuts in next week's NSW budget as the "efficiency dividend" continues.
Glen Turner gunned down 'like a feral pig'
![Ian Turnbull is escorted out of court](/web/20160618044914im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/j/q/6/l/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpjtif.11bc3y.png/1466160417772.jpg)
Elderly farmer Ian Turnbull gunned down NSW environment officer Glen Turner "like a feral pig" in an act of revenge that has "broken" the dead man's family, his widow has told the NSW Supreme Court.