Brooke Boney is a reporter with ABC News based in Sydney, NSW.
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| UpdatedA huge sandstone rock weighing as much as a humpback whale is being moved from the Giles Baths at Coogee in a week-long operation in order to reopen the area after it shifted in wild weather earlier this year.
Topics: weather, surfing, surf-life-saving, coogee-2034
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| UpdatedThink back 50 years in Australia's history — a man who started his life in a mud hut on the outskirts of Alice Springs was just about to graduate from university as the first Aboriginal person to ever do so.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, education, indigenous-policy, australia
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While the gender pay gap is not changing, the reasons for the inequality are, according to a new report, which says most discrimination is systemic and "much more sinister".
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| UpdatedMore than half of Australian women feel unsafe walking alone at night, according to a new report that also found Australia performing poorly in terms of income equality, incarceration rates and other key social issues.
Topics: women, womens-health, safety, community-organisations, prisons-and-punishment, suicide, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, work, volunteers, australia
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| UpdatedA Sydney man whose mullet became a social media sensation suffers a setback in his defamation case, with the judge finding some of the reactions to the story to be "clever observations" and mostly humorous.
Topics: courts-and-trials, hair, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA trusted dance teacher and co-owner of RG Dance Studio in Sydney, Grant Davies was convicted of dozens of heinous crimes against children as young as 10 years old. Why did he do it?
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, chiswick-2046, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedVincent Stanford, the man sentenced to life in jail for the murder of Leeton schoolteacher Stephanie Scott, had a history of violent and murderous thoughts towards everyone around him.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, leeton-2705
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| UpdatedA woman is in a critical condition in hospital after falling 100 metres onto rocks at Abercrombie, south of Bathurst in the central west of New South Wales.
Topics: emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, bathurst-2795, nsw
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Australia's Rio Paralympians are welcomed home in a celebration at Martin Place in the heart of Sydney's CBD.
Topics: paralympics, olympics-summer, sport, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Redfern All Blacks take out the New South Wales Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout for the second year in a row in a celebration described by federal MP Linda Burney as a modern-day corroboree.
Topics: rugby-league, sport, leichhardt-2040, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA new research program aims to tackle some of the worst outcomes in the world for ear health, amongst remote Indigenous communities.
Topics: health, indigenous-policy, bourke-2840, brewarrina-2839, nsw
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| UpdatedThe smartphone app replaces a traditional ECG machine to detect atrial fibrillation, which is responsible for one third of all strokes in Australia.
Topics: regional, health, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, brewarrina-2839
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| UpdatedA man who punched and robbed an 86-year-old man in a Sydney car park is sentenced to seven years' jail, with a non-parole period of four-and-a-half years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, crime, chester-hill-2162, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAn inquest hears more could have been done to prevent the fatal drug overdose of a 15-year-old girl in state care in Sydney, as her father calls for justice and her brothers reveal the teenager was "like a mum to us".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, carers, family-and-children, sexual-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedAn Indigenous inmate at Sydney's Long Bay prison died after being restrained by riot officers and tranquilised, despite him saying he could not breathe, according to documents obtained by the ABC.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, matraville-2036, kempsey-2440, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralian author and social commentator Richard Neville, who made a splash in Australia and the UK with the counterculture magazine Oz, dies at the age of 74.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, 20th-century, information-and-communication, australia, england
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| UpdatedThe streets of Cabramatta in Sydney's west are transformed as thousands visit the suburb for the annual moon festival.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, multiculturalism, cabramatta-2166, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA couple who established a makeshift animal sanctuary for injured and abandoned animals in far west New South Wales are forced to go to mediation to avoid being evicted.
Topics: animals, law-crime-and-justice, welfare, menindee-2879
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| UpdatedThe bodies of two babies are mixed-up in a Sydney hospital, resulting in one of them being accidentally cremated, New South Wales health authorities say.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, babies---newborns, st-leonards-2065, sydney-2000, nsw
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Students and supporters of the arts shut down Sydney's Oxford Street to protest the merger of the nation's oldest art school with the University of New South Wales, a move students fear could mean the end of the "national treasure".
Topics: university-and-further-education, arts-and-entertainment, darlinghurst-2010, sydney-2000
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It's true. If Dylan Voller hadn't committed those crimes he would not have been in that chair. That's why justice reinvestment programs are so important.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-policy, crime-prevention