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| UpdatedGreens senator Rachel Siewert urges the UK Government to contribute to Australia's compensation scheme for child sex abuse victims if allegations of mistreatments at NSW institution are true.
Topics: child-abuse, community-and-society, nsw, united-kingdom, australia
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It is day one of Swans preseason training and AFL number 11 draft pick Oliver Florent is still coming to terms with his new life.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, vic
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In the business of bone donation, old hips are giving new life to people needing reconstructive surgery.
Topics: bones-and-muscles, health, medical-procedures, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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Two pygmy marmosets have been recovered after being taken from a wildlife park south of Sydney and two men charged, but a third monkey is still missing.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, animals, nsw
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A child abuse survivor says his biggest fear is that the momentum generated by the child abuse royal commission will dissipate, stopping any meaningful reform.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, catholic, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, wagga-wagga-2650, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedA stone war monument that crushed a three-year-old child to death fell while another child was climbing on it, police on NSW's mid-north coast say.
Topics: children, disasters-and-accidents, bowls-and-petanque, hallidays-point-2430, taree-2430, nsw
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| UpdatedThe gothic-looking gate has been untouched for decades and sticks out in an otherwise quiet country town.
Topics: sculpture, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, collector-2581, nsw, australia
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Australia's women's cricket team forces a dramatic ODI tie against South Africa, thanks to a last-ball run-out in Coffs Harbour.
Topics: cricket, sport, coffs-harbour-2450, nsw, australia, south-africa
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| UpdatedBowling coach David Saker says Australia may need to call on forgotten pacemen James Pattinson and Pat Cummins sooner rather than later.
Topics: sport, cricket, adelaide-5000, sa, melbourne-3000, vic, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, south-africa
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Sydney FC is still undefeated after eight A-League rounds but it has put in its poorest performance of the season in a goalless draw with Adelaide.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedMarco Rojas's second-half double sends Melbourne Victory to second on the A-League table, breaking the deadlock in a 2-0 win over Newcastle Jets.
Topics: sport, soccer, a-league, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw, newcastle-2300, australia
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A new agreement between the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the State Government aims to grow Indigenous business ownership, entrepreneurship and employment.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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The New South Wales prison back-log is costing the state more than $200,000 a day as prisons exceed full capacity, an Auditor-General's report finds.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, state-parliament, nsw
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| Updated"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling," said art historian Kenneth Clark. We visit the Art Gallery of NSW to see if that's true.
Topics: sculpture, painting, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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In another case of "close, but not close enough" for Western Sydney, the Wanderers are held to a 1-1 draw by the Brisbane Roar thanks to their own wastefulness and Michael Theo's safe hands.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, parramatta-2150, nsw, australia, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Bombers end speculation by taking Canadian-born defender Andrew McGrath with pick one of the 2016 AFL draft.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, melbourne-3000, vic, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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New South Wales Planning Minister Rob Stokes has broken ranks with his federal Liberal Party colleagues on the issue of negative gearing, arguing the rules should change to help ease Sydney's housing affordability crisis.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, tax, nsw, australia
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The New South Wales Government's proposed changes to its koala protection policy may put the vulnerable species closer to extinction, conservationists fear, but the Government says they are improving protections.
Topics: state-parliament, animal-welfare, animals, nsw
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| UpdatedThe artist Elizabeth Gould has not been entirely erased from history, but she has been reduced to an initial or replaced by the name of her husband.
Topics: books-literature, art-history, birds, animal-science, author, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government confirms the relocation of a chemical regulator from Canberra to Armidale, in the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's electorate, at a cost of $25.6 million.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, government-and-politics, federal-government, armidale-2350, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedHarry Ascroft and Roy O'Donovan both score in Central Coast's 2-0 home A-League win over Perth Glory.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, gosford-2250, nsw, australia, perth-6000
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| UpdatedWe asked Crowded House fans to share their memories of the band's historic farewell concert at the Sydney Opera House in 1996. Here are our favourite responses.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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A woman who fraudulently claimed more than $3 million in childcare benefits through her family day care centre is found guilty in the NSW District Court.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, corruption, child-care, albury-2640, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedSenior legal figures raise concerns about the independence of Australia's oldest corruption agency, following the resignation of its commissioner, Megan Latham.
Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, political-parties, government-and-politics, laws, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Anglican bishop of Newcastle, Greg Thompson, tells a royal commission a priest said in the 1970s he would "get ahead" in the church if he offered sexual favours.
Topics: royal-commissions, anglicans, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, wagga-wagga-2650, australia, nsw