Raveen Hunjan

• Man treated after car crash charged with partner's stabbing murder

  By Giselle Wakatama and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted December 04, 2016 13:48:54 | Updated December 05, 2016 18:35:52

  A man found injured after a single-vehicle accident is charged with murder after allegedly giving information to paramedics that leads to the discovery of a woman's body.

  Topics: death, domestic-violence, accidents, murder-and-manslaughter, fassifern-2283, toronto-2283

• Students recreate Daraprim, drug that sells for thousands in US, for $20

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 30, 2016 19:02:00 | Updated November 30, 2016 19:22:01

  For just $US20, a group of Sydney high school students recreate the key ingredient used in the drug Daraprim, which retails in the tens of thousands in the United States.

  Topics: pharmaceuticals, health, science-and-technology, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• NSW commits $27m to help train refugee arrivals

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 23, 2016 19:21:29

  The New South Wales Government is offering free training programs to Iraqi and Syrian refugees resettled in the state, in an effort to help them join the workforce.

  Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, bankstown-2200, sydney-2000

• NSW reports 40pc jump in homicides linked to domestic violence

  By police reporter Jessica Kidd and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 22, 2016 12:17:32 | Updated November 22, 2016 17:04:28

  The number of domestic violence-related homicides in New South Wales has risen by almost half, prompting police to call on the community to report suspected cases of family abuse.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, domestic-violence, community-and-society, nsw, sydney-2000

• NSW Aboriginal trackers' contribution to law enforcement recognised

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 18, 2016 12:58:47 | Updated November 18, 2016 15:48:01

  The contribution of Aboriginal trackers to the history of law enforcement in New South Wales is recognised by the state's police at a commemorative display in Goulburn, south-west of Sydney.

  Topics: aboriginal, police, history, goulburn-2580, act

• Politicians face grilling from primary school students

  By Raveen Hunjan and Mazoe Ford

  Posted November 17, 2016 19:54:47 | Updated November 17, 2016 20:46:48

  At a time of heightened political debate in Australia and overseas, both sides of politics have taken some difficult questions from Year 5 and 6 students about what matters to them.

  Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, community-and-society, children, birchgrove-2041, sydney-2000

• Work to start on train line between Sydney CBD and Parramatta within five years

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 14, 2016 10:06:25 | Updated November 14, 2016 13:23:11

  The NSW Government announces the new Sydney Metro West rail link will be under construction in five years and operational in 10, but the opposition says the revelation is just a distraction from the Orange by-election result.

  Topics: rail-transport, political-parties, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parramatta-2150, sydney-2000

• Large crowds flock to Martin Place for Remembrance Day service

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 11, 2016 11:52:09 | Updated November 11, 2016 12:59:11

  Hundreds of people commemorate lives lost in armed conflict, and 98 years since the end of World War I, with a solemn memorial in central Sydney.

  Topics: world-war-1, defence-forces, unrest-conflict-and-war, history, sydney-2000

• Aboriginal council gives 'reluctant' support to new NSW crown land laws

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 10, 2016 17:54:54

  The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council gives conditional support to new laws that will change how crown land is managed, after the State Government promised the legislation would not erode Aboriginal land rights or Native Title interests.

  Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, nsw

• Atkins forced to address Leveson family during inquest

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 04, 2016 13:28:23 | Updated November 04, 2016 17:25:26

  Michael Atkins apologises to his missing partner's parents "for their loss" while answering questions during the inquest into Matthew Leveson's presumed death.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, cronulla-2230

• Under-reporting of violence at Star Casino brings lockout laws into question

  By Siobhan Fogarty, Alison Branley and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted November 01, 2016 18:32:15 | Updated November 01, 2016 19:31:14

  Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says the Star Casino should not be exempt from Sydney's lockout laws, after a leaked report suggests the venue has allegedly been under-reporting violent incidents.

  Topics: government-and-politics, lifestyle-and-leisure, alcohol, assault, gambling, kings-cross-2011, pyrmont-2009, sydney-2000

• Australian artist who works as cleaner wins $150k art prize

  By Natasha Robinson and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 26, 2016 12:11:17 | Updated October 26, 2016 17:51:33

  Australian artist Megan Seres's painting of her daughter Scarlett wins the richest portraiture prize in the world — The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

  Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, sydney-2000

• Self portraits from final hours included in Myuran Sukumaran exhibition

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 25, 2016 18:21:29 | Updated October 25, 2016 18:55:23

  Self-portraits painted in the final hours of the life of executed Bali Nine member Myuran Sukumaran will be included in the first exhibition of his work, curated by his close friend and mentor.

  Topics: contemporary-art, visual-art, drug-offences, death, sydney-2000

• Journalist hits out at police after being detained at WestConnex protest

  By Raveen Hunjan and Antoinette Lattouf

  Posted October 22, 2016 16:55:18 | Updated October 22, 2016 19:49:49

  Journalist and social activist Wendy Bacon, says the police gave her 'pretty rough treatment' when they arrested her and two other peaceful protesters at a WestConnex demonstration yesterday.

  Topics: road-transport, state-parliament, newtown-2042, sydney-2000

• Trinity Grammar School students raped other students, royal commission hears

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 20, 2016 14:38:48 | Updated October 20, 2016 22:34:44

  Students at a school in Sydney's inner-west raped and simulated rape with other students using a wooden implement more than 15 years ago, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hears.

  Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, schools, sydney-2000, townsville-4810, riverview-2066, summer-hill-2130, parramatta-2150

• Airbnb ban in NSW not the answer, report tabled to Government says

  By Nicole Chettle and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 19, 2016 20:50:33 | Updated October 19, 2016 21:03:35

  Banning short-term rentals is not the best way to address problems faced when renting out the family home to visitors, a report recently tabled to the New South Wales Government says.

  Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, bondi-2026, bondi-beach-2026, sydney-2000, nsw

• Mental health support launched for parents as HSC begins in NSW

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 13, 2016 00:35:50 | Updated October 13, 2016 01:12:15

  A youth mental organisation has launched online resources for parents whose children are completing the HSC, to help them cope with stress that accompanies the exams.

  Topics: education, secondary-schools, schools, secondary, stress, mental-health, mosman-2088, sydney-2000, nsw

• Salim Mehajer loses appeal against AVO involving personal trainer

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 12, 2016 15:08:08 | Updated October 12, 2016 15:37:33

  The former Auburn deputy mayor has an appeal against an Apprehended Violence Order rejected, with a judge finding he made a "rather poor attempt" to paint himself as a "choir boy" when giving his account of the events.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000

• No unsportsmanlike conduct involved in Phillip Hughes's death: Haddin

  By Kathleen Calderwood and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 10, 2016 09:59:45 | Updated October 10, 2016 17:04:20

  Former New South Wales cricket captain Brad Haddin tells an inquest into Phillip Hughes's death he did not instruct his team to bowl more short balls at the batsmen.

  Topics: sport, cricket, sydney-2000

• 'Stealing is stealing': Police crack down on shoplifting at self-service checkouts

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 06, 2016 14:05:43 | Updated October 06, 2016 16:56:38

  New South Wales Police crack down on supermarket security at self-service checkouts, saying plain-clothes officers will be watching customers.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sydney-2000, nsw

• Native animals to be killed 'without oversight', NSW Labor says

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 02, 2016 15:41:49

  Labor says provisions allowing the killing of native animals have been overlooked in NSW's controversial Biodiversity Conservation Bill.

  Topics: environment, government-and-politics, rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, nsw

• Woman found dead in Sydney unit murdered by partner, police allege

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted September 29, 2016 19:28:07 | Updated September 30, 2016 00:36:34

  A man is charged with the murder of his partner, an Iranian hairdresser whose body was found in a unit in Sydney's inner-city.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, potts-point-2011, nsw, australia

• Walking fly with forked penis accidentally discovered in NSW

  By Raveen Hunjan, staff

  Posted September 29, 2016 11:42:22 | Updated September 29, 2016 12:55:49

  A crane fly with a forked penis that seemingly evolved to walk rather than fly is accidentally discovered by a scientist in New South Wales while undertaking routine work in Kosciuszko National Park.

  Topics: animal-science, science-and-technology, jindabyne-2627, nsw, australia

• Australia leading world in hep C treatment

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted September 29, 2016 09:41:07 | Updated September 29, 2016 12:39:33

  More people are on track to be cured of hepatitis C in Australia this year than over the past two decades combined, indicating Australia is a world-leader in treatment for the virus, an expert says.

  Topics: health, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, sydney-2000, nsw

• Proposed NSW land-clearing laws dealt blow

  By Raveen Hunjan

  Posted September 21, 2016 11:49:09 | Updated September 21, 2016 13:37:55

  The New South Wales Government's draft changes to biodiversity and land-clearing legislation are proving unpopular, with a summary of public submissions showing widespread opposition.

  Topics: agribusiness, rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, nsw

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