Raveen Hunjan is a journalist for ABC News in Sydney.
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| UpdatedA 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
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| UpdatedFor 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
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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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedAt 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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedHundreds 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
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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
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| UpdatedMichael 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
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| UpdatedIndependent 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
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| UpdatedAustralian 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
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| UpdatedSelf-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
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| UpdatedJournalist 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
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| UpdatedStudents 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
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| UpdatedBanning 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
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| UpdatedA 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
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| UpdatedThe 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
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| UpdatedFormer 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
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| UpdatedNew 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
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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
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| UpdatedA 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
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| UpdatedA 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
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| UpdatedMore 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
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| UpdatedThe 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