Siobhan Fogarty is a television, radio and online journalist working in the ABC's Sydney newsroom. She previously reported from the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery for 2GB and worked as a producer for the Ten Network. In 2013, Siobhan won a Walkley Award for a television report about domestic violence in regional New South Wales. Siobhan studied journalism and graduated from Charles Sturt University. Follow Siobhan on Twitter: @Siobhan_Fogarty
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| UpdatedA police officer is injured and a man charged after clashes between police and protesters at an Invasion Day march through inner-city Sydney.
Topics: australia-day, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, hobart-7000, brisbane-4000, alice-springs-0870
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One of Sydney's best-known pubs, which has been around for more than a century, is forced to silence local artists performing live music in its courtyard due to a noise complaint from a neighbour.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, glebe-2037, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedA man dies after being swept off rocks with four other fishermen at Tathra on the far south coast of New South Wales.
Topics: accidents, tathra-2550
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| UpdatedOnly two months after shark nets were installed at Ballina, the Greens call for the NSW Government to phase out its entire Shark Meshing Program in response to new data.
Topics: shark, animal-attacks, state-parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull needs to do more to put an end to Japanese whaling by escalating talks with his counterpart Shinzo Abe, the Greens say.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, whaling, conservation, environment, greens, foreign-affairs, australia, japan
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| UpdatedA 40-year-old man arriving on a plane from London is arrested at the airport and charged over making threats online targeting Sydney's New Year's Eve festivities, after a tip-off from the public.
Topics: terrorism, defence-and-national-security, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-airport-2020, sydney-2000, mascot-2020, nsw
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| UpdatedA former NRL player and a Bondi businessman are linked to a drug ring after New South Wales Police record the biggest cocaine haul in Australia's history.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe mother of a missing 14-year-old boy collapses and weeps on the sand at Sydney's Maroubra Beach as the search for her son enters a second day.
Topics: missing-person, police, maroubra-2035, sydney-2000, nsw
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| Updated'Twas the night before Christmas, and Australians were preparing to stuff their stockings — and faces — with a $1.6 billion last-minute spending bonanza.
Topics: retail, community-and-society, australia
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A review conducted into the link between the pill and the risk of blood clots in women leads to new safety advice for medicines known as combined oral contraceptives.
Topics: health, womens-health, sexual-health, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedA power outage and a broken down train at Wynyard station stalled services, leaves hundreds of Sydney rail commuters stranded and facing long delays throughout Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning.
Topics: rail-transport, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA lucky little penguin is recovering at Taronga Zoo after an adventurous morning in which it was trapped in a stormwater drain in Sydney's inner west.
Topics: animal-welfare, human-interest, animals, haberfield-2045, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedCCTV footage shows a pair of arsonists narrowly escaping a fire they lit at a cafe in Sydney's east earlier this year, as police renew their appeal for information about the incident.
Topics: fires, emergency-incidents, arson, maroubra-2035
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If your mail has ever been taken it may have ended up in the hands of international crime syndicates who used the personal information to steal from you or set up fake bank loans in your name.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, fraud-and-corporate-crime, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedRefugee and criminal lawyer Deng Adut is a contender for 2017 Australian of the Year having just been named the New South Wales winner.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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A centre providing evidence-based information and support for drug and alcohol counsellors, cannabis users and the wider community will close its doors after losing Commonwealth funding.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-use, drug-education, sydney-2000
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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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A new study supports a Federal Government plan to start screening for cervical cancer from age 25, with earlier tests having little effect on the cancer rate.
Topics: cancer, cervical-and-vulval-cancers, womens-health, medical-research, australia
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Government is deploying 85 additional smart drum lines off beaches across the state in an effort to prevent shark attacks.
Topics: shark, animal-attacks, states-and-territories, state-parliament, ballina-2478, nsw
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| UpdatedIn Bedgerabong, a township isolated by flooding in the central west of New South Wales, residents are working together to help and support each other.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, floods, forbes-2871, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedFarmers in the NSW central west are expecting heavy losses, with many of their crops already completely submerged and flood waters expected to peak later today.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, weather, emergency-incidents, forbes-2871, condobolin-2877, nsw
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| UpdatedBrisbane Broncos centre James Roberts is found guilty of a contrary conduct charge at the NRL judiciary.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedBasic levels of weekly exercise could offset some of the harmful effects of drinking alcohol, a new report suggests.
Topics: health, mens-health, womens-health, lifestyle-and-leisure, diet-and-nutrition, adolescent-health, education, alcohol-education, alcohol, australia
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| UpdatedTwo 12-year-old boys are charged over the alleged assault and rape of a six-year-old girl in a toilet block at a primary school on Sydney's northern beaches.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, schools, primary-schools, chatswood-2067, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedSeveral Nationals MPs break ranks with the NSW Government to vote against controversial legislation to ban greyhound racing, but it passes Parliament regardless.
Topics: racing, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, sport, nsw