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Philippa McDonald is a producer at Australian Story.
Girl, 5, dies from suspected methadone overdose
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Police are investigate the death of a young western Sydney girl from a suspected overdose of methadone — the substance used to treat heroin addicts.
Topics: crime, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, drug-offences, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, quakers-hill-2763
Remembering the Day of the Roses, 40 years since the Granville train disaster
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Survivors and descendants of victims of Australia's worst train disaster gather to commemorate the anniversary of the accident which killed 83 people.
Topics: community-and-society, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, granville-2142, nsw, sydney-2000
How Sydney will remember the Granville train tragedy
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Survivors, families of the dead and emergency workers are returning to the scene of Australia's worst train disaster, in which 83 people died.
Topics: community-and-society, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, granville-2142
NSW Government to apologise over Granville train disaster
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Almost 40 years after Australia's worst train disaster, the New South Wales Government says it will apologise to the "families left with unimaginable grief" as a result of the tragedy that left 83 people dead.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, granville-2142, sydney-2000
Woman who died after discharge properly treated: hospital
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Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred hospital says its staff did everything they could to help a woman who, after being discharged, was found inside one of the hospital's toilets and later died.
Topics: health, health-policy, doctors-and-medical-professionals, camperdown-2050, nsw
Granville train disaster victims speak out on eve of anniversary
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A woman who lost two daughters, her father and stepmother in the Granville train disaster almost 40 years ago makes an impassioned appeal for Australians to never forget the tragedy.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, rail-transport, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, granville-2142, sydney-2000
Friendship forged in Granville train disaster grows over 40 years
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A survivor of the 1977 Granville train disaster speaks of her bond with her rescuer, the man who she says "could feel my pulse when everything else was cold".
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, history, community-and-society, granville-2142, sydney-2000
Domestic violence reports prompt resignation of union official Jim Metcher
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State secretary of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union Jim Metcher resigns from the executive of Unions New South Wales after reports of domestic violence from 2007 surface.
Topics: unions, domestic-violence, nsw, sydney-2000
Fewer children dying, but 23 might have lived with vaccine
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The child death rates are steadily declining in New South Wales, mainly off the back of improved infant mortality figures, but a report shows that 23 may not have died if they had been vaccinated.
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, vaccines-and-immunity, death, children, health, nsw
Tributes flow for Kingswood Country star Ross Higgins
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Ross Higgins, the former star of Kingswood Country, who died aged 86, is remembered by his peers as a "vast talent".
Topics: actor, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, death, community-and-society, australia
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