Riley Stuart is a digital journalist working in the ABC’s Sydney newsroom. He is a regular contributor to Triple J and has previously served as The West Australian’s online sports editor and a reporter for afl.com.au. Riley graduated from University of Western Australia in 2009 with a dual major in Communications Studies and English. Follow Riley on Twitter: @rileystuart1
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| UpdatedFour homes are evacuated and a gaping sinkhole opens up near Malcolm Turnbull's home in the affluent Sydney suburb of Point Piper, with one resident describing the scene as "complete chaos".
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, police, emergency-incidents
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| UpdatedAn expert witness from the United States tells a royal commission hearing the Catholic Church and Pope were more concerned with covering up, rather than confronting, sexual abuse allegations.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedMore than 20 per cent of the members of some Catholic religious orders — including Marist Brothers and Christian Brothers — were allegedly involved in child sexual abuse, a royal commission hearing in Sydney is told.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSydneysiders swelter through another sizzling summer's day, with Parramatta and Penrith among the hot spots.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, bourke-2840, wilcannia-2836, penrith-2750, parramatta-2150, campbelltown-2560, moree-2400
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| UpdatedAs Danny Green and Anthony Mundine traded blows in the ring, the first punches in a legal fight over several free feeds of the bout were already being thrown.
Topics: piracy, law-crime-and-justice, broadcasting, television-broadcasting, information-and-communication, boxing, sport, australia
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| UpdatedPolice break down the door and storm a suspected drug lab in Sydney's west, as the fight against Australia's ice epidemic escalates, and cameras are there to capture it all for new a ABC documentary series — Ice Wars.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, police-sieges, police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAirbnb's popularity is exploding in Australia, and Sydney is its boomtown, but real estate agents say our love affair with the online homestay network is driving up rents.
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, housing-industry, housing, business-economics-and-finance, internet-technology, information-and-communication, sydney-2000, tamarama-2026, coogee-2034, bondi-2026, bondi-beach-2026
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| UpdatedFederal Minister Paul Fletcher says Sydneysiders aren't thinking about housing affordability as Labor steps up its attacks on negative gearing and the city's real estate discord.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedVeteran New South Wales Health Minister Jillian Skinner announces her retirement from politics amid speculation she was going to be dumped from the Government's frontbench.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, health-administration, health-policy, sydney-2000
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One of Sydney's favourite live music venues — The Sando in Newtown — claims the city's "regulatory climate" has made their business unsustainable.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, alcohol, government-and-politics, newtown-2042
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| UpdatedNew Premier Gladys Berejiklian is under fresh pressure on negative gearing in the wake of a global survey ranking Sydney second only to Hong Kong for unaffordable housing.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, parliament, state-parliament, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSydney's housing is rated less affordable than global metropolises New York and London in a report that paints a dire picture for the city's middle-income earners.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, government-and-politics, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, tweed-heads-2485, moss-vale-2577, mittagong-2575, bowral-2576
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| UpdatedNew South Wales' new premier supports same-sex marriage and helped initiate WestConnex and the light rail to Randwick, but what else does she stand for?
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, willoughby-2068
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| UpdatedGladys Berejiklian is NSW's premier-in-waiting as senior Government MPs rule out the idea of challenging her for the state's top job.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, local-government, community-and-society, manly-2095, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedFrom tweeting reality TV, the greyhound racing ban, lockout laws and everything in between, these are some of the things departing NSW Premier will be remembered for.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedScott Eastwood, the son of veteran actor Clint, irritates environmental authorities after posting a video of an illegal cliff jump on social media earlier this week.
Topics: national-parks, arts-and-entertainment, actor, sutherland-2232
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| UpdatedSydneysiders flock to beaches in the early hours of this morning, trying to escape the heat with temperatures reaching a scorching 31 degrees Celsius at 6:00am.
Topics: swimming, oceans-and-reefs, weather, surf-life-saving, bondi-beach-2026, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFederal Education Minister Simon Birmingham urges prospective university students to pick their courses carefully as new data reveals one in three will not have finished their bachelors degree in six years.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, federal---state-issues, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous leaders are criticising the NSW Multiculturalism Minister for describing January 26 as a wonderful day for all Australians and "not controversial".
Topics: national-days, australia-day, community-and-society, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedWelcome to Bourke, where 2,000 of Australia's toughest people battle melting roads and exploding thermometers under the scorching summer sun.
Topics: weather, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, bourke-2840
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| UpdatedA missing New Zealand father and his six-year-old daughter baffle police and evade a child-recovery operation with an incredible journey to Australia on a six-metre catamaran.
Topics: missing-person, family, family-and-children, family-law, ulladulla-2539
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government warns Sydney residents with respiratory conditions to take care as hot, still weather and pollution combine to create lung-damaging toxic gas.
Topics: air-pollution, pollution, environment, weather, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Baird Government's plan to speed up the development approval process in order to combat Sydney's housing affordability crisis is met with a warning that risky proposals could get rubber stamped.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, local-government, state-parliament, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWoollahra Council, in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, steps up its fight against forced amalgamations by lodging a High Court appeal.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, community-and-society, woollahra-2025
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| UpdatedNSW police charge a man over an alleged hit-and-run that left an elderly man dead in Sydney's south-west last week.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, condell-park-2200