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How are primary producers battling the heat and what will it mean for consumers and their wallets?
Topics: agribusiness, sheep-production, dairy-production, vegetables, poultry-and-egg-production, fruits, rural, food-and-cooking, weather, australia, vic, nsw, qld, hay-2711, dubbo-2830, bordertown-5268, stanthorpe-4380, wamuran-4512, glass-house-mountains-4518
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| UpdatedThe greyhound racing industry in New South Wales will be made to pay for a tough new integrity commission, under a new plan to stamp out animal cruelty in the sport.
Topics: racing, gambling, animal-welfare, state-parliament, nsw
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| UpdatedMike Fitzpatrick reflects on the ups and downs of his 10-year reign as AFL chairman, including Essendon's doping saga, the AFL's expansion plans, gambling and the new women's league.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, vic, australia, nsw, sa, wa, tas, qld, nt
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| UpdatedA stoush about housing affordability erupts in Parliament after the Premier announces she has hired former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens to advise her Government on the issue.
Topics: state-parliament, housing, nsw
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| UpdatedMore than 60,000 mines have been abandoned across Australia and there is evidence that only a handful have ever been fully rehabilitated, according to a report, raising concerns about how the land will be managed as the mining boom ends.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, coal, muswellbrook-2333, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedProperty developer Ron Medich wanted to go "all the way" in regards to harming a former associate he is accused of murdering, a Sydney court hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThirteen young Sydneysiders facing issues including homelessness and substance abuse join Mission Australia's Sounds of the Street program to shake off their demons and record their own album titled Mess.
Topics: education, music, community-and-society, youth, mental-health, sydney-2000, nsw
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Cattle farmer and NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer Murray Coe lost his family home near Leadville while he was helping to save other properties.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, leadville-2844, nsw
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| UpdatedBushfires, floods and heatwaves are the new standard in Australia, leading climate scientists say, but they are growing fatigued explaining it to people who cannot accept it or have a vested interest that means they do not want to.
Topics: climate-change, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, weather, australia, nsw, wa, qld, tas
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The RSL's national leadership and its NSW branch are negotiating terms for the entire state council to stand down amid investigations over several alleged financial scandals.
Topics: veterans, charities-and-community-organisations, nsw
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| UpdatedA RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".
Topics: states-and-territories, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, jervis-bay-2540, nsw, bega-2550
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| UpdatedOne of Australia's most senior child protection bureaucrats expresses concern with the way governments monitor incidents of child abuse within religious institutions.
Topics: child-abuse, children, nsw
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| UpdatedCity councils will battle on with their fight against council amalgamations, while regional centres celebrate, after the NSW Government's announcement of a split policy on forced council mergers.
Topics: state-parliament, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedThe new Super Netball comp is a fresh start for the game in Australia, and for Paige Hadley, it offers a chance for redemption after a rough year.
Topics: netball, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government will push ahead with forced council amalgamations in the city, but will walk away from regional council mergers that are currently in court.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedMany residents forced to flee their homes because of a huge bushfire in central western New South Wales are yet to return, a local mayor says, while insurance assessors begin to count the cost of the blazes which have raged across the state.
Topics: fires, bushfire, nsw, dunedoo-2844
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Newcastle holds Melbourne Victory to a goalless draw to return to the A-League's top six.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, newcastle-2300, nsw, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedSuperstar mare Winx claims a 14th consecutive victory, winning the Apollo Stakes at Randwick ahead of Hartnell and Endless Drama.
Topics: horse-racing, sport, randwick-2031, nsw, australia
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As fires that engulfed thousands of hectares across NSW on the weekend die down, residents are returning to their communities to find nothing left.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, fires, dunedoo-2844, nsw
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| UpdatedThe former partner of rugby league star Semi Radradra tells a Sydney court he punched her in the face soon after she gave birth, and then confessed to their pastor.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sport, nrl, rugby-league, domestic-violence, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe death of a man during the Southern 80 waterskiing competition — the sixth fatal incident at the event since 1987 — sparks renewed concerns about the popular tourist attraction on the Victoria-New South Wales border.
Topics: water-skiing, death, community-and-society, sport, echuca-3564, moama-2731, vic, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedLin family killer Robert Xie, who murdered five members of his family, is given five life sentences without the possibility of parole, while his wife says he is innocent and a "scapegoat" for the crimes.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, family-and-children, courts-and-trials, epping-2121, sydney-2000, nsw
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Warren Jarvis from Cassilis, in central west New South Wales, lost his house and his stock when bushfires went through on Sunday.
Topics: bushfire, cassilis-2329, nsw
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| UpdatedMost of the small community of Uarbry has been wiped out by a bushfire burning near Dunedoo, residents say, with some of the destroyed homes belonging to volunteer firefighters who were out combating the blaze.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, crime, police, nsw, boggabri-2382, coffs-harbour-2450, dunedoo-2844, leadville-2844, south-kempsey-2440, mudgee-2850, dubbo-2830, beechwood-2446, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380, port-macquarie-2444
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There are more than 80 fires still burning around New South Wales, with at least 12 homes lost but no known fatalities.