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| UpdatedA severe thunderstorm warning is issued for Sydney and a large part of New South Wales, with the metropolitan area expected to be hit by 2-centimetre hailstones and damaging winds.
Topics: weather, storm-event, sydney-2000, penrith-2750, newcastle-2300, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedThe State Opposition accuses the Government of backtracking on a promise to provide light rail to Sydney Olympic Park in the first stage of construction, amid concerns it will eventually be dropped from the plan altogether.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, parramatta-2150, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA legal challenge by Uber that would have seen its drivers exempt from paying GST has failed after a Federal Court ruled they were a "taxi" service.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAlan Leishman has spent 30 years catching and recording birds in the Australian Botanic Garden, and has not only honed his talent for mimicking their chirps, but has witnessed the effects of climate change and industrial development.
Topics: animal-science, birds, environment, environmental-impact, lifestyle-and-leisure, people, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedNews organisation Yahoo7 is fined $300,000 after one of its journalists published a story that prejudiced a Melbourne murder trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, journalism, information-and-communication, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAustralian rock legends Midnight Oil have never felt "fresher, nastier, sweeter" as they announce their first world tour in two decades, with lead singer Peter Garrett declaring it feels incredible "walking back into the room".
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, bands-and-artists, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, sydney-2000
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Football journalist and draft expert Emma Quayle becomes the first female recruiter in the AFL after joining Greater Western Sydney.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, women, homebush-2140, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, vic, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralia's new Super Netball competition has not even started and already there are concerns it will be dominated by three new franchises backed by football clubs.
Topics: netball, sport, collingwood-3066, vic, adelaide-5000, sa, sydney-2000, nsw, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedEnergy drinks are linked to a higher risk of sudden cardiac death and increased blood pressure among young people who may be unaware they have a heart condition, a new study finds.
Topics: food-and-beverage, diseases-and-disorders, health, diet-and-nutrition, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedA "wickedly manipulative" serial paedophile priest is sentenced to stay behind bars until at least 2026 for the sexual abuse of boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst in central west NSW.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, sydney-2000, bathurst-2795
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Larry Buttrose was hired to write the story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian boy whose life journey inspired the Hollywood film Lion.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, books-literature, film-movies, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedClose to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedRicky Ciano, who survived an attempt on his life and subsequently relocated to Queensland, is found dead in a car in the NSW Central Tablelands, the ABC understands, with a friend saying he "ran out of places to hide".
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMeat and Livestock Australia enlists Dame Edna Everage to push its latest advertising campaign aimed at getting women to eat more beef.
Topics: rural, advertising-and-marketing, beef-cattle, kununurra-6743, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSuper Netball is a new product of a long-standing popular code about to join the growing landscape of women's sport.
Topics: netball, sport, sydney-2000, sippy-downs-4556, brisbane-4000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000
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An Uber driver is found guilty by a Sydney court of raping a female passenger, after picking her up at a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, sydney-2000, kings-cross-2011
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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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Last year children spent an average of 12 hours a week online, compared to 10.5 hours spent in front of the TV, according to a survey of Australian kids aged six to 13.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, internet-culture, computers-and-technology, internet-technology, television, social-media, children, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe RSPCA threatens to walk out of developing new poultry standards unless the phasing out of caged eggs is considered.
Topics: livestock-welfare, poultry-and-egg-production, animal-welfare, sydney-2000, bundaberg-4670, murray-bridge-5253, toowoomba-4350, wollongong-2500, moss-vale-2577, albury-2640, melbourne-3000
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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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When we remember the fall of Singapore we do it through the eyes of Australian troops, who suffered terribly as prisoners of war. But the local people of Singapore and Malaysia have their own stories. Ginny Costin, Aziz Bab and Eric Gan were children when Japanese forces invaded.
Topics: world-war-2, singapore, sydney-2000, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedGlam rock legends Guns N' Roses got off to a rough start at last night's MCG concert after the Melbourne crowd was greeted as "Sydney".
Topics: music, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, vic
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| UpdatedFirefighters rescue a cat and her five kittens from a fire in a unit at Kingswood, in Sydney's west.
Topics: human-interest, fires, animals, kingswood-2747, sydney-2000
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NSW Police conduct raids on properties in Sydney, February 14, 2017.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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An audit puts the spotlight on the Federal Government's $3.5 billion commitment to Sydney's WestConnex project, finding the money was handed over without following process.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, sydney-2000