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| UpdatedThe Brisbane Lions make it three from three with a win over Collingwood while GWS and Fremantle play out the first ever AFL Women's draw.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, blacktown-2148, nsw, qld, collingwood-3066, vic, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, australia
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| UpdatedIn just a few days, several hundred women will jump from amateur status to semi-professional with great expectations ahead of the inaugural AFL women's season.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedTwo adults are being treated for nectrotising fasciitis — a rare and painful flesh-eating infection that can be life threatening.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, diseases-and-disorders, infectious-diseases-other, blacktown-2148
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GWS recruit Amanda Farrugia hopes to become a role model for young Australians when the first season of the AFL Women's league kicks off in 2017.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, blacktown-2148, parramatta-2150, nsw, australia
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The Brisbane Lions say they knew nothing of Craig Lambert's issues related to the Lachie Whitfield saga before recruiting him, but the AFL did.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, brisbane-4000, qld, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedRichmond star Brett Deledio has told the Tigers he wants to be traded to Greater Western Sydney with just one day left in the AFL trade period.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, blacktown-2148, sydney-2000, nsw, melbourne-3000, richmond-3121, vic, australia
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| UpdatedBuilt for workers and once condemned as dark and dingy slums, Sydney's humble terraces may soon be back in fashion.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, parliament, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, glebe-2037, blacktown-2148, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe AFL will look for a midweek sell-out of the Greater Western Sydney versus Western Bulldogs preliminary final after disappointing sales to Giants members were balanced by a strong pick-up from the Melbourne club's supporters.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, footscray-3011, blacktown-2148, homebush-2140
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| UpdatedA powerful video denouncing domestic violence will be aired in venues including sports and RSL clubs across New South Wales, in a bid to urge victims to come forward.
Topics: domestic-violence, clubs, clubs-and-associations, police, nsw, bankstown-2200, blacktown-2148, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA lead campaigner against the airport at Badgerys Creek says the Blue Mountains are still under threat despite environmental concessions, labelling the final Environmental Impact Statement a "con job".
Topics: air-pollution, pollution, environment, federal-parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, badgerys-creek-2171, katoomba-2780, blaxland-2774, blacktown-2148, nsw
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| UpdatedBig swings against Liberal candidates in Western Sydney and a record fourth term for the city's independent Lord Mayor are blamed on the NSW Premier who has "stopped listening".
Topics: local-government, elections, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, blacktown-2148, campbelltown-2560, penrith-2750, katoomba-2780, sydney-2000
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Police say a 54-year-old man was building a brick wall at the front of his home when he was run over and assaulted by a man he knew.
Topics: crime, shalvey-2770, blacktown-2148, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWith a swing to Labor recorded across western Sydney, Labor's Susan Templeman says local issues were vital for her win in the seat of Macquarie.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, katoomba-2780, blacktown-2148, richmond-hill-2480, parramatta-2150, bankstown-2200, liverpool-2170
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| UpdatedVoters along the T1 Western Line from Central Station to Penrith will help decide some of Sydney's most marginal seats, but what message will they send to the major parties?
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, elections, government-and-politics, people, sydney-2000, nsw, australia, quakers-hill-2763, kingswood-2747, blacktown-2148, rhodes-2138, strathfield-2135, penrith-2750, parramatta-2150
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| UpdatedSome of the highest rates of informal - or invalid - voting is happening in Western Sydney battleground electorates with high migrant populations, prompting calls for voter education.
Topics: government-and-politics, immigration, sydney-2000, padstow-2211, hurstville-2220, liverpool-2170, fairfield-2165, blacktown-2148, belmore-2192, canterbury-2193, lakemba-2195, parramatta-2150
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| UpdatedA teenage girl is in hospital after being stabbed in the back when a fight broke out during a street robbery at Blacktown in western Sydney last night.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedFremantle's losing streak has stretched to a seventh consecutive game in an 18-point loss at home to Greater Western Sydney.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, perth-6000, wa, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia
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A Federal Court fines a western Sydney 7-Eleven operator more than $200,000 for deliberately short-changing two migrant employees and falsifying records.
Topics: courts-and-trials, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedGreater Western Sydney strengthens its top-eight credentials, thumping St Kilda by 47 points at Docklands.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, melbourne-3000, st-kilda-3182, vic, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia
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NSW Health issues warning after four people were diagnosed with the highly contagious measles virus in the past week.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, diseases-and-disorders, sydney-airport-2020, sydney-2000, mascot-2020, mount-druitt-2770, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedA man is charged over the stabbing of three siblings at a home in Bungarribee in Sydney's west, police say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedTwo men are charged after police in Sydney's north-west make the largest seizure of hydroponic cannabis in NSW's history.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, courts-and-trials, riverstone-2765, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedGWS star Jeremy Cameron will miss several weeks of the start of the AFL season for his crude bump on Brisbane's Rhys Mathieson.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, blacktown-2148, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe council in Sydney's west votes not to change its name following a survey asking residents what they thought.
Topics: local-government, government-and-politics, blacktown-2148
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| UpdatedLance Franklin has made a quiet return to action for Sydney, with one goal and six touches in the Swans' 21-point AFL preseason challenge victory over Port Adelaide in Blacktown.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, wangaratta-3677, st-kilda-3182, port-adelaide-5015, sydney-2000, blacktown-2148, north-melbourne-3051