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A New South Wales farmer has placed a third of her property under a conservation covenant in the hope it will increase the value of the farm and its produce.
Topics: sustainable-and-alternative-farming, rural, conservation, environment, endangered-and-protected-species, nsw, australia
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A New South Wales beef and wool farmer has placed a third of her property under conservation in hopes the farm’s environmental credentials will attract 'high end' international buyers.
Topics: environmental-management, environment, rural, livestock, pasture, woomargama-2644, nsw
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Employment centres in Sydney's west are out-performing the city's east and the CBD on the time it takes for people to commute to work, Opal Card data reveals.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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| UpdatedTwo giant American air tankers, known as Southern Belle and Thor, have proven themselves yet again this bushfire season, the NSW RFS says.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-planning, queanbeyan-2620, canberra-2600, act, nsw, captains-flat-2623
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Australia's energy operator finds power plant failures contributed to the unprecedented pressure on the New South Wales electricity grid during this month's heatwave.
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| UpdatedSydney FC coach Graham Arnold says the obscene banner showed by Wanderers fans has distressed his family, as the club suspends membership of 14 fans in the Red and Black Bloc.
Topics: sport, soccer, a-league, antisocial-behaviour, sydney-2000, homebush-bay-2127, nsw, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedPremier Gladys Berejiklian resists calls to sack her new Minister Ray Williams over allegations he accepted illegal donations, but says the Liberal Party will assist the NSW Electoral Commission with any inquiries.
Topics: political-parties, state-parliament, castle-hill-2154, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedIf you want to know who's going to win the Oscars, your best bet is the bookmakers.
Topics: film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, academy-awards-oscars, australia, nsw
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Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, rural, gunning-2581, nsw, australia
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Wildlife carers, already overwhelmed by bushfires in southern New South Wales in January, are expecting hundreds of injured kangaroos from the Carwoola blaze over the coming weeks.
Topics: animals, livestock, rural, queanbeyan-2620, captains-flat-2623, nsw, act, canberra-2600
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Police seize more than 70 illegal weapons including knuckle dusters, machetes and metal throwing stars in a series of raids targeting the Lone Wolf bikie gang at Lismore in northern New South Wales.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, lismore-3324, nsw
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedOutlaw motorcycle gangs should be the target of consistent laws across all states Mildura, MP Peter Crisp says.
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| UpdatedThere has been an increase in the uptake of swimming classes in parts of NSW's north after an unusually high number of drownings this summer.
Topics: swimming, death, surf-life-saving, nsw, glen-innes-2370, glencoe-2365
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| UpdatedThere is a new program helping migrants launch their own businesses in an effort to tackle unemployment in the community.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThere are plans to wipe out one in five of Australia's remaining feral rabbits with a new strain of the calicivirus to be released next week.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia, act, wa, qld, tas, nt, nsw, sa
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus has been given a radical overhaul for the first time in 16 years. Here's what's changing.
Topics: education, subjects, states-and-territories, nsw
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| UpdatedThe New South Wales HSC syllabus gets a radical overhaul for the first time in 16 years, with a renewed focus on "rigour, thoroughness and depth" in classic learning areas and major changes in year 12 science and history teaching.
Topics: education, secondary, public-schools, subjects, nsw
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| UpdatedThe coal industry's multi-million-dollar advertising and lobbying campaign in the run-up to the last federal election was bankrolled by money deducted from state mining royalty payments and meant to fund research into "clean coal".
Topics: coal, environment, activism-and-lobbying, federal---state-issues, australia, qld, nsw
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Australian Border Force (ABF) officials have seized a record volume of illegal cigarettes and tobacco, which came into the country by mail. Many products were hidden inside fluffy toys, machinery, picture frames and shoes.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedWith Catherine Burn's confirmation she is applying to become NSW's next top cop, ABC's police reporter Jessica Kidd explains why the candidate has faced so much public criticism.
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Scott and Florence Harrod are undertaking a big-hearted journey around Australia to educate communities about mental health.
Topics: mental-health, depression, community-education, community-organisations, canberra-2600, nsw
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| UpdatedBorder Force officials seize a record volume of illegal cigarettes and tobacco, including products hidden inside fluffy toys, machinery, picture frames and platform shoes.
Topics: tobacco, smoking, health-policy, law-crime-and-justice, nsw, australia, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Wanderers are again under fire over supporters' behaviour after Saturday's derby against Sydney FC, with a homophobic banner brandished by its fans condemned by Football Federation Australia.
Topics: a-league, soccer, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia