Mazoe Ford is a reporter and producer with ABC News and Current Affairs in Sydney. Mazoe joined the ABC in July 2014 after a decade in commercial television with Channels Nine and Ten, and three years in London with BBC News and Al Jazeera English. You can follow Mazoe on Twitter: @MazoeFord.
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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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| UpdatedLegendary skateboarder Tony Hawk takes to the skate bowl at Bondi Beach at age 48 for one of the sport's biggest competitions.
Topics: sport, community-and-society, bondi-beach-2026
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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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| UpdatedMark and Jane Rice's Uarbry home was spared from the fire, but with most of their village now destroyed — including the church where they were married — they feel as though they are homeless.
Topics: fires, bushfire, uarbry-2329, leadville-2844
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| UpdatedSportspeople, musicians, business leaders and humanitarians are among the New South Wales people to receive 2017 Australia Day honours.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, community-organisations, australia-day, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA nurse who has served at international disaster zones and former prime minister Julia Gillard are among the list of 958 people recognised on the Australia Day honours list for 2017. Here is what some of the recipients had to say.
Topics: event, australia-day, community-and-society, human-interest, government-and-politics, australia
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With the New South Wales Premier stepping down from the state's top job, there is also a vacancy in the seat of Manly and several Liberal Party members are rumoured to be vying for preselection.
Topics: local-government, state-parliament, manly-2095
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"Jack" finds origami and paper art to be an unlikely complement to his counselling in a new treatment program for the drug ice, which is now rolling out across NSW.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, health, darlinghurst-2010, mount-druitt-2770, wagga-wagga-2650, goulburn-2580, dubbo-2830, nsw
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| UpdatedWhen a child walks for the first time it is a moment of great joy, but one Sydney family is yet to experience that with their four-year-old daughter Isabella, who has a form of cerebral palsy called spastic diplegia.
Topics: cerebral-palsy, health, diseases-and-disorders, medical-procedures, sydney-2000, united-states
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Two young skaters — one an Australian with Indigenous heritage and the other a Russian — are charging towards the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Topics: figure-skating, sport, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canterbury-2193
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| UpdatedThousands of school leavers hoping to study further will today find out whether they achieved the ATAR scores they needed to enter their courses of choice.
Topics: education-industry, secondary-schools, public-schools, schools, education, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedApparently, the heat is on and we should all brace ourselves for temperature Armageddon, but let us just remind you this is Sydney, it is December, it is summer.
Topics: weather, health, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA Japanese rocket containing 100 experiments created by Australian high school students for astronauts from NASA to test is on its way to the International Space Station.
Topics: space-exploration, spacecraft, astronomy-space, science, mathematics, computers-and-technology, sydney-2000, australia, japan
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| UpdatedWoolworths did not violate consumer law through its Mind the Gap scheme in 2014, which saw the retailer claim $18 million from suppliers to help reduce a $53 million shortfall in half-year profits, a federal court judge rules.
Topics: agricultural-prices, business-economics-and-finance, consumer-protection, food-processing, vegetables, australia
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| UpdatedConvicted murderer Malcom Naden led New South Wales police on one of the biggest police manhunts in the state's history. Here is how they finally tracked him down after he had spent seven years on the run.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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| Updated"This is a little bit of a wake-up call for us, isn't it?" says Mission Australia's chief, with a third of young people experiencing race-based discrimination according to the charity's survey.
Topics: discrimination, community-and-society, human, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralian teenagers see mental health as one of the top three issues facing the nation, shortly behind drugs and alcohol and equity and discrimination, according to a new survey.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, mental-health, anxiety, charities-and-community-organisations, sydney-2000
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A new agreement between the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and the State Government aims to grow Indigenous business ownership, entrepreneurship and employment.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, work, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church reaches a confidential settlement with two sisters who say they were sexually abused by a priest in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese in the 1970s and 80s.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, catholic, sexual-offences, child-abuse, religion-and-beliefs, newcastle-2300, nsw, maitland-2320
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| UpdatedAt a time of heightened political debate in Australia and overseas, both sides of politics have taken some difficult questions from Year 5 and 6 students about what matters to them.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, community-and-society, children, birchgrove-2041, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedUp to 14 people died prematurely due to smoke from a hazard reduction burn in Sydney, new research finds, prompting calls for better warnings.
Topics: fires, health, asthma, bushfire, death, environmental-health, medical-research, research, sydney-2000, tas
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| UpdatedThe US billionaire's surge to the White House has had time to sink in, and Australians have diverse opinions about how the President-elect will perform.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedMore than 50 Sydney buildings which are normally off-limits to the public will open their doors on Sunday, including the Lands Department Building, Hong Kong House, Legion House, the Great Synagogue and Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay.
Topics: history, art-history, architecture, sydney-2000
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| Updated'A mini Tate right here in Sydney' is how curators are describing the Art Gallery of NSW's major summer exhibition, Nude: art from the Tate collection.
Topics: art-history, contemporary-art, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedHundreds of students from schools in west and south-west Sydney have spent the day learning about the jobs of the future as part of the Spark Festival at The Powerhouse Museum.
Topics: computers-and-technology, information-technology, careers, career-counselling, secondary-schools, sydney-2000