Amanda Hoh is the Cross Media Reporter for 702 ABC Sydney. She was previously a video journalist and breaking news video editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. Amanda has also been an online reporter and producer at SBS, Sky News and News.com.au.
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For 115 years, an unassuming brick building tucked away in Ultimo has been pumping sewage for Sydney, playing a crucial part in cleaning up the Harbour and its waterways.
Topics: community-and-society, history, science-and-technology, sydney-2000
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The 2016 Koori Knockout will bring together more than 100 Indigenous rugby league teams together this long weekend, and the women want spectators to know their games will be the most exciting.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, sport, women, rugby-league, domestic-violence, waterloo-2017, redfern-2016, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe son of murdered police accountant Curtis Cheng is only now having time to reflect on the father he lost after a year of events and media attention about youth radicalisation.
Topics: people, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, police, terrorism, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Sydney Swans kick-start their grand final week with the cheers of dedicated fans spurring them on.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, human-interest, sydney-2000
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The best Australian musicians from the world's leading orchestras will perform an original concerto for eight double basses for the AWO's fifth anniversary.
Topics: music, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA "fairy godmother" has been delighting local children for two years by painting personalised pebbles in a fairy garden, but now the local council wants them gone.
Topics: human-interest, community-and-society, family-and-children, people, local-government, manly-2095, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedTheatre performances take visitors back to the brutal world of 1852 when the "worst of the worst" convicts were shipped to Cockatoo Island and put to work.
Topics: theatre, history, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, human-interest, sydney-2000
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Flu season across Australia has well and truly peaked for the year, with many states recording a decrease in the number of people struck down with influenza viruses since the end of winter.
Topics: influenza, health, diseases-and-disorders, coughs-and-colds, human-interest, sydney-2000, australia
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Sarah Houbolt is an international circus performer and wows audiences with her acrobatic and aerial skills, but many aren't aware she has a rare condition that makes her partially blind.
Topics: people, arts-and-entertainment, health, carnivals-and-festivals, disabilities, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAustralia's first project to build single-dwelling affordable homes for the homeless is set to begin construction on the Central Coast.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, lifestyle, charities-and-community-organisations, domestic-violence, gosford-2250, sydney-2000
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A medical expert takes issue with celebrity chef Pete Evans for telling an osteoporosis sufferer to remove dairy from her diet as it "removes calcium" from bones.
Topics: diet-and-nutrition, osteoporosis, bones-and-muscles, health, lifestyle-and-leisure, popular-culture, dairy-production, food-and-cooking, sydney-2000
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Emergency personnel and volunteers will simulate a plane crash and mass casualty situation at Barangaroo on Sunday as part of a training exercise.
Topics: emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, police, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedVasiliy and Vladimir Shapkin don't often like to "share the proceeds" by busking together, but the brothers are cleaning up playing crowd-stopping tunes around Sydney's CBD.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, people, sydney-2000
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Jodie Van Der Velden has the sweetest job in Sydney for the next two days as she smells and savours hundreds of entries in the annual chocolate show.
Topics: agricultural-shows, food-and-cooking, agribusiness, people, lifestyle-and-leisure, sydney-2000
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Students at Plumpton High School in western Sydney will be the first in the state to study journalism in years 9 and 10 next year.
Topics: education, secondary-schools, media-studies, abc, sydney-2000
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How do you stop bacteria multiplying on your food?
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| UpdatedDoes your approach to food preparation pass the sniff test? Here's everything you need to know about food poisoning, tummy bugs and use-by dates.
Topics: food-poisoning, food-safety, food-and-cooking, science-and-technology, health, human-interest, australia, sydney-2000, darwin-0800
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Brett Whiteley may no longer be putting brush to canvas, but he has inspired another artwork on a giant scale down the road from his former studio.
Topics: painting, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, television, visual-art, sydney-2000
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A robotic hand, sound-responsive feathers and a game for people with cerebral palsy are just some of the innovative products unveiled by students at the Young Creators Conference.
Topics: science-and-technology, education, schools, secondary-schools, primary-schools, inventions, computers-and-technology, sydney-2000
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The wildflowers of Muogamarra Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Sydney are starting their spring blooms and are on display to visitors for a limited time.
Topics: environment, lifestyle-and-leisure, conservation, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000
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Breaking Barriers is a fitness and mentorship program overseen by Indigenous elders and police who hope to inspire young Aboriginal people to avoid a life of crime.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, police, education, health, sydney-2000
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How do you describe what you feel when you're having an anxiety attack? Artists and researchers want to capture those feelings with a process called body mapping.
Topics: anxiety, health, mental-health, medical-research, research, science-and-technology, visual-art, sydney-2000
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Councils across Sydney successfully reduce the number of urban foxes in the past 12 months as part of a coordinated fox control program.
Topics: pests, animals, human-interest, local-government, environment, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe century-old Leichhardt bus depot has reopened with an impressive collection of vintage double-deckers that brings back old memories for many of the Sydney Bus Museum volunteers.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, human-interest, history, community-organisations, sydney-2000
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An exhibition showcasing rare musical scores dating back to the 18th century is on display at the University of Sydney two years after the collection was damaged by fire.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, human-interest, library-museum-and-gallery, sydney-2000