Sydney

• The unfinished business of NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione

  By police reporter Jessica Kidd

  Posted March 19, 2017 10:39:11 | Updated March 19, 2017 12:49:33

  Facing retirement as one of New South Wales' longest serving police chiefs, Andrew Scipione says his work is not done in addressing domestic violence, the scourge of ice and associated violent crime.

  Topics: police, crime, terrorism, domestic-violence, sydney-2000, nsw

• Happy 85th birthday to the Sydney Harbour Bridge (audio)

  ABC Radio Sydney

  By Amanda Hoh

  Posted March 19, 2017 08:00:00

  Of all the nicknames the Sydney Harbour Bridge has received in the past 85 years, the Iron Lung is one that echoes its significance for those who built it between 1923 and 1932.

  Topics: history, community-and-society, human-interest, sydney-2000

• Brumbies down Waratahs to claim inaugural Dan Vickerman Cup

  Posted March 18, 2017 22:39:20

  The Brumbies notch back-to-back wins over the NSW Waratahs for the first time in Super Rugby history.

  Topics: super-rugby, rugby-union, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, canberra-2600, act, australia

• George Burgess in strife for throwing elbows

  Posted March 18, 2017 20:30:49 | Updated March 18, 2017 23:04:42

  A George Burgess elbow sours South Sydney's win over Newcastle, with Knights skipper Trent Hodkinson also sent from the field for showing dissent to a referee.

  Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, newcastle-2300, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• New Monopoly tokens T-Rex, rubber ducky and penguin a hit with fans

  By Sue Daniel and Antoinette Lattouf

  Posted March 18, 2017 17:18:30

  Monopoly fans have voted in droves to replace three of the game's traditional tokens, the thimble, the boot and the wheelbarrow, with new tokens including a tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky.

  Topics: board-and-card-games, games, arts-and-entertainment, sydney-2000, australia

• Cowboys shocked by Manly after Rabbitohs, Roosters win

  Posted March 18, 2017 15:53:34 | Updated March 18, 2017 23:21:38

  The Rabbitohs win a spiteful clash with Newcastle, the Roosters beat Penrith at the death, and the Cowboys are shocked by Manly in Townsville.

  Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, newcastle-2300, penrith-2750, sydney-2000, sydney-south-2000, manly-2095, brookvale-2100, nsw, australia, townsville-4810, qld

• Folk singer Martha Wainwright talks about the family business Video

  Video
  ABC News

  6min 13sec

  Posted March 17, 2017 20:21:47

  Martha Wainwright's father is American folk legend Loudon Wainwright; her mother and aunty are Canada's famous McGarrigal sisters; and her brother is singer songwriter Rufus Wainwright. It was almost inevitable that she'd end up being a singer as well.

  Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, folk, sydney-2000

• REX flight forced into emergency landing after losing propeller

  By national technology reporter Jake Sturmer

  Posted March 17, 2017 15:21:24 | Updated March 17, 2017 22:42:29

  A Regional Express flight from Albury to Sydney is forced to make an emergency landing after losing one of its propellers while flying at approximately 6,000 feet with 16 passengers and three crew members on board.

  Topics: emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, sydney-2000, nsw, albury-2640, australia

• Irrigators want guarantee timing of water releases from Snowy will suit their crops

  ABC Rural

  By Sarina Locke

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:58:33

  Irrigators reliant on the Snowy scheme want reassurances water will be released when they need it, after the Prime Minister's announcement the hydro scheme will be expanded.

  Topics: agricultural-prices, electricity-energy-and-utilities, hydro-energy, irrigation, sydney-2000, griffith-2680, wagga-wagga-2650, hume-weir-3691

• Martin Place may get new metro station, towers and shops

  By Lucy McNally

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:41:12

  Macquarie Group submits a proposal to the NSW Government to build a metro station at Martin Place, complete with two office towers and shops on elevated terraces.

  Topics: rail-transport, transport, industry, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, sydney-2000, nsw

• Senate inquiry seeks to quell hysteria around shark attacks

  By Lee Brooks and Liz Farquhar

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:41:12

  A Senate inquiry is aiming to quell public hysteria surrounding shark attacks, by looking at how modern technology can track their movements.

  Topics: shark, federal-government, surfing, ballina-2478, redhead-2290, perth-6000, sydney-2000, southport-4215

• NSW fishermen say white spot is a big threat

  ABC Rural

  By Bronwyn Herbert

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:39:41

  Fishermen in New South Wales are devastated by the news the prawn disease white spot is more widespread in Moreton Bay than first thought.

  Topics: fishing-aquaculture, agricultural-policy, tweed-heads-2485, sydney-2000

• St Patrick's Day organisers make 'painful' decision to cancel Sydney parade

  By Paige Cockburn

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:22:31 | Updated March 17, 2017 13:27:38

  Even the luck of the Irish has not spared Sydney's St Patrick's Day celebrations from the drenching the city has received this week with the event now cancelled.

  Topics: community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, sydney-2000

• Anglican Church 'ashamed' about 1,000 complaints of child sex abuse

  By Clare Blumer and Michelle Brown

  Posted March 17, 2017 13:01:29 | Updated March 17, 2017 16:19:34

  Every Anglican Church diocese in the country bar one has received complaints of child sexual abuse in the past 35 years, a report finds.

  Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, anglicans, australia, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000

• NZ man jailed for killing pedestrian in Melbourne hit-and-run

  By Karen Percy

  Posted March 17, 2017 10:50:09 | Updated March 17, 2017 11:19:45

  A man who sped through a red light in a stolen car and fatally ran down 24-year-old Tanami Nayler (pictured) is sentenced to 11 years in jail, with a non-parole period of seven years.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, west-melbourne-3003, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, vic

• What would Sydney look like if it hadn't been developed?

  RN

  By Ann Jones for Off Track

  Posted March 17, 2017 10:34:36 | Updated March 17, 2017 12:02:56

  Booderee National Park is only a few hours' drive from Sydney — but it might as well be in a different era.

  Topics: animals, conservation, biological-diversity, endangered-and-protected-species, land-management, jervis-bay-2540, nsw, sydney-2000, australia

• Aboriginal remains to be retrieved from Germany

  ABC North Coast

  By Samantha Turnbull, Catherine Marciniak, and Joanne Shoebridge

  Posted March 17, 2017 09:44:32 | Updated March 17, 2017 13:34:25

  Ancestral Aboriginal remains currently housed in a German museum will be returned to Australia next week.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, library-museum-and-gallery, community-and-society, grafton-2460, copmanhurst-2460, atherton-4883, sydney-2000, germany

• Schools bursting at seams as apartment boom puts pressure on catchments

  RN

  By David Lewis for Background Briefing

  Posted March 17, 2017 09:10:25 | Updated March 17, 2017 10:24:47

  An explosion in the number of high-rise apartments across our capital cities is dramatically driving up student enrolments, resulting in "jam-packed" public schools.

  Topics: public-schools, schools, education, building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, sydney-2000, nsw

• Flash flooding expected in NSW (photos)

  By Dom Vukovic

  Posted March 17, 2017 08:15:20 | Updated March 17, 2017 20:08:02

  Heavy rain and possible flash flooding is expected to hit the state's Hunter, mid-north coast and northern tablelands over the next 24 hours, with a severe weather warning now in place.

  Topics: weather, floods, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300, wollongong-2500, sydney-2000, nambucca-heads-2448, bellingen-2454, upper-orara-2450, shellharbour-2529, port-kembla-2505, unanderra-2526

• Farmers remain at odds with gas companies over fracking despite energy crisis

  ABC Rural

  By Sarina Locke

  Posted March 16, 2017 14:58:18

  National Farmers Federation calls for energy solution, but farmers fighting coal seam gas fear it will be at their expense.

  Topics: agricultural-prices, agribusiness, oil-and-gas, solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, irrigation, sydney-2000, warrnambool-3280, darwin-0800, chinchilla-4413, mullaley-2379

• Australia fumes as SANZAAR dithers over Super Rugby future

  Posted March 16, 2017 09:05:29

  No solid news about the future make-up of the Super Rugby competition is leading to frustration in Australia, with speculation one team is likely to be culled.

  Topics: super-rugby, sport, rugby-union, sydney-2000, nsw, brisbane-4000, qld, perth-6000, wa, melbourne-3000, vic, canberra-2600, act, new-zealand, south-africa, australia

• Wil Anderson's art of politics in the Trump era

  By Matt Eaton

  Posted March 16, 2017 07:02:44 | Updated March 16, 2017 07:41:25

  Comedian Wil Anderson is instituting the Voldemort rule for what he calls his most political show ever, but no prize for guessing he who shall not be named.

  Topics: comedy-humour, us-elections, brisbane-4000, hobart-7000, melbourne-3000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, sydney-2000, darwin-0800

• Plans for Sydney siege memorial stall

  By state political reporter Brigid Glanville

  Posted March 16, 2017 06:54:30

  More than two years after the hostage situation at the Lindt Cafe, in which two people died, there is sill no timeframe to build a planned permanent tribute in Sydney's Martin Place.

  Topics: police-sieges, crime, law-crime-and-justice, death, community-and-society, terrorism, sydney-2000

• Then and now: The women tipped to make it in 'a man's world'

  By Ann Arnold

  Posted March 16, 2017 05:52:30

  In 1990, two Sydney schoolgirls were celebrated by The Bulletin as women who would make it in "a man's world". So did they? Ann Arnold tracks them down to find out.

  Topics: careers, family-and-children, feminism, women, work, offbeat, sydney-2000

• Prosecutor presented Gordon Wood trial evidence fairly, court told

  By court reporter Jamelle Wells

  Posted March 15, 2017 16:10:00

  The most senior prosecutor in NSW, Mark Tedeschi, defends allegations he failed to present evidence fairly to the jury in the murder trial of Gordon Wood.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000

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