Danuta Kozaki is a reporter for ABC News in Sydney. Follow her on Twitter: @danutakozaki
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Online sellers are being warned to be aware of their personal safety after 22-year-old man had a pair of high-priced sneakers stolen by a potential buyer in a Sydney park.
Topics: armed-robbery, crime, popular-culture, arts-and-entertainment, dulwich-hill-2203, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedAid groups scramble to control the spread of diseases among Rohingya refugees in Bangladeshi border camps, with a massive immunisation program underway to treat 150,000 children.
Topics: refugees, vaccines-and-immunity, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, bangladesh, burma
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| UpdatedWhat to do with any family members of Islamic State group fighters shapes up as a major problem for Australian security agencies, as the wives and children of foreign fighters are found in Iraq and Syria.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, international-law, australia, syrian-arab-republic, iraq
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| UpdatedFears grow another toll could be imposed on Sydney motorists, as reports circulate a major construction company has bid to build a toll road that would not be covered by the WestConnex cap.
Topics: road-transport, rail-transport, state-parliament, st-peters-2044, mascot-2020, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedAnti-whaling group Sea Shepherd abandons its bid to stop hunts as Japan uses military-grade technology to track its ships in the Southern Ocean, with founder Paul Watson saying "we are going to have find an alternative way to deal with them, and we will".
Topics: environment, conservation, person, brown-bob, australian-greens, greens, whaling, mammals---whales, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAs many as one-in-two cars with Takata's older 'Alpha' model airbags have a defect that could cause serious injury or death, consumer group Choice warns.
Topics: consumer-protection, automotive, road, road-transport, regulation, australia
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A new app is launched to help parents from culturally diverse backgrounds understand what their children are doing online and identify early warning signs of possible radicalisation.
Topics: internet-technology, social-media, mobile-phones, parenting, australia
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| UpdatedThe building company conducting renovations on the Sydney Opera House denies a work ban has been imposed by the union after the discovery of asbestos in wiring.
Topics: asbestos, sydney-2000
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Australian-born Melany Markham has just visited the war-ravaged Iraqi city of Mosul as part of efforts to help civilians who have lost everything and are now returning home to start again.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, relief-and-aid-organisations, iraq, australia, norway
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Bail is formally refused in the case of a Sydney man who allegedly tried to kidnap a woman last week and is also charged with assaulting several men in a pub in a separate case yesterday.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, parramatta-2150, dee-why-2099, belrose-2085, frenchs-forest-2086, burwood-2134
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| UpdatedPassengers on a Virgin flight from Sydney are forced to evacuate the plane via a window at Albury Airport after a man allegedly left a one-word note in the onboard bathroom.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, air-and-space, albury-2640, wodonga-3690, sydney-2000, sydney-airport-2020
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| UpdatedThe president of the scandal-plagued New South Wales RSL, John Haines, lays a wreath at Sydney's Anzac Day dawn service, in defiance of a request from the State Government to step aside from official duties.
Topics: anzac-day, national-days, community-and-society, event, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedSome members of Australia's Turkish community say they are upset and shocked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed victory so early in a referendum which will greatly expand his powers.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, referendums, community-and-society, community-organisations, australia, turkey
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| UpdatedThere are calls for a national approach to training overseas students about water safety after a disproportionately high number of drownings in New South Wales this summer, as one young woman shares the heartbreak of losing her two Nepalese friends.
Topics: education, tourism, surf-life-saving, other-sports, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedTurkish Australians are feeling the pressure over how they cast their votes in Turkey's referendum over whether President Erdogan gains extended powers over parliament, with parts of the Australia-wide community fracturing along party lines.
Topics: referendums, government-and-politics, community-and-society, sydney-2000, australia, turkey
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Ten people in Sydney's inner-west are being monitored for tuberculosis (TB), after an initial failure to diagnose a student with the infection, the New South Wales Health Department says.
Topics: infectious-diseases-other, doctors-and-medical-professionals, travel-health-and-safety, health, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe lawyer for Australian-Bulgarian citizen John Zakhariev, who is facing a terrorism trial in Bulgaria, says the Australian Government sent the Bulgarian Government a letter warning his client was "interested" in terrorism.
Topics: terrorism, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, australia, bulgaria
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| UpdatedWith thousands of new students starting university this week, an advocacy group claims violence against women is rife on Australian campuses, and there is a culture of covering up claims.
Topics: university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, education, sydney-2000, the-university-of-sydney-2006, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedWestpac, one of Australia's big four banks, investigates a major outage that has hit services at branches around the country.
Topics: banking, consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, australia
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The Malek Fahd Islamic School in south-western Sydney will reopen its doors next week, despite the ongoing legal battles over losing $19 million worth of federal funding.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, education, secondary-schools, community-and-society, greenacre-2190, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSydney's housing is rated less affordable than global metropolises New York and London in a report that paints a dire picture for the city's middle-income earners.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, government-and-politics, community-and-society, work, sydney-2000, tweed-heads-2485, moss-vale-2577, mittagong-2575, bowral-2576
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| UpdatedAs the mercury soars past 40 degrees Celsius in Sydney, spare a thought for the people of Moree, who are in the midst of a 27-day heatwave that has smashed records in New South Wales.
Topics: weather, environment, storm-event, moree-2400, nsw, sydney-2000
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A 48-year-old woman is under police guard in Canterbury Hospital in Sydney's south west, after a unit was destroyed by fire following an alleged domestic dispute in Hugh Street, Belmore.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, belmore-2192
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| UpdatedJohn Walsh, 77, is charged with murder after allegedly bashing to death his 71-year-old cellmate with a sandwich press in the frail aged unit at Sydney's Long Bay jail complex.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, assault, matraville-2036, maroubra-2035
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| UpdatedFifteen people have lost their lives in NSW after getting into trouble in water since Christmas, leaving rescue workers to warn it is the "season of distractions" that can quickly prove fatal.