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'Taken too soon:' Stabbing victim remembered as government responds to tragedy

'Taken too soon:' Stabbing victim remembered as government responds to tragedy

'Taken too soon:' Stabbing victim remembered as government responds to tragedy

Online she appeared like any other 24-year-old woman: happy, smiling, posing in photos in sunny travels around the world. But this week, Michaela Dunn became the latest face revealing the toll of violence against women in Australia.

  • by Lucy Cormack
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US sharemarkets plunge as recession fears mount

US stock markets plunged on Wednesday, local time, amid heightened fears of a recession.

US President responded by lashing out at his Federal Reserve chairman and decrying the "crazy" inverted yield curve.

  • by Matthew Knott

Councillor 'on the verge of tears' reading report about NSW pipeline

Long-awaited business case for water pipeline linking Broken Hill to the Murray River shows Northern Basin irrigators were to be among the primary beneficiaries.

The justification for the $500 million Broken Hill water pipeline prioritised irrigators and all but ignored the environment, the project's business case says.

  • by Peter Hannam
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Education

Secretive teacher investigation unit has 'substantial flaws'

A review of the NSW Department of Education's investigation unit found serious issues with the timeliness of information given to accused staff and witnesses

A secretive Department of Education investigation unit was "creating havoc" in the lives of those it investigates, a damning report has found.

  • by Jordan Baker

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Ashes washout will provide a timely test of Mark Taylor’s theory

Ashes washout will provide a timely test of Mark Taylor’s theory

Is the second Test going to be a better form of entertainment when compressed into four days?

  • by Malcolm Knox
Rendering of Walsh Bay redevelopment with Pier 2/3 in the background.

'It's scandalous': Walsh Bay redevelopment plans stalled

Top Sydney arts companies are in limbo after work on their new lodgings at Walsh Bay's Pier 2/3 has failed to go ahead.

  • by Linda Morris, Nick Galvin and Megan Gorrey
Cheating at Sydney uni up by 2000 per cent after new detection methods used

Cheating at Sydney uni up by 2000 per cent after new detection methods used

By improving the university's investigative techniques, its staff were able to spot simple giveaways.

  • by Pallavi Singhal
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the public from Downing Street via Facebook.

Boris Johnson condemns 'collaborators' in Facebook video stunt

The live Facebook 'People's PMQs' was an innovation dreamed up by an Australian aide.

  • by Nick Miller
Antonio Basco, whose wife Margie Reckard died in the El Paso shooting.

His only relative died in El Paso. He has invited everyone to her funeral

Tributes, as well as flowers and cards, have poured in from across the country after Antonio Basco invited everyone to his wife's funeral.

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Graeme Samuel says a single rule should govern the pharmacy sector: No PBS drug should be able to be issued to a consumer without a fully-qualified pharmacist.

Discount chemists the new Uber: Former ACCC chief backs pharmacy deregulation

Graeme Samuel says governments bowing to the Pharmacy Guild ought to have learned from the other industry to have been safeguarded from pro-competition reforms: taxis.

  • by Dana McCauley

Business

MD Computers offers computer and products reselling and repairs. Malooloba, Queensland.

'Absolutely unacceptable': Business fury over Google ad policy

Businesses say they are being blocked from advertising on Google as the ombudsman says lack of transparency is a problem.

  • by Emma Koehn

World

Airport security staff stand guard at the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China.

Security net descends on Hong Kong airport

Flights resumed at one of the world’s biggest air travel hubs on Wednesday as a police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters across town.

  • by Kirsty Needham
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'No doubt we see flow-on effects': Top developers react to unit defects

'No doubt we see flow-on effects': Top developers react to unit defects

Sydney’s apartment market has been rocked by news of unprecedented building defects over the past year. Here's how top-tier developers are responding.

  • by Tawar Razaghi
Young Australians show ‘blind optimism’ they’ll own a home: report

Young Australians show ‘blind optimism’ they’ll own a home: report

Many young people even struggle to find their own rental, yet believe they would be able to buy a home within five years, a new study shows.

  • by Jim Malo
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Entertainment

Investigated: Placido Domingo accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour, which the opera legend has denied.

Opera star Placido Domingo to be investigated for sexual harassment

The allegations have shocked the opera world where Domingo remains, at 78, an enormous force.

  • by Michael Cooper and Alex Marshall
Sam Cotton and Genevieve Hegney in Diary of an Uber Driver

Uber is the modern Fawlty Towers as strangers collide

New TV comedy Diary of an Uber Driver taps into rich comedic history of forcing people to interact despite their differences.

  • by Ben Pobjie

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Star Wars is struggling to win over the next generation of kids

Star Wars is struggling to win over the next generation of kids

It's hard to say this, as someone who grew up pretending to be Han Solo battling Darth Vader, but kids might not be into Star Wars anymore.

  • by Crayton Harrison
What were you thinking?

Three big workout fails you don't realise you're doing

Have you really lived if you don't look back on your past and think, "Man, I was stupid back then"?

  • by Sam Downing
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Sport

The covers remained on at Lord's for most of the first day.

Australia confirm Hazlewood inclusion amid Ashes first-day washout

The first day of the second Test at Lord's was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Wednesday due to persistent rain in London.

  • by Chris Barrett
SPORT: BOXING: Tim Tszyu v Dwight Ritchie — WBO Global and IBF Australasian super welterweight titles at the ICC. 14th August 2019, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald.

Tim Tszyu remains undefeated as he hones in on Jeff Horn

Tim Tszyu has moved a step closer towards a superfight with Jeff Horn after earning a unanimous points decision against tough Victorian Dwight Ritchie.

  • by Adrian Proszenko

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