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Sydney's toxic footprint: The suburbs most at risk from lead contamination
It comes as new research has raised fresh concerns about the risks posed by home grown vegetables and eggs.
- by Carrie Fellner and Nigel Gladstone
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Education
Morrison government wipes $500 million in dodgy debt from students
The Morrison government has this year wiped around $500 million worth of dodgy debt accumulated by unsuspecting students as part of the most disastrous education rort in Australia’s history.
- by Farrah Tomazin
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Parliament House
'Nothing could prepare you': Labor frontbencher calls for end to 'aggressive' question time
Labor frontbencher Clare O'Neil has a radical suggestion for fixing question time: get rid of it.
- by Judith Ireland
Opinion
James Cook
The shield and spears Captain Cook purloined may yet return to our shores
![A lithograph depicting the arrival of the Endeavour, titled Captain Cook's Landing at Botany [Bay] in 1770.](http://web.archive.org./web/20191130235306im_/https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.1374%2C$multiply_0.381%2C$ratio_1%2C$width_378%2C$x_34%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/65908d466b802f8096c76497be2188ca99d71c99)
It's been a long campaign for the return of Aboriginal artifacts held in Britain, but some action may be in sight.
- by Peter FitzSimons
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I'm part of the solution, not the problem, says bar tsar Justin Hemmes
"It's our job to make this work now the shackles have been removed," says the Merivale boss.
- by Michael Koziol
London terror victim stabbed to death by the type of man he wanted to help
The father of one of the two people killed in the London Bridge terror attack has warned British politicians against using the murder as a pretext for more "draconian" prison sentences.
- by Bevan Shields
Man dies at Strawberry Fields music festival
A 24-year-old man has died of a suspected drug overdose at the Strawberry Fields music festival in NSW's south-west on Sunday morning.
- by Pallavi Singhal
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Health
Chew and spit: High rate of eating disorder warning signs among school kids
The findings prompted researchers to question whether chewing and spitting should be recognised as an eating disorder symptom, six years after it was removed from the diagnostic criteria.
- by Kate Aubusson
Analysis
Test cricket
Flat track Bull? Warner's 335 was a supreme performance
The paradox of gigantic individual innings is that the better they are, the longer they go, the easier the batting seems.
- by Malcolm Knox
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ARIAs
Hiding our misery behind our tans: It's time to retire the annual ARIA awards pile-on
- by Nathanael Cooper
Tennis Australia rebukes Margaret Court for views which have 'demeaned and hurt many'
- by Scott Spits and Goya Dmytryshchak
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City life
'It has to stop': Restrictions on live music and dancing to be scrapped to restart nightlife
Arcane clauses dictate the type of music bars can play, ban dance floors or even specify the direction bands must face.
- by Michael Koziol
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Gambling
'As long as you gamble, you feel like an Australian': One in six teenagers are gambling underage
Underage gambling is “normalised” in Australia and it's not just private betting with friends and family.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dusty towns battle drought as federal and state Nationals squabble over Murray-Darling plan
The land is so parched in drought-ravaged parts of NSW that dust storms leave towns blanketed in thick red dirt and residents battling all sorts of health complaints.
- by Alexandra Smith
National
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Sex work
'Off the streets and on the net': solicitation charges dwindle as sex workers shift online
- by Farrah Tomazin
Australian farmer sues over claims Roundup caused his cancer
- by Jewel Topsfield, Tyson Whelan and Charlotte Morton
Good Weekend
Good Weekend's Who Mattered 2019: Film / TV / stage
- by Konrad Marshall
Yule love this: The ultimate festive feast to serve up this Christmas
Spice up the traditional Christmas meal with a three-course feast that riffs on Asian and Italian flavours.
- by Neil Perry, Karen Martini and Helen Goh
Adut Akech Bior: 'Whoever doesn’t see it as racist has a problem'
The fashion model on growing up in a refugee camp and the insulting moment no Australian should find acceptable.
- by Benjamin Law
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Climate policy
'Power would have been cheaper': Regrets and rancour 10 years after carbon scheme defeated
Australians would enjoy lower power prices today if Federal Parliament had not vetoed a plan 10 years ago to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to those who fought to put the scheme in place.
- by David Crowe
Private health is in a 'death spiral'. What can be done?
- by Patrick Hatch and Dana McCauley
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Interest rates
RBA's Lowe offers no let-out for PM as he hoses down QE, business as unusual
Lowe’s first act was to pooh-pooh most of the unconventional policies the letters QE conjure up. He identified four possible tools and rejected two and a half of them.
- by Ross Gittins
Australia a 'treasure island' for medical device giants: ex-hospital boss
- by Patrick Hatch and Dana McCauley
World
'I looked around and everyone was dead': life in hiding
Almost three years after Ryan was shot in the hip and his three teenage friends murdered, he is still in hiding in a climate of impunity in Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs.
- by Nicole Precel
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Is this the perfect spot to live on the upper north shore?
Twelve kilometres north-west of the Sydney CBD, the suburb is known for its quaint shopping village and handsome houses.
- by Elicia Murray
Sydney's 'missed opportunity' costing the city billions, expert says
The state government's push to build more near Sydney's train lines looks to have hit a snag, with new figures showing progress appears to have stalled.
- by Tawar Razaghi
Culture
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Music awards
Aussie superstar Flume on awards and sliding into Rihanna's DMs
Sidestepping the usual agent-manager rigmarole, Flume prefers to dance to the beat of his own drum.
- by John Buckley
Mick Jagger's daughters roll in to bring '80s glam to gala
The third NGV Gala celebrated the launch of an exhibition featuring works of '80s icons Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and more.
- by Melissa Singer
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For the first time, you can buy a front-row seat at fashion week
- by Melissa Singer
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Sport
Warner could have gone for world record and Australia still won: Taylor
Mark Taylor praised Tim Paine for putting the team first, but said David Warner could have had a shot at Brian Lara’s 400 and Australia still won in Adelaide.
- by Chris Barrett
Analysis
NRL 2020
Addo-Carr isn't foxing about wanting a move back to Sydney
Josh Addo-Carr is giving serious consideration to walking away from the final two years of his contract in Melbourne.
- by Danny Weidler
'Painey wanted me to get past 334': Pakistan collapse after Warner's piece of history
David Warner made the second highest score by an Australian in Tests before Mitchell Starc tore through Pakistan.
- by Chris Barrett
Is it over yet? Pressure on Mundine to quit after loss to Muay Thai legend
Anthony Mundine's boxing career hangs in the balance after the former WBA super-middleweight champion lost to John Wayne Parr in Brisbane.
Relentless Liverpool march on as Man City stumble at Newcastle
Liverpool opened up an 11-point gap at the top of the table on Saturday when they scraped out a 2-1 win over Brighton and Hove Albion.
- by Martyn Herman
Opinion
NRL 2020
Older, wiser Mitchell will look back and see things very differently
Who hasn't looked back and wished they had handled things differently when we were younger. The Roosters star will be no different.
- by Neil Breen
Portugal, France and Germany thrown together in 'group of death'
England were drawn with their 2018 World Cup conquerors Croatia while other favourites were given an easier ride in a lop-sided and complicated Euro 2020 draw.
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Flat track Bull? Why Warner's 335 was a supreme performance
The paradox of gigantic individual innings is that the better they are, the longer they go, the easier the batting seems.
