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The street isn't seeing busloads of international tourists like normal due to the pandemic, but has instead seen a swarm of brides and international students this year. 
Tourism

Purple patch for Kirribilli jacarandas but locals have a lilac whine

North Sydney mayor Jilly Gibson says council is awaiting approval to plant more trees in the area but some locals are unhappy about the swelling numbers of visitors.

  • by Sarah Keoghan
The man is set to face court on Tuesday after allegedly sexually touching the 19-year-old woman at Top Ryde City Shopping Centre on October 21.
Crime

83-year-old man charged with touching teenager at Sydney shopping centre

  • by Sarah Keoghan
Jacarandas trees in Kirribilli. Tourists have been replaced by Brides and foreign tourists. 9th Nov 2020. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH
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Kirribilli Jacarandas

Minister for Mental Health Bonnie Taylor at the announcement of a new suicide monitoring system at a press conference in Lidcombe on 09 November, 2020. Photo: Brook Mitchell / SMH
Mental health

No spike in NSW suicides in 2020, despite COVID-19 lockdowns, bushfires

  • by Kate Aubusson
St George Illawarra star Jack de Belin is facing trial in the NSW District Court in Wollongong.
De Belin trial

Jack de Belin and Callan Sinclair rape trial hears of 'another man' in apartment

  • by Angus Thompson
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Politics

The federal and NSW government's are supporting a new grid scale battery to help accommodate the growing share of renewable energy in the electricity grid.
Editorial
Electricity

NSW road map offers a way out of energy uncertainty

The plan to underwrite renewables will help meet Paris Agreement targets, even as the federal government equivocates.

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Composite image of Jihad Dib, Stuart Ayres and the new Sydney boundaries. 
State Parliament

Liberal seats become more marginal, Labor electorate axed in border changes

Jobs Minister Stuart Ayres could face a tough battle to hold his already marginal western Sydney seat, while the Labor electorate of Lakemba is to be abolished, under the draft changes.

  • by Alexandra Smith
NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean will deliver a significant energy roadmap on Monday.
Analysis
Electricity

Kean may have found a path through the energy gridlock

  • by Nick O'Malley
A 'wave' of new solar farms across the world has meant renewables accounted for more than two-thirds of extra electricity generation installed in 2019, Bloomberg New Energy Finance says.
Renewables

NSW's ambitious plan to become renewable superpower

  • by Alexandra Smith
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the funding boost will cement NSW as the best place to do business in Australia.
NSW budget

$250 million jobs program to lure businesses to set up shop in NSW

  • by Lucy Cormack

Crime & Courts

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Education

Schools dispute the results of one HSC exam more than any other
HSC

Schools dispute the results of one HSC subject twice as often as any other

  • by Jordan Baker
Teaching

New education centre aims to end culture war over student testing

  • by Jordan Baker
HSC

How patterns of study are shifting for HSC science students

  • by Natassia Chrysanthos

Health

Minister for Mental Health Bonnie Taylor at the announcement of a new suicide monitoring system at a press conference in Lidcombe on 09 November, 2020. Photo: Brook Mitchell / SMH
Mental health

No spike in NSW suicides in 2020, despite COVID-19 lockdowns, bushfires

  • by Kate Aubusson
Coronavirus pandemic

Four new local cases in NSW closes two schools; premiers tussle over Origin

  • by Kate Aubusson and Lydia Lynch
Coronavirus pandemic

Staff member worked at Liverpool restaurant while potentially infectious

  • by Mary Ward and Stuart Layt

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