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‘I’ve really struggled’: Liberal MP recalls past abuse in call for change

Liberal MP Lucy Wicks with her children on North Avoca Beach.

Lucy Wicks didn’t go to the March For Justice outside Parliament House because the events of this year have stirred up the pain of her own past.

Letters
Letters

We asked readers to tell us their stories, and hundreds responded

Scott Morrison said he was listening, so we asked women to tell us their stories. And they have - in the hundreds. It’s over to you now, Prime Minister.

Tears and words aren’t enough, it’s time for action on treatment of women

The anguish has gone on too long without turning into action on the broken culture within Parliament and violence against women across society.

Parliament’s latest outrage and the man who revealed it

Parliament’s latest outrage and the man who revealed it

Liberal staffer Nathan Winn deserved to be sacked for performing a lewd act on his boss’ desk, but he is not Canberra’s big problem.

Morrison wanted to show us the female side of his brain but then it all went horribly wrong

A visibly distressed Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a press conference in Canberra on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister, as is well understood by now, bristles at the very idea of scrutiny.

A death spiral Scott Morrison struggles to arrest

As mounting scandals envelop his government, the PM is trapped in a mindset of grudging minimalism with any attempted remedial action.

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Electric cars

Don’t plug in tax on electric cars: Kean takes on Treasurer

The NSW Environment Minister wants to encourage electric car users while Dominic Perrottet wants to tax them. It’s a disagreement playing out across the country.

‘Are you going to attack a magistrate next?’: Strike force intimidated solicitor

‘Are you going to attack a magistrate next?’: Strike force intimidated solicitor

Two police officers were directed to intimidate a solicitor after he refused a request for police to give court evidence via video link, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission found.

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Franchising

‘Trapped and we can’t get out’: Botox, laser hair removal clinics face uprising

Laser Clinics Australia franchisees have launched an uprising.

An investigation into the largest operator in Australia’s $4.5 billion a year laser hair removal and cosmetic injectables industry reveals franchisee anger.

From One Nation to neo-Nazism: extremism threat in the suburbs

Secret recruiting tapes made by international radical right-wing group The Base show how Aussies are being drawn into extremism.

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‘Screams howled as we flew into a flood of high beams. I’m dead, I thought’

At 17, Lech Blaine was in a car accident in which three of his friends died, and one was left with a permanent brain injury. He walked away, physically unharmed. Mentally however, it was a different story.

Ships take U-turn to avoid jam, sail into pirate-infested waters

The cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Friday, March 26, 2021.

Companies must calculate whether to wait out the Suez Canal logjam or send their cargo through the world’s most dangerous shipping route.

Biden invites Morrison to climate summit, urges lift in ambition

The invite marks a welcome change for Morrison from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision not to ask him to join a similar summit last year.

Ed Sheeran’s narrow escape from the NSW floods

Ed Sheeran, seen here in a photo from his Instagram page, with his then long-time girlfriend and now wife Cherry Seaborn.

The pop star and his family managed to leave their accommodation near the Hawkesbury River on the last road that had not been closed off due to rising floodwaters.

Bindi Irwin welcomes first child, honours father with name

Bindi Irwin and her husband Chandler Powell have announced the birth of their first child, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell. Source: Instagram

“Happy first wedding anniversary to my sweetheart husband and day of birth to our beautiful daughter,” Bindi Irwin wrote.

The verdict on the eight movies up for best picture at the Oscars

Film writer Garry Maddox rates the contenders for this year’s top Academy Award.

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Weekend reads

Children have no idea how to share and you mustn’t force them to do so before they understand it, lest they come to resent the concept.

Getting into the swing of playground etiquette

Some parents want nothing more than to engage with someone – anyone – who is not screaming at them for a juice box. Others are not pleased to be there.

Jessie (at left) and Clare Stephens: “Jessie would go for alpha men, whereas I prefer quiet, creative types.”

‘The interdependence isn’t healthy’: the twins navigating life, love – and the same workplace

Fraternal twins Jessie and Clare Stephens started writing a blog together at university and have worked at media group Mamamia since 2015. They’ve weathered heartbreak, anxiety – and a heap of reality TV.

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 Jenny Allum, SCEGGS Darlinghurst School Principal, is one of our columnists for the Education Page, which will run on Mondays featuring columns with people such as Jenny. Monday 28th Augusat 2018 SMH photo Louie Douvis .

‘Very political’: Principals sorry schools rushed to sign plan to tackle consent

The three school sectors have signed a pledge to do more to address sexual assault. But some principals think it’s political and pointless without the involvement of parents.

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Roads

Taxpayers would be hit if Sydney toll regimes change: Constance

The M8 tunnel opened to motorists last July as part of the second stage of WestConnex.

Political pressure is mounting on the government and Transport Minister Andrew Constance over stark discrepancies in tolls across Sydney’s motorways and higher-than-inflation increases on some.

Queensland arrivals in NSW asked to be vigilant after COVID-19 case in Brisbane

NSW Health has issued a public health alert after Queensland recorded a locally acquired case of COVID-19 in Brisbane.

Anyone who went to a “close contact venue” in Queensland visited by the positive COVID-19 case, a 26-year-old landscaper, is prohibited from entering NSW.

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NSW floods

‘It was harrowing’: Sam’s great escape from a sinking deathtrap

Santo Celi was rescued from his car as floodwaters swept it away in Wisemans Ferry.

A pensioner was moments from death as his car was swallowed by floodwater - until someone heard his cries in the darkness.

‘JobKeeper cliff’: Sydney braces to lose 30,000 jobs as subsidy scheme ends

Anthea Hammon, who runs Scenic World in Katoomba, and David Hammon, who runs Sydney Harbour Bridgeclimb will be making a number of their staff redundant with JobKeeper ending.

Job losses are likely to be concentrated among small and medium firms in sectors still affected by pandemic disruptions including tourism, hospitality and arts and entertainment.

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NRL 2021

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Rabbitohs 26 Roosters 16

Keary suffers season-ending injury in horror night for Roosters

Souths won against a Sydney Roosters team who have lost Luke Keary for the season due to a knee injury.

St George Illawarra’s Cody Ramsey celebrates with Corey Norman after a try by Ramsey.
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How low can Manly go? Dragons pile pain on Des’ winless Sea Eagles

Not since 2009 have the Sea Eagles started a season so poorly. They’re almost shoo-ins to equal that record when Penrith arrive in town next week.

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Mosman house that hosted Adele, Justin Bieber sells for $21.5m

Mosman house that hosted Adele, Justin Bieber sells for $21.5m

Former model-turn-developer Cameron MacDonald sells his Mosman prize. Elsewhere, Angus Harris buys $8.1m knockdown-rebuild on Chinamans Beach.

These owners turned a brick-veneer cottage into a grand contemporary home

These owners turned a brick-veneer cottage into a grand contemporary home

If, like so many of us, you’ve heard one too many builder horror stories, then it’s time to sit back and enjoy this success story which is now on the market.

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Match report

Keary suffers season-ending injury in horror night for Roosters

Souths won 26-16 against a Sydney Roosters team who have lost Luke Keary for the season due to a knee injury.

Australian Liz Mills has worked wonders with the Kenyan men’s basketball team.

Tale of two coaching styles serves as lesson to us all

The crisis-torn Hockeyroos’ outgoing coach might have done well to take a leaf out of the book of Sydney’s Liz Mills, who has done a remarkable job uniting the Kenyan men’s basketball team.

Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons

Columnist and author

St George Illawarra’s Cody Ramsey celebrates with Corey Norman after a try by Ramsey.
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Match report

How low can Manly go? Dragons pile pain on Des’ winless Sea Eagles

Not since 2009 have the Sea Eagles started a season so poorly. They’re almost shoo-ins to equal that record when Penrith arrive in town next week.

Mitchell Pearce will undergo thumb surgery on Wednesday.
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NRL 2021

In the name of the father: The burden Mitchell Pearce has carried

The Knights halfback on Sunday celebrates his 300th match in the NRL. It’s a miracle he got this far.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster

Chief Sports Writer

Lance Franklin.

A quarter-century after Ablett, can Buddy Franklin get to 1000 goals?

It has been 25 years since Gary Ablett became the fifth player to join the most exclusive of clubs. If Lance Franklin can’t get there, we may never see it happen again.

Andy Muirhead celebrates a Brumbies try against the Force on Friday night.
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Match report

Brumbies flog Force to keep pressure on ladder-leading Reds

The Brumbies had their fair share of doubters after falling to the Reds in the match of the season a fortnight ago. They responded by flogging the Force in front of their home fans.

Anthony Mundine, Mitchell Pearce, Tiger Woods and Lance Franklin.
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Scandal

The many sorry states of the sporting apology

Training in apologising is becoming as essential to the sportsperson’s kit as a good diet and stretching.

Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Knox

Journalist, author and columnist

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