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Firefighters from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, RFS and Fire & Rescue NSW conducting hazard-reduction burning in Blackheath during last week.
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NSW Rural Fire Service

Rural Fire Service volunteer to give bullying report to MPs

Complaints about bullying, harassment and other misconduct within the RFS will be presented to Emergency Services Minister David Elliott and three other MPs this week.

  • by Peter Hannam
Schools will be asked to meet HSC results targets
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HSC, NAPLAN targets for every school, but principals warn of perverse outcomes

  • by Jordan Baker
The $225 million Arthur Phillip High School in Parramatta opened last year.
Education

‘Up and not out’: Sydney to get more vertical schools in highly populated areas

  • by Matt O'Sullivan and Megan Gorrey
Scarlett Kimber (L), Manuel Villasmil, Zoe Kasinathan and Joshua Bencsik wear new uniforms that are both gender-neutral and sustainable at Hunters Hill High School on 28 April, 2021. Photo: Brook Mitchell
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High school

‘Kids can be comfortable without judgement’: The schools adopting gender-neutral uniforms

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘The last brave thing that happened’: How the injecting room led the way on drug reform

  • by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Politics

Greens MP David Shoebridge during a press conference after the handing down of the Upper House Committee report into state insurer icare. Sydney, NSW. 30th April, 2021. Photo: Kate Geraghty
icare investigation

Years of grief caused by icare ‘could have been avoided’: former judge

The country’s biggest workers’ compensation scheme suffered from a failure of governance, sloppy execution and difficulties in getting injured workers access to their entitled benefits.

  • by Lucy Cormack and Tom Rabe
NSW Labor finance spokesperson Daniel Mookhey (left) and NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge (right) read the Upper House Committee report into state insurer icare.
icare investigation

‘Manifold unhappy consequences’: Damning reports into troubled insurer icare

The country’s biggest workers’ compensation scheme suffered from a failure of governance, sloppy execution and difficulties in getting injured workers access to their entitled benefits.

  • by Lucy Cormack and Tom Rabe
The NSW Ambulance network was inundated on Monday, with 400 calls in two hours.
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Paramedic warning: Ambulance network at risk of breaking point ‘within days’

  • by Lucy Cormack
Don’t rush? Premier Gladys Berejiklian received her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March.
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Coronavirus pandemic

Vaccine-wary citizens threaten NSW’s success

  • by Alexandra Smith
Pru Goward said it was a "very difficult decision" to leave politics.
Workplace culture

‘Brutal’ review exposes NSW ministerial office failings

  • by Alexandra Smith

Crime & Courts

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Education

Schools will be asked to meet HSC results targets
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Education

HSC, NAPLAN targets for every school, but principals warn of perverse outcomes

  • by Jordan Baker
Education

‘Up and not out’: Sydney to get more vertical schools in highly populated areas

  • by Matt O'Sullivan and Megan Gorrey
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Education

St Paul’s, once known for its sexist culture, considers enrolling women

  • by Jordan Baker

Health

Doctors have threatened to resign en masse from Denilliquin Hospital.
Hospitals in crisis

Alarm over NSW hospital where newborns ‘are seen by tea ladies’ instead of nurses

  • by Carrie Fellner
Coronavirus pandemic

Evidence doesn’t link two NSW blood clot deaths to AstraZeneca shots: TGA

  • by Daniella White and Mary Ward
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Ambulance

All paramedics on deck: When Sydney’s ambulance network hit ‘status three’ mode

  • by Lucy Cormack

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