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Investigation
Organised crime
Instagone: how a social media post may help undo one of the world’s most wanted criminals
Authorities have been hunting Hakan Ayik for more than a decade. Now for the first time we have uncovered his life of luxury lived in the open on the border between east and west.
‘No evidence’ family caught COVID-19 in NSW as investigation continues
Health authorities are yet to determine how a Victorian family who holidayed in NSW contracted a strain not linked to any other local case.
Opinion
Aged care
No care, no responsibility: The Morrison government’s stark pandemic failures
The federal government has some clear responsibilities in dealing with the pandemic. Its lapses in aged care homes are plain to see, but who is accountable?
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Fauci calls on China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers
The US infectious disease expert said the medical records of nine people might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged from a lab.
Exclusive
Labor in turmoil
‘Stop the toll mania’: Minns makes first pitch to win back voters
New NSW Labor leader Chris Minns will spend the weekend working on the shadow cabinet he will take to the election.
‘We were preparing for the worst’: New vaccine hope for pregnant women
Hanako Stump was familiar with the incessant hum of warnings that accompany pregnancy. But, like most women, she had little – if any – awareness about CMV.
Exclusive
Property market
Millionaires’ woe: $1m-plus price tags on the rise for a piece of Sydney
A four-fold rise in homes selling for at least seven figures in Sydney in the past decade and a three-fold increase in Melbourne is prompting warnings about the nation’s major cities.
Facebook suspends Trump for two years, citing safety risk
In a written response, Trump called Facebook’s decision and insult and said “our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!”
Exclusive
Education
All Sydney students to have guaranteed access to a co-ed high school
Families in Sydney’s single-sex public school catchments have been lobbying for co-ed alternatives, and their campaign has succeeded.
Wests Tigers 26 Panthers 6
Match report
Fans unload on Cleary as Tigers end depleted Panthers’ unbeaten run
Table-toppers Penrith finally crashed to their first loss of the year – and raucous Tigers fans took great delight in rubbing it into Ivan Cleary.
Player released from custody after French Open match-fixing allegations
The Russian was released a day after being arrested at the French Open over match-fixing allegations related to last year’s tournament.
Festival of the frock brings out Sydney’s social tribes
Faster than a speeding Boeing, former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop darted across the Nullarbor to claim her front-row position at Australian Fashion Week.
Opinion
Parenting
No regrets: Why you should have children as soon as you can
Yes, we lose control of our lives when we have children, but that’s not everything.
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
Need cheering up? Here’s some comfort culture to binge on
For those enduring lockdown, there’s a swathe of pop culture pickings to while away the days. And for the rest of us, well who wants to go outside right now anyway?
NRL 2021
The Fitz Files
There can be no horsing around on concussion, Joey
Fitzgibbon finds right-hand man for Sharks coaching team
The incoming Sharks coach has landed a couple of big signings, and now he’s made a huge call on who he wants to help him lead Cronulla back to the top next year.
How the Panthers – and Usher – have infected NSW for Origin I
NSW coach Brad Fittler has placed enormous trust in a group of young Penrith players for Origin I. Are they up to it?
Sydney
MacGill’s restaurant closed over rent dispute and stress after kidnapping
The restaurant run by former cricketer Stuart MacGill has closed its doors following the “personal stress” of his kidnapping.
Sydney priest, police officer charged with possessing child abuse material
Father Joseph Kolodziej, the parish priest at All Hallows Catholic Parish Five Dock, was asked to step down from his public role this week.
Ex-ALP official and Catholic priest jailed for 17 years over child abuse tourism
A former NSW Labor Party official and priest who abused boys on “abhorrent” child sex tourism trips in south-east Asia has been jailed for 17 years.
Snow good: Perisher resort now open a week early in NSW
Skiers and boarders are making the most of early falls with Perisher starting its lifts a week before the Queen’s birthday long weekend.
Sydney records coldest day in five years
Sydney has recorded its coldest day in five years with cloudy and wet conditions keeping temperatures below 14 degrees. The temperature didn’t get above 13.4 at Observatory Hill in the CBD which is the lowest maximum since June 2016.
WEEKEND READS
True brew: the beer tapping into the booze-free boom
For a long time everyone agreed: low-alcohol beer tasted terrible. But rising sales are turning that assumption on its head – and riding the new sobriety movement in the process.
The trials and tribulations of opening a restaurant mid-pandemic
It was a brilliant if unlikely pairing – Melbourne’s hip eatery king Chris Lucas teaming up with Sydney’s top degustation duo Martin Benn and Vicki Wild to create a new restaurant they hoped would change the face of dining. Then came COVID-19.
Politics
Exclusive
Indigenous
‘More work to be done’: Betty Mabo says Indigenous Voice to Parliament is next step
Eddie Mabo’s daughter Betty believes an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is the next step in achieving reconciliation.
Business
The calamitous world of King Clive Palmer
The billionaire Queensland mining magnate, serial litigant and political aspirant is back in the media spotlight. But what is driving him?
Opinion
Cyber warfare
Meat giant JBS’ cyber woes lay bare a dangerous reality
Adele Ferguson
Investigative journalist and columnist
World
Detained Australian, Suu Kyi, to face court ‘unrepresented’
Australian Sean Turnell and deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi will face court this month, with lawyers concerned no legal representation will mean no transparency with the hearing.
Opinion
No regrets: Why you should have children as soon as you can
Jenna Price
Columnist and academic
Redfern is already ruined, but spare it student quarantine
Elizabeth Farrelly
Columnist, author, architecture critic and essayist
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Property bydomain
Dancing With the Stars judge Kym Johnson snaps up $13m Sydney pad
The professional dancer turned TV judge looks to be joining the throng of returning Hollywood expats, buying a beachfront property in Rose Bay.
'Slammed shut': Home ownership out of reach for many without family help
House prices are heading to a point where the only way people will be able to get into the market is with help from family who are already in, experts say.
Life & Culture
Exclusive
Fashion Week
‘Unimaginable’: Bianca Spender on losing her mother, Carla Zampatti
The designer has spoken about her grief, and why she chose to make a film to respond to the outpouring of emotion following her mother’s death nine weeks ago.
Sport
Origin has always been the Wild West. But then Sheriff V’landys rode into town
Referees used to stay out of the way in State of Origin. But with the NRL’s crackdown in full swing, the Herald asked experts to review the 2020 decider and estimate how many players would have been marched under the new rules.
Meet the Australian Olympian still working on the COVID front line
The rescheduled Tokyo Olympics are six weeks away, but a Melbourne doctor hasn’t stopped fighting the pandemic – even skipping crucial training camps to help her community.
Wests Tigers 26 Panthers 6
Match report
Fans unload on Cleary as Tigers end depleted Panthers’ unbeaten run
Table-toppers Penrith finally crashed to their first loss of the year – and raucous Tigers fans took great delight in rubbing it into the club’s former coach Ivan Cleary.
How the Panthers – and Usher – have infected NSW for Origin I
NSW coach Brad Fittler has placed enormous trust in a group of young Penrith players for Origin I. Are they up to it?
Opinion
French Open
Focus on dance between press and stars misses point of Naomi’s saga
Unlike many reporters, I don’t think Naomi Osaka ought to be compelled to give a press conference after losing a tennis match. But that’s not the real issue here.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
How Harry and that Corso race convinced Turbo to dry up – and take off
Tom Trbojevic has not touched a drop of alcohol since his famous foot race with ‘Harry’ and it has helped the NSW star strike a rich vein of form.
V’landys admits ‘mistake’ of not consulting players before crackdown
ARLC chairman Peter V’landys has vowed to bring NRL players into the fold in future, admitting the controversial crackdown on high contact could have been better managed.
Have Your Say
There can be no horsing around on concussion, Joey
Peter V’landys gets it. Phil Gould does not. And I reckon you are a work in progress, Andrew Johns.
