Exclusive: Prominent Japanese politicians have labelled the country’s sole custody system an embarrassment and appealed to Australia to raise the issue publicly in Japan
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Exclusive: Sydney lawyer Sevag Chalabian has been sentenced to 12 years’ jail over washing $24 million in blackmail money linked to the Plutus Payroll scam
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‘That’s what you get for kickbacks’: $60,000 in gift bags allegedly delivered to council employee
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Griffin to reapply for job as Dragons set to begin interviewing for 2024 coach
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The verdict is in from voters about Perrottet’s future fund for children
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Plutus Payroll verdict: Fifth co-accused found guilty of $105 million tax fraud conspiracy
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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is holding a press conference in Camden in the final week of the state election campaign.
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Reserve Bank puts interest rate pause on its April agenda
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NSW Labor leader Chris Minns is holding a press conference at Warragamba Dam to discuss Sydney Water and Labor’s plan for renters.
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On the home stretch to polling day, both parties continue their final push to secure votes at the March 25 state election. Follow along with the campaign trail with our live blog
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We have everything we need to fix the climate crisis. But we need to do it now: IPCC
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In the deserts of Somalia, a tragedy is unfolding. Drought claimed the lives of an estimated 43,000 people last year – half of them children. Another 18,000 people may be dead by July. Humanitarian officials say the world is looking the other way
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Special report: Sarah is the only Australian parent known to have won the parental abduction race in Japan. "It was either that or have that done to me," she says
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Bob Johnston, the Reserve Bank governor pivotal to the floating of the Australian dollar and deregulating the banking system, has died at the age of 98
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The federal government has rejected an opposition push to create a high-powered parliamentary committee to scrutinise the implementation of the AUKUS security pact
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Analysis: Labor leader Chris Minns is not bypassing any chance to peddle his central campaign pitch: that Premier Dominic Perrottet will sell off the last of the state’s public assets, specifically Sydney Water. What has Perrottet actually said?
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Former SAS soldier charged with Afghanistan war crime
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War crimes investigator tapped to lead first federal corruption watchdog
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Daniel Mookhey is holding a doorstop to comment on the 2023 Election Budget Impact Statements.
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Matt Kean is holding a press conference with a Parliamentary Budget Office update.
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Woman had ‘significant injury’ after alleged sexual assault by Hayne
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Perrottet claws back ground in tight contest, but Labor tipped to return to power
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New Manly ferry suffers another steering failure on Sydney Harbour
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Chris Minns will discuss ramping and elective surgery waiting lists.
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Exclusive: Doctors will be able to receive an official “endorsement in cosmetic surgery” from the Medical Board of Australia despite not undertaking the training that would make them proper surgeons
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Violence towards principals at the hands of students and parents has reached its highest level on record, a survey of hundreds of school leaders has found
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A crab that finds cunning disguises, a chest-bursting parasitic wasp and an aquatic plant that grows its own floaties are among more than 600 native plants and animals discovered in the past year
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A major barrier preventing most gay and bisexual men from donating life-saving blood plasma could soon be removed as Australia’s medical regulator considers scrapping the sexual activity criteria for potential donors
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Australia have needed just 11 overs to polish off the 118 runs needed to beat India in the second one-day international
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Australian parents whose Japanese former spouses have abducted their children are demanding urgent action from both governments as years pass without any contact
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Man dies in hazard reduction burn on his rural NSW property
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A turf war has erupted over a local council replacing grass with a synthetic sporting field on Sydney’s upper north shore
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A man has drowned at a NSW beach, as police and emergency services urge people to take greater precautions amid a heatwave
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Exclusive: The outgoing ambassador to the US reveals if Joe Biden can run again and how Boris Johnson was his most amusing, yet hardest-to-handle dinner guest
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Joey Manu will miss one game for a high shot on Isaiah Tass, Fletcher Baker has avoided suspension for a similar hit and two Souths stars were fined
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A truck crashed through part of a house and was partly hanging over a 10-metre cliff at Caringbah South, but no one was seriously injured
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People are leaving NSW for other states at a higher rate than before the COVID-19 pandemic as economic pressures bite
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The UK and NZ governments are banning TikTok from government phones, but the Australian government is waiting for the result of a review into social media security
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