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It’s a thriving business hub. Now it’s rezoned for housing. Can this Sydney suburb really take both?

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It seemed simple enough: build mass housing between two Metro stations in a suburban business district full of jobs.

Has Sydney’s property market just reached a tipping point?

Several economists predict property prices to keep rising, but one has broken ranks with a warning on the outlook.

Wreckage found in plane crash search

Stephen Gale, a pilot, engineer and inventor, and James Rose, a cameraman and drone operator, are feared dead after the plane crash.

Spira will fight an assault charge at a hearing next year.
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Troubled Sydney entrepreneur ‘choked woman in rage-fuelled assault’

Andrew Spira, who is related to ABC chair Ita Buttrose, allegedly attacked a woman in the months before a drug-induced attempt to fraudulently flee the country.

Super yacht worker ‘kidnapped woman from Bondi Icebergs’

Ethan Davis has been granted bail on conditions including home detention and a $1 million surety.

Ethan Davis, who has been granted $1 million bail, is accused of forcing the woman into his car outside the club as she yelled for help from passers-by.

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Nothing is more than $20 at Mami’s (and you can BYO)

The birria tacos with consome.

The family-friendly Mexican eatery is fighting the cost of living but not cutting corners. Get excellent $6 tacos and hefty burritos from $10.

Best Black Friday Deals: Dyson, PlayStation and Bed Threads

Black Friday sales have started early. Here are this year’s best deals.

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken rice paper rolls – plus the secret sauce that makes everything taste amazing

Get hands-on with this light, fresh meal or snack, perfect for those hot summer days when you don’t want to crank up the oven.

The wrangling in Washington highlights how difficult it will be for the US to develop any consensus plan for dealing with its expanding deficits and debt.

Chinese giants lose billions as Biden inflicts pain

The latest US tech crackdown is threatening China’s artificial intelligence capabilities, and hurting some of its biggest companies.

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Stephen Bartholomeusz

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Hundreds of Calabrian mafiosi jailed in Italy’s biggest trial this century

Officials listen as judges read the verdicts of a maxi-trial of hundreds of people accused of membership in Italy’s ’Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate.

Businessmen and a former member of the Italian secret services were also convicted, after prosecutors asked for prison sentences totalling 4744 years.

Signs of Hamas at Al Shifa hospital but Israel’s promised command centre remains elusive

What Israel finds – or fails to find – could play a large part in its efforts to rally international support for its war against Hamas.

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SBW slams Jones over Japan links as McLennan ‘appalled’ by report

Sonny Bill Williams and Eddie Jones

Sonny Bill Williams has questioned Eddie Jones’ character and applauded Rugby Australia for moving on chairman Hamish McLennan.

After World Cup win, Cummins’ men join the all-time greats

Was Australia’s World Cup win behind enemy lines the finest ODI performance of them all?

By winning a World Cup in India, the hardest place to do it, Australia have now achieved something the greats of old never did.

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Messi jersey from Socceroos match among haul tipped to fetch $15m

The world record for sporting memorabilia is expected to be threatened when a collection of shirts worn by the Argentinian icon in Qatar goes under the hammer in New York.

Kotor, Montenegro.

I had a medical emergency overseas, but there was an upside to it

I wasn’t all that happy when I bit into a crouton and broke a tooth only hours into a European cruise.

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Lee Tulloch

Travel columnist

New Aussie movie puts a twist on the classic Christmas comedy

Thea Raveneau is the star of new Australian comedy A Savage Christmas.

A Savage Christmas stars newcomer Thea Raveneau as a woman returning home to discover her family is more messed up than she ever knew.

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‘Extremely sorry’: The Iconic finds a further $201,000 in underpayments

The online fashion retailer, which uncovered more than $1 million in underpayments last year, has slashed more than 100 jobs and has never turned a profit in Australia.

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ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Video released by Israel appears to show gunmen in Al-Shifa Hospital.

Israel says soldier executed, foreign hostages held at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital

The Israeli military also published video of what it described as a tunnel, running 55 metres in length and dug by Palestinians 10 metres under the Shifa compound.

Palestinian rescuers evacuate an injured woman that was found under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis refugee camp,.

UN team tours Al Shifa ‘death zone’ after hospital evacuated by Israeli soldiers

The mass departure was portrayed by Israel as voluntary, but described by some of those leaving as a forced exodus “at gunpoint”.

Sydney

Daniel Keneally pictured with his mother Kristina Keneally.

Kristina Keneally’s police officer son found guilty of false evidence

The son of the former NSW premier and senator has been convicted of fabricating evidence that wrongfully put a man in prison.

Why heritage advisers are again rejecting the $11b Central Station revamp

The proposed Central Station redevelopment.

The government wants to build more than a dozen office towers next to Central Station. Heritage advisers question whether anyone will want to work in them.

White Ribbon goes silent after national director’s resignation

'If your reputation is under attack, it's hard to get people to donate.'

White Ribbon’s national director Allan Ball quietly resigned last month but the embattled charity doesn’t want to talk about it.

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Legal threat over racing boss’ tenure

Russell Balding is set to spend a record 14 years as chair of Racing NSW.

The Minns government has been warned it faces a legal challenge if it pushes ahead with extraordinary new laws to give Russell Balding an unprecedented 14 years on the Racing NSW board.

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$800 for three minutes: Workers’ idea to control healthcare costs

Around 80 per cent of health workers believe NSW Health is wasting money, and are particularly concerned about overuse of medical imaging tests.

The powerful Health Services Union is lobbying to strip bulk-billing rights from doctors who charge more than double the Medicare rebate.

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Sonny Bill Williams and Eddie Jones

SBW slams Jones over Japan links as McLennan ‘appalled’ by report

Sonny Bill Williams has questioned Eddie Jones’ character and applauded Rugby Australia for moving on chairman Hamish McLennan.

Was Australia’s World Cup win behind enemy lines the finest ODI performance of them all?

After best World Cup win ever, Cummins’ men join the all-time greats

By winning a World Cup in India, the hardest place to do it, Australia have now achieved something the greats of old never did.

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Lionel Messi reacts to the final whistle at the end of Argentina’s 2-0 win over Mexico.

Messi jersey from Socceroos match among haul tipped to fetch $15m

The world record for sporting memorabilia is expected to be threatened when a collection of shirts worn by the Argentinian icon in Qatar goes under the hammer in New York.

Pat Cummins with the spoils of World Cup victory.

Quick bowler, fast learner: Pat Cummins delivers a captaincy masterclass

Pat Cummins has proven himself a leader for all occasions and all teammates, and he’s only getting better in the job.

Socceroos coach Graham Arnold talks to his team from the sideline in Melbourne.

‘Constant anxiety’: Palestine struggle to keep focus before Socceroos tie

Palestine’s coach says his players “are not in the right frame of mind” for World Cup qualifiers but will do their best to focus during their World Cup qualifier against Australia.

Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper who is now playing for Australia 7s team Rugby Australia at Moore Park, Monday 20th of November 2023.

Dual World Cup winner’s warning to Hooper before sevens switch

Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper is taking his first steps in rugby sevens, a sport he has only played once before.

NRL star Joseph Suaalii will switch to rugby in 2025.

Centralisation, a coach … and Suaalii: What’s on new chairman’s to-do list?

Daniel Herbert has outlined his vision for the struggling code following the ousting of Hamish McLennan.

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