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Boy, 16, charged with murder, riot police out in force, after Doonside stabbing
Police hope to make more arrests on Saturday following the stabbing death of one teenager and the serious injury of another.
Qantas’ Perth to London route changed to avoid Iranian airspace
The change in flight path is due to fears Iran is planning an imminent attack on Israel.
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Crime
Two bodies discovered in shipping container in Central West
Police are investigating after two bodies were found in a shipping container in a small town in the state’s Central West on Saturday.
Family pools resources to buy Concord knockdown for $3.85 million
The buyers plan to live side-by-side, and were not the only ones eyeing the block for its duplex potential.
Exclusive
Title Deeds
Ex-garbo went from renter to owner of $208m prestige property portfolio in four years
He already owned two neighbouring houses in Double Bay, but what could be even better? Adding a third.
Opinion
Property development
Hate property developers? It’s high time you stopped
Tony Richards
Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Opinion
Political leadership
Albanese has a grand plan for your future, and he’ll dare Dutton to block it
Australian companies welcomed Albanese’s Made in Australia policy this week, but the whole concept is pregnant with failure.
Peter Hartcher
Political and international editor
Chalmers attempts to escape Keating’s shadow
The treasurer will hand down his third budget in just over a month. Having Paul Keating as an idol is starting to weigh on him.
Morrison farewells Cook, backs Simon Kennedy as successor
Labor decided not to run in Saturday’s byelection, so the Liberal candidate faces five minor party and independent opponents and is expected to win the prized southern Sydney seat.
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US Masters
Australia’s Davis, Smith surge into Masters mix as Tiger breaks another record
Australians Cam Davis and Cameron Smith avoided the carnage at Augusta, as Tiger Woods added to his status as a golfing colossus.
Opinion
Concussion crisis
Attack me if you will, James Graham, but I stand by work on concussion debate
While some people’s views don’t change, thankfully sporting bodies acting on this important matter.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Analysis
Casinos
Four ways the cards could fall for Star Sydney
Star Sydney’s current and former executives are about to be hauled before Adam Bell, SC, for a second time in 18 months – and the stakes are high.
Biden wipes away another $11b in student debt
Millions of Americans still owe their undergraduate and graduate loans, even though they borrowed only about $US5000 initially.
Former US ambassador, a double agent for Cuba, jailed for 15 years
Manuel Rocha incriminated himself in a series of secretly recorded video conversations with “Miguel”, an FBI agent posing as a Cuban spy.
Opinion
Retirement living
How to live better now we’re living longer
It’s likely we’ll all live much longer, and we want those years to be good years. Here’s how to make that happen.
Bec Wilson
Money contributor
First KISS, next Taylor Swift? Meet the unlikely band opening for the stars
A group of young Central Australian musicians want to inspire the youth of Alice Springs, currently under curfew until Tuesday.
Opinion
Parenting
Does banning my child from wearing ‘merch’ make me a bad parent?
My two-year-old has learnt the art of pester power, but I’m digging in my heels, even if it means going up against The Wiggles.
Melissa Singer
National fashion editor
NRL 2024
Exclusive
Zac Lomax set to join Parramatta Eels on four-year, $2.6 million deal
Lomax’s management and the Parramatta Eels are finalising the terms of the deal, which is expected to be worth $2.6 million over the four years of the contract.
Cruel blow rubs salt in wounds: Four things learnt from Battle of Brisbane
A fruitless chase has ultimately cost the Dolphins their most electric talent, while one man proved himself to be a future captain.
Sydney
‘We could have done better’: STC on Palestinian protest furore
The new chair said the company did not support individual statements being made at curtain calls as it flagged a smaller season for 2025.
Karaoke kid kicked out: Lehrmann ‘evicted’ from Sydney house
The avowed party animal has been given his marching orders from the $4.1 million North Sydney home where he had been staying before complaints from neighbours.
Charles Waterstreet sexually harassed trio of women, tribunal finds
Former barrister showed law student a sex toy during a job interview and played a pornographic film in front of a researcher, a tribunal found.
Exclusive
Development
Council wanted to save this field from being turned into townhouses. It just lost
T.G. Millner Field in Sydney’s northern suburbs was the centre of a years-long campaign for green space in the area.
Palm Beach residents call in lawyers over The Joey’s opening hours stoush
Special counsel Gary Green confirmed he was acting for concerned residents as Northern Beaches Council reviews its decision to block The Joey from trading in the evening.
WEEKEND READS
‘My Errol Flynn’: How Ethne fell in love with a dead serviceman
Diaries and love letters scribbled in cursive by soldiers at the front can be difficult to decipher. To the rescue: this 91-year-old – and others like her.
Sitting down in Singapore to the bizarro world of lab-grown meat
For a few hundred bucks a head, Singapore diners will get an exclusive seven-course menu featuring cultivated meat concocted in Australia.
Politics
Doctors fear Medicare reforms could ‘reproduce failures’ of UK health system
There are early signs of pushback as the government probes changes that would give pharmacists, nurses and others greater authority to prescribe medicines or make referrals.
Business
Inside backlash facing nation’s biggest energy company
Woodside shareholders are about to decide if the company is doing enough to diversify revenue away from fossil fuels as warnings intensify about emissions heating the planet.
Opinion
Competition
Why the crackdown on ‘killer’ deals is no silver bullet
Clancy Yeates
Deputy business editor
World
Psychedelics and trauma: How one survivor of festival terror attack ‘felt no fear’
For a group of Israeli researchers, the attack on the music festival has created a rare opportunity to study the intersection of trauma and psychedelics.
Opinion
Trump is Bible bashing. Even the religious faithful are about to be shocked
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
Corrupt? No. Acceptable behaviour for an MP? Also no
Alexandra Smith
State Political Editor
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Exclusive
Title Deeds
Ex-garbo went from renter to owner of $208m prestige property portfolio in four years
He already owned two neighbouring houses in Double Bay, but what could be even better? Adding a third.
Fourteen of our favourite homes in NSW for sale right now
Looking for your next home within NSW? From Byron Bay to Milson’s point, we’ve got you covered.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Love thy neighbour? What to do when you can’t stand who’s next door
Being woken up at 4am? Or perhaps Mr and Mrs Nosy are constantly complaining about you? We’ve got you covered.
Culture
Let’s face it, when it comes to perfection, we’re unhinged
Teens are buying retinol and an actress’ movable forehead stops me in my tracks.
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‘The knife went straight into my chest’: The Aussie called Tyson who was born to fight
Tyson Pedro has been fighting all of his life. And now the UFC star believes he can go all the way to the top after making the switch to boxing.
Comeback kid breathes new life into Tahs with fairytale finish
After five straight defeats, the Waratahs needed a hero, and after two years out of Super Rugby due to serious knee injuries, five-eighth Will Harrison stepped up.
It’s now or never for Jason Demetriou. But how did it get to this?
South Sydney chairman Nick Pappas says the coach will be given time – if he can get his team to lift. But have the Rabbitohs stopped playing for him?
Updated
US Masters
Australia’s Davis, Smith surge into Masters mix as Tiger breaks another record
Australians Cam Davis and Cameron Smith avoided the carnage at Augusta, as Tiger Woods added to his status as a golfing colossus.
Analysis
Doping
The running debate on doping that’s lasted four decades
It’s obscene that we know everything about the East German doping machine, yet we’re still talking about how to recognise that fact and offer redress all these years later.
Opinion
Concussion crisis
Attack me if you will, James Graham, but I stand by work on concussion debate
While some people’s views don’t change, thankfully sporting bodies acting on this seriously important matter.
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Calm after the storm: Super Netball returns after tumultuous off-season
The Super Netball season kicks off on Saturday, starting with the Giants hosting the Fever. Here’s everything you need to know about the prospects for the Swifts and Giants.
Have Your Say
South Africa will be back if they can’t make Europe pay off
Move to Europe and the cash will flow, they said. Well, it hasn’t for South African teams just yet. If it doesn’t, they might be back in Super Rugby given the extraordinary cost of keeping up with the giants of European rugby.
Paul Cully
Rugby columnist
