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NSW
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Domestic violence
How many more women have to die before we get serious about this epidemic?
The Herald believes two royal commissions are urgently needed: the first a state-based inquiry into laws and resources, the second a national probe examining the underlying causes driving male attitudes towards women.
- The Herald's View
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Development
These maps show the risk of flooding at Rosehill mini-city
Flood risk evaluations of the Rosehill ‘mini-city’ site show what needs to be considered before 25,000 apartments could be built there.
- by Max Maddison
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Domestic violence
Rosie Batty urges NSW royal commission into domestic violence
The murder of 28-year-old Molly Ticehurst has shocked the country and experts say urgent action is needed to stop family violence.
- by Alexandra Smith and James Massola
Anzac Day: Just the therapy Sydney needed to heal a ‘broken heart’
New RSL NSW president Mick Bainbridge says the community needed to come back together again for Anzac Day.
- by Tim Barlass
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Development
The inside story of how Rosehill got on Sydney’s housing map
In a two-week period late last year, the Australian Turf Club went from insisting there was “definitely no plan” to relinquish Rosehill Racecourse to approaching the government with a plan to build 25,000 new homes.
- by Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
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Casinos
Bleak outlook for The Star as nemesis Crown has licence reinstated
Crown Sydney has proven it can clean up its act. But across the city, its arch rival The Star is facing a very different outlook.
- by Alexandra Smith and Amelia McGuire
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State Parliament
New Sydney housing targets rattle advocates and developers
Details about the government’s transport development zones have peak community housing groups as well as developers in agreement.
- by Max Maddison
Opinion
Bondi Junction attack
A love letter to Sydney after a mad moment of hate
The photos of all the Bondi Junction victims and heroes in one single viewing pane are a microcosm of all that you do that’s wonderful.
- by Erin Morra Cordi
Social media companies live by strange standards
Curbing the corrosive effects of social media is not only about enforcing take-down orders but must extend to their other deleterious aspects.
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Crime
Minns launches review after Molly Ticehurst’s death
Just weeks before Ticehurst was found dead in a NSW home, the man accused of her alleged murder was released on bail over a series of allegations of sexual assault against her.
- by Michael McGowan and Perry Duffin
Analysis
Population
Rise of the tombstone suburb: Wealthy Sydney areas where deaths outnumber births
Sydney’s population is booming thanks to migration, but deaths are outnumbering births in a growing share of mainly wealthy suburbs.
- by Matt Wade