Masked men on the run after home invasion, shooting
CCTV footage shows eight men wielding pistols, a shotgun and a machete enter a house where a man was shot in the leg.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Nigel Gladstone
Latest
Two women dead after being swept off rocks at Kurnell
The two women were pulled unconscious from the water but couldn’t be revived after the incident at the notorious coastal strip in Sydney’s south.
- by Nigel Gladstone
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HSC
The maps that expose the state’s great HSC divide
Experts warn that some students are becoming effectively ‘locked out’ of tertiary study.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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Domestic violence
‘I’m not going to stop until she’s dead’: Rising number of men ignore domestic violence orders
A teenage boy found his father holding a brick over his unconscious mother two weeks after his mother had sought the ADVO against her husband.
- by Clare Sibthorpe and Nigel Gladstone
Boy racks up $1047 fine in one day for riding without a helmet
Some children are racking up tens of thousands of dollars in fines before they turn 18, prompting key legal services to call on NSW to scrap fines for minors.
- by Jordan Baker and Nigel Gladstone
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Education
Revealed: Sydney’s most overcrowded primary and high schools
While one public school has hit 2200 students, others are sitting underused with room for hundreds more pupils. Search the full list to see how crowded your school is.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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Education
Sydney private schools harness parent donations for scholarships
A Herald analysis of financial reports from more than 20 schools shows scholarship and bursary budgets have grown to a total value of more than $200 million.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
Investigation
Domestic violence
He called himself The Destroyer and ransacked his partner’s home. Here’s how police took him down
Domestic violence is the biggest challenge facing NSW Police: they get 500 call-outs a day and spend up to 60 per cent of general duties dealing with the cases.
- by Jordan Baker and Nigel Gladstone
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Schools
School students missed more than 9 million days of learning last year. Here’s why
Attendance levels remain below pre-pandemic levels, while a third of public school students are leaving before finishing year 12.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
Breaking
Police
Multiple people killed in Bondi Junction stabbing attack
Six people have died in a stabbing spree at Bondi Junction shopping centre on Saturday afternoon.
- by Sally Rawsthorne, Nigel Gladstone, Perry Duffin, Amber Schultz and Sarah McPhee
Analysis
Housing crisis
How the rental crisis ate its way into the middle class
Renters will prove a political powerhouse at the 2027 election. Will the Minns government have done enough to help them?
- by Max Maddison and Nigel Gladstone