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Breaking
Aviation
Plane circling NSW airport after suspected landing gear failure
A passenger plane is circling the airport attempting to shed fuel after appearing to suffer a landing gear failure.
Breaking
Social media
Elon Musk victory as judge overturns ban on church stabbing video posts
Musk has argued that by blocking the video to all Australians, the watchdog was in effect seeking a global ban outside its jurisdiction.
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Domestic violence
Inside the warped mind of a serial DV offender
Donald Fing said he respects women. But he threatened to kill an ex-partner with an axe and wouldn’t let her use the toilet alone for days.
Rushi was accused of using AI to cheat. It took him weeks to clear his name
Students are being falsely accused of plagiarism as universities turn to imperfect tools to detect the unauthorised use of AI.
Opinion
Trade wars
Joe Biden is ramping up his attack on China
Joe Biden is throwing the kitchen sink at a key part of China’s economy.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
A Trump trial. Raging wars. Protests. Is everything ‘on fire’?
Most Americans say they’re unhappy with the direction of the country. But nearly the same figure say they are generally satisfied with their personal lives.
Opinion
Housing crisis
Unable to crack the housing market, I went looking for cocaine
No, I’m not contemplating becoming a drug dealer, but I will need something close to a lottery win to get me out of the rental rat race.
Millie Muroi
Business Reporter
Luxury home in ‘Mosman of the inner west’ sells for $6.45 million
The high-end house with its own home cinema and underground car park was a mortgagee-in-possession auction.
The alleged phone call at the centre of Chris Dawson’s murder appeal
The convicted killer has claimed his wife called him at Northbridge Baths and told him that she needed “time away”.
Man of green steel: Dan Andrews takes the billionaire career path
What happens when an immovable former premier meets an unstoppable billionaire?
Analysis
Telecommunications
Optus desperately needs a reset. Here’s what comes next
Australia’s second-largest telco is priming for a much-needed reboot after suffering the nation’s worst data breaches and telecommunications outages.
Why Martin Place is set to become Sydney’s hot new go-to hospitality hub
With a new metro station and a flush of new venues set to open in coming months, diners will be flocking to the historic city strip.
How Paris is going to gouge tourists this year
Visitors to the French capital during the European summer will pay more for hotels, meals out, entry to tourist attractions and public transport.
Analysis
NRL 2024
The Tigers are hurtling to the bottom again. This play sums up why Benji Marshall has a huge problem
The best teams constantly talk about attention to detail. One moment in Tamworth on Saturday sums up how far the Tigers are still off the pace after six straight losses.
Updated
Around the clubs
‘I don’t want to sit behind anyone’: Crichton weighs up future after Fifita deal
The Roosters star said the club hadn’t spoken to him about the signing of Titans back-rower David Fifita.
Vladimir Putin removes defence minister in major shake-up of Kremlin security team
Sergei Shoigu is being replaced, but in a way not to suggest seismic changes amid Russia’s protracted war in Ukraine.
NRL 2024
Why Mitchell Moses may have only 80 minutes to prove he can save NSW
The Eels star is not a certain starter for a comeback in Magic Round as Michael Maguire’s headaches deepened with a couple of Roosters stars put on report.
Roosters’ first-half blitz sees them romp to victory over Warriors
The Warriors salvaged some pride with an improved second-half showing, but the damage was already done as the in-form Roosters piled on the points again.
Sydney
Why this top Sydney school has resisted screens in class
While many students are asked to bring their own devices into schools across the state, some are resisting the trend to have iPads or laptops in lessons.
One wave every eight seconds: surfing comes to landlocked Sydney suburb
There was a surge of new surfers during the pandemic and a man-made facility at Sydney Olympic Park could draw even more people to the sport.
Inside Chris Dawson’s murder appeal
The convicted killer has asked the state’s top criminal appeal court to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette Simms, who vanished in 1982.
Exclusive
NSW Votes
Stolen ballot boxes, corrupt officials: The fake information targeting NSW voters
Heard the one about election officials using hidden graphite under their fingernails to change your vote?
Big business has a big problem with Sydney’s tolling shake-up
The big end of town is highly critical of one aspect of an independent review into the city’s patchwork of tolled motorways.
Politics
Chalmers’ Sunday run began at 3.46am. This is his warm-up for the budget
Two days out from Labor’s third federal budget, we were granted behind-the-scenes access to observe Jim Chalmers preparing to hand down what could be his last before the election.
Opinion
Federal budget
Jim Chalmers, the budget and the art of make-believe
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
Business
Exclusive
Workplace
Good money, good vibes: Why Gen Z doesn’t care about work perks
Free lunches, gym memberships and gimmicky thrills are no longer important to young professionals, according to a survey.
World
Jerry Seinfeld’s support for Israel prompts Duke University speech walkout
Figures in robes and caps, some waving Palestinian flags, were seen filing out of crowds of graduates assembled in the North Carolina university’s football stadium.
Opinion
Too often, alcohol and family violence go together. We need to separate them
Kym Valentine
Actor, family violence survivor-advocate
I love my mum, but I try to be the mother she wasn’t
Cheng Lei
Journalist and former detainee
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Property
Young couple beats parents buying ‘tough as nails’ home for kids
First home buyers paid $790,000 for the oversized 1990s brick one-bedroom unit, beating 11 others to the quiet, walkable location.
Sydney suburbs with the most distressed property sales
One in eight home sellers in the hardest-hit pocket of Sydney are motivated to get a deal done urgently as interest rates stay high.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Skinnier, lighter eyebrows are back, but with a modern twist
Bleaching your brows could be an excellent starting point to avoid the ’90s over-plucked look.
Culture
A ‘piping hot portion of salmonella’ sends another MasterChef contestant packing
It’s masks on for the blind cube taste test, followed by an elimination that pushes things to the pink chicken brink.
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NRL 2024
NRL investigating racial abuse towards Mitchell and Walker
The NRL has confirmed they are investigating the allegations of abuse made to the South Sydney duo.
Analysis
NRL 2024
The Tigers are hurtling to the bottom again. This play sums up why Benji Marshall has a huge problem
The best teams constantly talk about attention to detail. One moment in Tamworth on Saturday sums up how far the Tigers are still off the pace after six straight losses.
Updated
Around the clubs
‘I don’t want to sit behind anyone’: Crichton weighs up future after Fifita deal
The Roosters star said the club hadn’t spoken to him about the signing of Titans back-rower David Fifita.
Opinion
Super Rugby
Engine gloom: Injury carnage at Tahs demands answers
The Waratahs started the season with 10 front rowers in their squad. Five months on, they are all injured.
Iain Payten
Senior Sports Reporter
‘Nausea, dizziness, blood’: Djokovic says bottle blow still affecting him after shock loss
The world No.1 was comfortably beaten in the third round of the Italian Open, two days after being struck on the head by a bottle that fell from a fan’s backpack.
Analysis
State of Origin
NSW have a halfback problem. Here are six contenders to replace Cleary
Nathan Cleary will miss the entire State of Origin series and two other main contenders to replace him are injured. Has the halves curse struck the Blues again?
Why Mitchell Moses may have only 80 minutes to prove he can save NSW
The Eels star is not a certain starter for a comeback in Magic Round as Michael Maguire’s headaches deepened with a couple of Roosters stars put on report.
Have Your Say
World Rugby ushers in law changes to speed up game, but have they opened a new loophole?
With the goal of reducing stoppages and making rugby more appealing to fans, new laws and law trials have been announced. But some people aren’t happy.
