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More than 3000 people in Australia take their own lives each year.
Opinion
Health

Consultation first step for landmark suicide prevention law

The NSW government is seeking feedback to begin formulating legislation which will see a whole-of-government approach.

  • by The Herald's View
NSW Premier Chris Minns on Wednesday announced that retail trade will be banned on Anzac Day.
Opinion
Anzac Day

Lest we forget what public holidays are for

  • by Mary Ward
The Department of Communities and Justice has failed to meet any of its three core protection responsibilities, the report found.
Child protection

‘Horrifying’: Alarm over NSW’s child protection failures

  • by Amber Schultz
Jarome Luai being rescued from the water last week.
Water safety

For drowning experts, Jarome Luai’s pool rescue was not a ‘good laugh’

  • by Mary Ward
Pub baron Arthur Laundy (centre), with daughter Danielle and her husband Shane Richardson at the Red Lion Hotel in Rozelle.
Pubs

Pub barons call for end to tax slug on drinkers

  • by Andrew Taylor
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Politics

NSW Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson says a suicide prevention act will be introduced to parliament in 2025.
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Mental health

Lawmakers to consider impact of housing, education policy on suicide rates

Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson has promised suicide prevention legislation will be introduced to parliament next year. 

  • by Mary Ward
Housing Minister Rose Jackson says public housing maintenance will be made a priority.
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Public housing

NSW’s new maintenance system will see 750 homes revamped with thousands to follow

The NSW government says it is back in control of the maintenance of the homes it owns.

  • by Alexandra Smith
Work in the finance industry for long enough, and you’ll regularly hear boomers piping up about how high interest rates were back in their day.
Letters

It’s tougher now than in the 1980s

Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun
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Sydney councils

Claims of disappearing documents engulf Sydney’s Game of Thrones council

  • by Max Maddison and Kate McClymont
An iconic photo on the front page in 1999 convinced then premier Bob Carr to hold a drug summit. Two decades later, NSW Labor is holding another one
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Drug reform

Bob Carr held a drug summit 25 years ago. NSW Labor is repeating history

  • by Alexandra Smith

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