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Lives torn apart by opioids
NSW

Lives torn apart by prescription drug nightmare

FOR Sally Wilkinson, the call that every parent dreads came on Christmas morning 2016. Expecting to hear from her son, Daniel, who was skiing in Canada with friends, she was delighted when her phone rang. Seconds later, her world came crashing down.

A supplied image obtained Tuesday, July 18, 2017 of raids taken place at the Parklea Correctional Centre. One week after a YouTube video of a Parklea Correctional Centre inmate wielding a knife was discovered, Police have uncovered mobile phones and drugs hidden in toilets, food packages and televisions in the prison. (AAP Images/ CORRECTIVE SERVICES NSW) NO ARCHIVING   --
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Deadly past of new Parklea Prison operator

THE announcement of the contract for Parklea — a facility with well documented issues — comes following a series of reports surrounding ‘uninhabitable conditions, violence, abuse and riots’ at MTC private prisons across the US.

The Coast’s biggest bikie brawls

The Coast’s biggest bikie brawls

THE Gold Coast has long been the backdrop for disputes between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs, but rarely have these arguments spilt into the public sphere. All that changed in 2006 when a violent public confrontation between bikies set plans in motion to have the city’s gangs completely dismantled.

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Art - painting of racehorse Phar Lap.

The day Phar Lap ruled the world

WHEN Australia’s most legendary racehorse was caught behind the field in a cloud of dust in the world’s richest race, things looked grim. But this was Phar Lap and something extraordinary happened.

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Faces of Ice Project

Shock reality of our ice addiction

PAUL Toohey and Gary Ramage travelled 9000km across the country, meeting ice users, doctors and desperate parents to understand our worst-ever drug epidemic. This is the story of the Ice Nation.

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