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Pollution
Minns won’t ask for please explain from Sydney Water on ‘forever chemicals’
The NSW government wants federal authorities to expedite a review of PFAS levels in our water.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Pollution
Sydney Water threatened with lawsuit over cancer-linked chemicals in drinking water
Blue Mountains residents have expressed shock and outrage after the closure of a dam which feeds into the water supply of 50,000 people.
- by Carrie Fellner
Blue Mountains dam shut after discovery of cancer-linked forever chemicals
Forever chemicals had been found at high levels in the dam which feeds into the drinking water supply to around 41,000 residents. Now authorities have stepped in.
- by Carrie Fellner
Parliamentary inquiry called into dangers of ‘forever chemicals’
For years, cancer-linked substances have contaminated Australian homes, products and drinking water. Now a new inquiry is promising answers.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Water
‘Forever chemicals’ across Sydney’s drinking water catchment
PFAS have been detected in the catchment area at levels within Australia’s drinking water guidelines but above US safety thresholds. They’re even in wildlife such as platypuses.
- by Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner
War of the lilly pillies: Mosman neighbours don’t hedge bets in tree row
Two north shore families called in silks to argue the finer points of law concerning an offending hedge - and whether the law should be applied in the present or past tense.
- by Carrie Fellner
Teenager charged with murder after man dies in Sydney stabbing
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of a man in his 30s who was allegedly stabbed to death in Sydney’s inner west.
- by Carrie Fellner and Ben Cubby
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City life
An ‘embarrassment’ to Sydneysiders: Our harbour junkyard revealed
A new coalition is pushing to rid the harbour of rotting junk and pollution for the enjoyment of future generations.
- by Carrie Fellner
A white canvas shoe holds key to Cecilia Devine’s mysterious death
The family of Devine, however, claim early mistakes by NSW Police have hampered the investigation into a possible murder in the Blue Mountains.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Sydney emergency
Colleagues distraught at drowning of ‘kind-hearted soul’
Kaushik Chatterjee’s death has shocked friends and co-workers after he got into strife at a remote Ku-ring-gai beach.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Crime
Police took nearly an hour to respond to triple-zero call while woman lay dying
An investigation has been launched into why it took police nearly an hour to acknowledge a triple-zero call to a house where a woman lay dying.
- by Angus Thomson and Carrie Fellner
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