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Dozens of applicants for leadership positions with Fire and Rescue NSW used AI to complete their applications.
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‘Cheats let through’: Firefighters caught out in AI recruitment bungle

Recruitment of NSW fire station leaders is in turmoil after dozens of candidates were disqualified – then reinstated – after using AI in their applications.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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Matt U’Brien, formerly with NSW Police and Fire and Rescue NSW, his wife Sarah and daughter Lillian, 18, who all gave evidence at a NSW parliament inquiry on Tuesday.

Online surveillance of injured workers ‘relatively common’: insurer

Last week, a parliamentary inquiry heard a surveillance company contracted by Fire and Rescue NSW’s insurer looked through a 15-year-old girl’s social media to investigate her father.

  • Max Maddison
Matt U’Brien, formerly with NSW Police and Fire Rescue NSW, his wife Sarah and daughter Lillian, 18, who all gave evidence at a NSW Parliament inquiry on Tuesday.

Social media profiles of injured worker’s young daughter monitored by private investigations company

An inquiry considering the state government’s controversial workers compensation scheme heard plans to severely curtail injured workers’ access to long-term payments as “barbarism”.

  • Max Maddison
A house in Sydney's northern beaches was destroyed by a fierce blaze on Friday morning.
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Avalon house fire

A house in Sydney's northern beaches was destroyed by a fierce blaze on Friday morning.

Aerial footage shows the roof and floor of the home collapsed.

Grave fears for person missing after fire destroys northern beaches home

Flames have destroyed the house and made it impossible for firefighters to enter the property.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo and Kayla Olaya
The two cars were set ablaze within the front yard of a Granville home, and on the street out front.

‘All I hear is this boom’: Woman recounts moment cars torched outside Sydney home

Shocked residents said they woke to what sounded like fireworks coming from the street. Footage showed the two vehicles engulfed by flames.

  • Josefine Ganko and Emily Kaine
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States are pleading with the federal government to crack down on the importation and sale of dangerously fast e-bikes and e-scooters.

States demand e-bike crackdown amid deaths and fires

Victoria and NSW say dangerously fast e-bikes and e-scooters are being illegally ridden on Australian roads and killing and injuring more people.

  • Angus Delaney
Childcare centre arson at “Play to Learn” centre in Castle Hill.

Police investigate underworld links to childcare arson attacks

A police source said one line of investigation was that the centres at Turramurra and Castle Hills were targeted by organised crime.

  • Perry Duffin, Kate McClymont, Josefine Ganko and Penry Buckley
A childcare centre in Turramurra was targeted in an arson attack overnight.

Arson attack on childcare centre on Sydney’s north shore

A suspicious blaze has left the centre’s staff flummoxed, as police search to understand why it would be targeted.

  • Josefine Ganko
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Manhunt for alleged gangland ‘freelancer’ after inner west restaurant firebombed

An arsonist attacked a restaurant on consecutive nights, using fireworks to ignite the blaze on his second visit.

  • Josefine Ganko

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