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Clarissa Bye is a senior journalist at the Daily Telegraph who breaks agenda-setting and investigative yarns. She has several decades’ experience covering both Federal and State politics, features, social affairs, education and medical rounds. She was the youngest Federal Parliament correspondent for The Sun Herald where she was short-listed for a Walkley.

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Rockin’ mad over baggage handler bungle

SOME rockers famously destroy their guitars as part of the show, but for Aussie singer Jon English, a smashing encounter between his guitar and Sydney Airport’s baggage handlers was no crowd-pleaser.

Welcome to $2 trillion Sydney

SYDNEY is on the verge of boasting two trillion dollars’ worth of homes, according to exclusive property data also revealing Western Sydney punching well above its weight.

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Rod Perkins and Therese Siebel with their daughters Sophia, 10, and Charlotte, 11, at Kareela Golf Club, Kareela, Sydney, today. GOLF clubs are trying to entice people back through the doors after declining memberships. A new organisation has taken a different approach at a number of clubs around Sydney by making the courses more family friendly. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Golf memberships are falling below-par

FREE $100 bar tabs, no joining fees and revamped “family friendly” golf courses – Sydney’s golf clubs are desperate for new members – their membership has been hit hard.

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Alan Wood, 88 years old averages 20,000 KM a year in his trusty old 1983 Toyota Landcruiser and travels the continent. He knows how to change tyres and do all the mechanics. He's got a great driving record and thinks the government wants to put the oldies in pokie palaces and not let them drive. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Banning old drivers is ‘offensive stereotyping’

THIRTY-THREE drivers over 70 died on NSW roads last year, but senior citizens have hit back at police suggestions that they ‘get off the road’.

Muslim Captain silenced over Tweets

A SENIOR female Muslim navy officer has had her twitter account shut down after it posted tweets on Islamic terrorism that appear at odds with government policy.

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This home on the corner of Macpherson st and St Thomas st Bronte lost there back yard over night due to heavy rain the land along with kids toys collapsed on Macpherson st not injuring any body, its belived the residents are away on Holidays .pic John Grainger

Flood warnings as rain storms lash NSW

THE big summer wet across NSW is set to continue today, with flood warnings issued for the north and south coasts. In Sydney, a home’s yard collapsed into the street after heavy rain overnight.

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Bill Fang and Yahan Liu, from Taiwan, camping at Kirribilli, today with a front row seat of the celebrations tomorrow night. Picture: Justin Lloyd

The countdown is on…

QUEUES hundreds of metres long have already formed to grab the best spots around the harbour for tonight’s fireworks. As the world awaits midnight, Sydney will once again be the focus of attention as the first major city in the world to ring in the New Year. THE BEST VANTAGE POINTS FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS

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