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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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A Tesla Model 3 electric car caught fire after it hit debris from a truck in front of it near Goulburn and was well alight when Penrose Rural Fire Brigade arrived. The driver and passenger got out safely. Pic Supplied.,

EV battery fire engulfs Tesla on Hume Hwy

See the spectacular footage of another electric vehicle going up in flames – the same day five cars were destroyed by a battery fire at Mascot. SEE THE FOOTAGE.

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EV battery blaze torches five cars in Sydney Airport car park

Graphic pictures and video have been released showing the intensity of an electric battery blaze that destroyed five cars at a Sydney Airport car park.

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‘Regrettable’: ABC mistake to licence footage to Yes campaign

The much-touted Yes to the Voice flagship commercial featuring John Farnham’s song You’re the Voice has run into controversy by using ABC footage.

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Secondary schools students, without helmets on an e-bike on Oliver St, Freshwater. Picture: Jim O'Rourke

Safety, police concerns over ‘sneaky’ e-bike power boost

A quiet decision made just before the NSW election earlier this year to beef up the power of e-bikes to double has road safety experts up in arms.

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Adam Goodes the 2014 Australian of the Year spokes to voice his support for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in AustraliaÍs constitution at The We Want Recognition event at The Wayside Chapel, Potts Point.

‘Internal cultural problem’: ABC slammed over Indigenous myth

The Institute of Public Affairs has questioned the ABC’s impartiality on the Voice debate in the wake of more corrections over stories airing an urban myth about Aboriginals.

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4/4/18 Cousins (LR) Neil Evers, Clair Jackson and John Rohan at Neil's house in Newport. Picture: Adam Yip / Manly Daily

‘Not Indigenous’ claim erupts as man defends heritage

An advocate for the Voice has rejected claims from an Aboriginal land council that he’s “not Indigenous” – insisting he’s descended from the famous historical colonial-era figure “King Bungaree”.

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MyHeritage DNA united a Sydney grandmother with an unknown brother. Long lost brother and sister Michael and Cathy when they met each other in Sydney late in 2022. . A SYDNEY grandmother who did a DNA test from a family history website has discovered a long lost brother she never knew she had, seven decades later, living in Canada., He’s since flown out to Sydney and reunited with his new sister, who had been an only child and “always wanted a sibling”., The eastern suburbs mother of three and grandmother of seven, Catherine, 76, was trying to find out more about her father when she signed up to MyHeritage and did the simple DNA saliva test.

‘Shocked’: Sydney gran finds long lost brother after DNA twist

A Sydney woman who grew up as a single child of a Holocaust survivor couldn’t believe it when a MyHeritage DNA test revealed a brother she never suspected she had.

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‘Divisive’: Sydney mayor gives free rent to pro-Voice campaign

While the campaigners against the planned Voice to Parliament referendum say they are operating from homes and garages, Sydney Mayor Clover Moore plans to give the Yes campaign free rental space.

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Electricity pylons during dusk evening sky sunset. Energy generic

Surge in complaints over electricity bill shock

Consumers in NSW are running into difficulties with new installs of smart meters, alongside higher electricity bills, it’s been revealed.

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Photograph of a young woman with her mouth taped closed

What next? Unis censor jokes, sarcasm, nicknames on campus

Ninety per cent of universities are now running policies hostile to free speech with sarcasm and nicknaming now identified as bullying, a damning report has found.

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