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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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In pictures: Alfred delivers wild winds and torrential rain

Alfred has made landfall, unleashing destructive winds and torrential rain. See the images in our gallery below.

OPINIONOpinion

We found the closest $200-a-week two-bedder rental to Sydney ... at Merriwa. It's one of four we found in the state - Merriwa is the closest, left, while Moree was the futherest. And a carpark in the CBD was going for $150. Pictures: Suplied

Rose, I’ve found a two-bedder for $200 — with one big catch

The NSW Housing Minister was slammed for saying there are places in Sydney where “a couple of hundred bucks” gets you a two-bedroom unit rental, so I looked for one. Here’s the sad reality of what I found, writes Debbie Schipp.

NSW

Across the years:Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel, top centre, will be the next big names to grace Qudos Bank Arena against a backdrop of big names who have appeared across the venue's 25 years, including Britney Spears, top left, P!NK, top right, Jiustibn Timberlake, bottom left, Pavarotti, bottom centre and Billy Joel, bottom right. Pictures: Supplied.

Kudos to Qudos: Big hits in pics as arena celebrates 25 years

From Beyonce to Barnesy and Pavarotti to P!NK, after 25 years, 15 million fans and 18,000 shows there’s no time for intermission. Sydney’s biggest indoor arena is looking forward – as well as back as it celebrates the highlights.

OpinionOpinion

The smashed avo at GInger's, in Goodwood . Picture: Dianne Mattsson

Millennials choking on their imaginary smashed avo toast

RBA boss Michele Bullock is well-equipped to deliver assessments on interest rates but when she tells already-broke mortgagors how to save money, it comes off as way out of touch, writes Debbie Schipp.

Opinion

TOPSHOT - Australia's Rachael Gunn, known as Raygun competes in the Women's Breaking dance Round robin of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at La Concorde in Paris, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Je suis Raygun. So why do I have to ‘knock it off’?

I get that Raygun is upset about the pile-on. She’s fragile amid the criticism and questions. But if you perform on a world stage at elite sporting level to be judged, why can’t we have a crack at that performance?

Opinion

The scene outsdoie Lalor Park where three children perished (main picture), and the mass shooting 'flowchart' which inevitably does the rounds of social media with every US mass shooting. Pictures: News Corp/Supplied

The flowchart that’s become the sad template for DV crisis

In the US there is a futile cycle whenever another mass shooting shocks the nation. Sadly, Australia is fast developing its own version of the pathetically impotent approach.

Police & Courts

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA.NewsWire Photos. July 8, 2024.Crime scene at a Labor Park home where it is alleged a father barricaded seven children and his partner inside a burning home in SydneyÃs west early around 1am on Sunday and tried to stop rescuers from coming to save them. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

What we know about inferno that killed three kids at Lalor Park

Three children are dead, four more and a woman are in hospital, and the father who allegedly tried to stop them leaving a burning house is an induced coma as police wait to charge him. Here’s what we know.

Opinion

Mr Manly's legal fight took 10 years of his life and ended up in Australia's highest court. Picture: ThinkStock

What’s a man got to do to be refused bail?

Another alleged DV murder. Another alleged ex out on bail. When do the words “bail fail” actually resonate as more than a headline, a catch phrase, a trigger for promises of inquiries and reviews about how this has happened again?

NSW

Fallout: What’s next for main players in Bruce Lehrmann case

Costs are yet to be decided, but in the end the price isn’t just financial — there’s a toll of careers, lives, reputations friendships, deals, relationships, alliances, agendas and truth in tatters.

Opinion

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 15: Bruce Lehrmann arrives at court on April 15, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Justice Michael Lee is scheduled to hand down his verdict today in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson. The case stems from allegations made by Brittany Higgins on 'The Project' news program that she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House. Lehrmann denied having any sexual contact with Ms Higgins and alleged he was defamed and identified by the broadcast, despite not being named. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Homeless, jobless and broke: ‘Rapist’ Lehrmann’s new future

Bruce Lehrmann took Lisa Wilkinson and Channel 10 to court hoping to make bank. Instead he finds himself homeless, jobless, broke and sporting the new title of ‘rapist’. So, what’s next?

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