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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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NSW

Wildlife Photographer of the Year - :Karine Aigner wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022American photographer Karine Aigner was announced as this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year for her remarkable image of a buzzing ball of cactus bees spinning over the hot sand on a Texas ranch. : Karine Aigne Please credit the photographers clearly and appropriately as well as the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition which is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum. , , , , If these are shared on social media, please ensure you use the watermarked low-res versions and tag the competition and use our hashtag, #WPY58.

Walk on the wild side: Best animal pictures of 2022 revealed

From a ball of bees to snakes hanging in hundreds in caves, everything from the arresting to the electrifying features in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year | See the pictures

OPINIONNSW

Excerpts from a from a four-plus hour conversation with an optus chatbot over dtata breach. Pictures: Supplied

Six days on, I’m a worried Optus customer still on hold

If Optus’ customer details database was as impenetrable as its chatbot service, we wouldn’t be in this mess, writes Debbie Schipp. Read the transcript of the chat here.

NSW

Daylight saving begins in Sydney at 2am on Sunday, October 2, 2022. Picture: Supplied

Clocks forward or back? When does daylight saving start?

Daylight saving starts in many parts of Australia on Sunday, signalling long, light-filled evenings and a glimpse of summer. Here’s how to keep up.

UPDATEDPolice & Courts

Daily telegraph 30/8/22. Chris Dawson walks into the Supreme Court in a large media scrum maybe for the last time .picture John Grainger

Murderer Chris Dawson ‘shocked and upset’ by conviction

Chris Dawson, 74 years old and now a convicted murderer, looked catatonic as officers handcuffed him in the Supreme Court and led him out through the dock.

National

‘Only used powers once’: Morrison sorry for assuming secret roles

Scott Morrison concedes his secret appointments to five portfolios were “unnecessary” amid calls for him to resign as Karen Andrews and former deputy Josh Frydenberg say they were never told their roles secretly assumed.

UPDATEDPolice & Courts

Darian Aspinall, 27, her two children Winter Bellamy, 2, and Koda Bellamy, 4, and their grandmother Lead Gooding, 50, have been reported missing on a road trip from remote Queensland to remote Far West NSW. Picture: NSW Police

Safe: Mum, kids and grandma missing on rural road trip found

A Queensland family of four reported missing in NSW’s far west have been found safe and well by a search helicopter crew after not being seen since Sunday.

UPDATEDQLD News

Safe: Mum, kids and grandma missing on rural road trip found

A Queensland family of four reported missing in NSW’s far west have been found safe and well by a search helicopter crew after not being seen since Sunday.

Business

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 06: People are seen around Perth on February 06, 2021 in Perth, Australia. Western Australia's COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were lifted at 6pm on Friday after no new community coronavirus cases were recorded in the last week. Face masks will remain compulsory in public and at work for another eight days in Perth and Peel once the lockdown ends. The five-day lockdown introduced across the Perth, Peel and South West regions of Western Australia on Sunday 31 January following the discovery of a positive community COVID-19 case in a worker from a quarantine hotel facility. (Photo by Stefan Gosatti/Getty Images)

WA drives jobless rate way down

A booming West Australia economy has helped drive national unemployment down to 5.6 per cent, as the labour market notched its sixth consecutive month of jobs growth.

News

Photos of inside the cell where John Walsh murdered Frank Townsend and the sandwich press murder weapon.

Killer’s cold rage: ‘He just died’

A QUADRUPLE murderer who killed his cellmate at a New South Wales prison with a sandwich press has issued a chilling explanation for his crimes.

National

Gordo Wood leaving court. The continued hearing for Gordon Wood - who is suing the state for malicious prosecution. Kathy Lin and Brenda Lin are in the public gallery to watch Wood and possibly Mark Tedeschi SC in the witness box

Gordon Wood loses lawsuit

GORDON Wood has lost his $20 million malicious prosecution lawsuit against NSW after being acquitted of murdering Caroline Byrne.

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