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Jim O’Rourke is a journalist with more than 35 years’ experience writing for major metropolitan newspapers as well as community and regional mastheads. He has covered politics, local government, industrial relations, transport, courts and crime.

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Jim O'Rourke

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NSW

Patient commuters pictured at Central Station waiting in line to top up their Opal cards. Picture: Christian Gilles

Opal card could soon lose its lustre

MORE than seven million Opal cards have been issued across NSW, but the way we pay to use public transport is set to radically change.

NSW

Image of a depressed teenage girl sitting on the chair while her father’s silhouette quarreling on the foreground

Wife ‘watched as coach raped girl, 8’

AN eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her soccer coach, while his wife would look on, in a string of assaults that may have infected the girl with HIV, the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse has heard.

NSW

Endangered Green and Golden Bell Frog. Supplied: Sydney Olympic Park Authority

WestConnex under threat… from frogs

IT’S green and slimy and it derailed the building program for the Sydney Olympic. And now the green and golden bell frog is hopping back into the spotlight by affecting construction of the WestConnex.

ExclusiveNSW

Cowardly vandals terrorise rail staff

POLICE are hunting a group of violent thugs who are inciting members of the public to physically attack transport officers, ticket inspectors and rangers.

NSW

Free rides: Opal card ‘is losing millions’

COMMUTERS on the city’s 5000 buses are constantly faced with Opal card readers malfunctioning, forcing drivers to let passengers ride for free.

News

Car an motorbeke collided inbound to city outside Milson pt station this moring

Crack team to prevent Bridge hell repeat

POLICE will now base one of its accident crash investigation vehicles in the CBD to deal with accidents that cripple Sydney’s roads, like yesterday’s Harbour Bridge chaos.

News

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas announces his retirement at Surry Hills Police Centre. Picture Craig Greenhill

Nick Kaldas, the best cop boss NSW never had

HE was the cops’ cop — among rank and file officers. They trusted him, bowing to his impressive 34 years in blue that was littered with success and accolades. But he wasn’t to make the top.

National

Disabled toilet, ambulant bathroom sign. Picture: Istock

Hidden camera found in station loo

A RAILWAY employee has been caught secretly filming commuters using a disabled toilet at a busy Sydney train station.

NSW

Commuter using disabled toilet spots camera

A man, 53, was arrested by Police Transport Command officers after a 19-year-old woman saw the lens pointing at her at Rockdale railway station.

NSW

A guard on a Monday morning service from the CBD to Homebush takes an opportunity to sit down and look at a mobile device as the train travels between Central and Redfern stations. Pic: Supplied

Train guards want to hide from public view

“INTIMIDATED” guards on Sydney’s commuter trains are upset that they can be seen by passengers while sitting in their compartment.

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