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Kaitlyn Hudson-O’Farrell is a general news reporter and has worked at The Daily Telegraph since June 2019. She enjoys covering everything from breaking hard news to grassroots community affairs and lifestyle or health yarns.

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Dr Cathy Kezelman at her Belevue Hill home. Dr Cathy Kezelman is receiving an AM on Australia Day. She is President of Adults Surviving Child Abuse. Picture by DAMAN SHAW

$40m paid to school sex assault survivors

School students who have been sexually assaulted have been paid $40 million in compensation in the last two decades, new figures have found.

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Pictured by Sydney Harbour are members of the Fijian rugby league squad , Wes Naiqama , Vuate Karawalevu and Pio Seci. They are in Sydney with the Fijian rugby league team who, only hours out of quarantine, will spend the next six months living in Australia and competing in Ron Massey Cup.Picture: Richard Dobson

League players’ hotel quarantine serenade

A Fijian team has issued a special thank you to hotel staff for looking after them during their quarantine — by singing from their balconies.

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A man wanted over an alleged hammer assault in Sydney’s CBD is arrested in the Blue Mountains this afternoon. Picture: NSW Police

Police arrest wanted hammer attack accused

A man wanted by police for allegedly bashing a sex worker with a sledge hammer inside a Sydney CBD hotel on Tuesday has been found.

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Man stabbed in shopping centre brawl

A man has survived a broken jaw and multiple stab wounds in a violent brawl outside a major western Sydney shopping centre.

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Nick Kyrgios and Chiara Passari, Picture: Instagram

The cryptic clue Kyrgios has rekindled romance

One hint on social media could hold the answers to the tennis star’s relationship status.

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Fuel leak chaos as residents forced to evacuate

At least 20 homes have been evacuated after a fuel tanker crashed into two cars with petrol spilling onto a major Sydney road.

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TAMWORTH WEATHER - A severe thunderstorm approaches the city of Tamworth in northern NSW on Wednesday., The storm brought large dumpings of hail to residents' homes, with 1cm hail falling hard and fast for up to 10 minutes., Tamworth homes blanketed in white thanks to the storm cell's heavy hail. PIC CREDIT - Chris Burton

Hail covers Tamworth in white as storms lash northern NSW

A blanket of hail lies across Tamworth after a severe storm, which also caused flooding and power outages.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 24: Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks at a press conference about the continued easing of Covid-19 restrictions. Sydney CBD.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Cough up Queensland: NSW gets stiffed for $30m

Gladys Berejiklian has slammed Queensland’s “lame excuse” for a sudden refusal to pay NSW what it owes for hotel quarantine.

Police & Courts

Four charged over alleged motor vehicle theft syndicate. Just before 2pm on Friday 12 February 2021, two men – aged 52 and 29 – were arrested at a house on Heffron Road, Lalor Park and taken to Quakers Hill Police Station., A search warrant was executed at the house, where police seized a 2019 Mercedes C220, which was reported stolen from a house in Bella Vista the previous day, cannabis and ice. Source NSW POlice

Five charged in crackdown on alleged car theft ring

Five men will face court for their involvement in criminal groups stealing and onselling vehicles across Sydney.

UpdatedThe Express

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY, 23, 2021: Members of the Crash Investigation Unit and NSW Police are seen at the scene of a fatal crash in Chester Hill, Sydney. A female pedestrian has died at the scene after being hit by a garbage truck early this morning on Woodland Rd, Chester Hill. NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Garbo charged after elderly woman run over

The driver of a garbage truck has been arrested and charged after allegedly hitting and killing a woman with his truck in southwest Sydney.

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