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Lachlan LeemingState political reporter

Lachlan Leeming is a state political reporter for The Daily Telegraph, working out of the Macquarie Street press gallery. Over his career he has covered politics, local government, natural disasters, crime and court, both in the UK and throughout regional Australia.

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Images supplied by State Library of NSW as part of the ONE Hundred exhibition. Photographs taken when the bubonic plague hit The Rocks, Sydney in January 1900 In the summer of 1900, bubonic plague reached Sydney and 103 people died. The Sutton Forest Butchery's meat preparation area was clearly less than ideal and probably contributed to those mortality figures. Under the supervision of George McCredie, who was given charge of cleansing the city, areas of The Rocks were barricaded off and its slums were demolished. Public Works photographer, John Degotardi Jnr., recorded the cleansing operations, producing an extraordinary social document of the poverty and squalor. ** FREE USE TO PUBLICISE THE ONE HUNDRED EXHIBITION / NO SALES ***

Plague or pandemic, this old suburb will never die

Having weathered some of history’s biggest curve balls including the bubonic plague, the pandemic is merely the latest chapter in the colourful history of this Sydney suburb.

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Milawa, about 20 kilometres from Warren, where residents say they are "suffering with no end in sight here" due to the plague. , Picture: Supplied

Apocalyptic: ‘biblical’ rodent explosion plagues NSW

First it was the drought, then the rain. Now the state’s farmers are being plagued by a ‘biblical explosion’ of rodents.

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