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Linda Silmalis has been covering politics for more than two decades, breaking both state and federal stories and investigating issues that impact NSW voters. As author of The Sauce political gossip column, she goes behind the scenes to expose what really goes on in the corridors of power.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - Pictured are Corrective Service Officers conducting drug searches with sniffer dogs, on Visitors at the Silverwater Correction Centre today. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Drug busts find ice hidden in bras

SNIFFER dogs at our prisons have found wives and girlfriends trying to smuggle bags of tobacco, ice or even heroin into the jail, usually stuffed into their bras.

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Biggest shake-up of school safety laws in 30 years

A RADICAL overhaul of NSW school safety laws will give new powers to principals to force “significant risk” to study through remote education.

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Doctor’s suspension leaves pregnant women stranded

A COUNTRY town is facing the choice of an obstetrician with a criminal conviction or allowing women to give birth by the side of the road with no one willing to take over the job.

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N13KN401 Knox foster care family Mandy and Trevor Allen from Ferntree Gully. DO NOT LIGHTEN IMAGE CHILDREN NOT TO BE IDENTIFIED.

Children put in same motels as crims

EXCLUSIVE: Children and babies taken into care are being put up in the same highway motels and caravan parks used for emergency accommodation for parolees.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - 23/8/17 - MUST CHECK WITH JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE USING- Blacktown animal shelter in Western Sydney which will be relocated and expanded in the future. Rescue pups pictured playing.

No death row for unwanted pets

EXCLUSIVE: An ambitious new animal shelter in Western Sydney won’t put pets on death row but instead aims to find homes for all ‘adoptable’ pets.

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Wild dog walks 500km searching for a mate, disappears

HIS name is “Midnight” and over four months, he embarked on a solo 500km journey from the Big Banana to the Queensland border in search of a soulmate.

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Mini-Max to segregate radicals

EXCLUSIVE: It is Australia’s toughest jail but Goulburn’s notorious Supermax will become tougher when it gets its own terrorist prison aimed at keeping inmates from being radicalised.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL. MUST CONTACT JEFF DARMANIN ST PIC ED BEFORE PUBLISHING. MUST CREDIT PAUL MCIVER

Wild brumby cull plan to be axed

EXCLUSIVE: A controversial plan to cull almost the entire population of wild horses in the Snowy Mountains is set to be shelved — with an alternative plan being devised.

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Taronga Zoo’s secret new baby

HE took two years to get here and 35 minutes to pop out. And he weighed in at 130kg before he had a feed. Taronga Zoo has welcomed its baby boy elephant.

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Daily Telegraph - NO BYLINE - General photographs of Punchbowl Boys High School following an alleged threat of violence against the incoming principal Robert Patruno who recently replaced outgoing principal Chris Griffiths and his deputy Joumana Dennaoui over a range of alleged issues, including refusing to participate in a state government-funded program to counter violent extremism after the school was deemed Òhigh riskÓ.

‘Teach teens to be Aussies’

EXCLUSIVE: Muslim students would volunteer at RSLs, surf-lifesaving and take part in the Kokoda Trek under a plan former Punchbowl High School principal Jihad Dib wants to roll out to stop radicalisation.

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