New research has revealed first-home buyers hoping to get into the market with help from recently ­expanded federal initiatives are facing slim pickings in Sydney. 

A $400,000 plan to address the critical teacher shortage by luring and training “career changers” into the profession is still being designed with not one new staff member having yet been recruited. 

The socialite licensee and public face of a ritzy eastern suburbs bar offered to help get an undercover cop $300 worth of cocaine via a dealer “down the street”. 

Polls in four battleground battler seats where voters rank economic management, cost-of-living and interest rates as the most important issues, has found Labor is neck-and-neck with the ­Coalition government on who is best to deal with them. 

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