Minns supports urgent review into mental health legal loophole
The NSW Premier has thrown his support behind Attorney-General Michael Daley’s call for an ‘urgent review’ into a surge of cases being dismissed in court on mental health grounds.
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Record amount of money visitors spent in NSW
NSW has recorded its highest-ever visitor expenditure after domestic and international travellers spent an eye-watering figure across the state last year alone.
How Sydney almost stole the Aussie Tennis Open
Former Events NSW boss John O’Neill has revealed how Sydney sweet talked Tennis Australia bosses about bringing the Australian Open to Sydney before the Victorian Government opened its purse strings to keep the Grand Slam event in Melbourne.
Minister denies yelling at senior bureaucrat
A Minns government minister is alleged to have “yelled” at her own senior department bureaucrat, demanding a $33m grant for a sports hub in a Nationals electorate be returned.
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‘Increased risk’: Absconding incident sparks psych warning
Psychiatrists warn the state’s most high risk patients will walk out of emergency rooms and back onto the streets amid psychiatrist shortages, following an alleged absconding incident at a hospital this week.
Flight delays loom as Sydney airport workers strike
More than a thousand airport ground handlers, including up to 200 in Sydney, are set to walk off the job during rolling four-hour stoppages.
Two charged after off-duty cop attacked on city street
Police have charged two men after an off-duty police officer was knocked to the ground and repeatedly kicked in the head when he tried to calm a group having a verbal argument in Newtown.
‘Don’t wait’: Drivers warned to fill up to beat Oz Day fuel shocker
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Thousands queue for ‘wet socks’ smell as flower finally blooms
A rare and revolting spectacle has drawn tens of thousands to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, where a foul-smelling flower known as “Putricia” has finally bloomed.
‘Catastrophic for our city’: The cost of The Star falling
Business Sydney executive director Paul Nicolaou warns that it could be “catastropic” for Sydney, should Star Entertainment collapse.
‘Not a matter of wokeness’: Scene axed from Crocodile Dundee cut
One of the most controversial scenes in the 1986 classic, Crocodile Dundee, has been cut, as the film returns to cinemas in 4K. Paul Hogan insists the decision has nothing to do with “wokeness”.
Second arrest over anti-Semitic attack on Newtown synagogue
The 37-year-old was Tasered during his arrest at a hotel on the same day police across the country revealed plans to share information and intelligence about anti-Semitism.
More pubs shun Australia Day … now it’s just the ‘long weekend’
Another big hospitality group is snubbing Australia Day, renaming it the “January long weekend” with no reference to the public holiday it revolves around.
Good will punting: Hollywood ending as Dale wins for Matt Damon
Until Thursday, perhaps the best thing you could say about Hollywood star and racing tragic Matt Damon’s racehorse, Dale, was he was well owned. Then Dale took a trip to Tamworth.
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