MILLIONS of dollars in cash and drugs have been seized in dramatic arrests throughout Sydney after a year-long global operation involving NSW police, US Homeland Security and the AFP.

THE education department has been hiring new bureaucrats three times faster than it has been recruiting teachers, with 49 additional executives employed in 2021 compared to three years earlier.

The former Melbourne Storm premiership hero, State of Origin star and broadcaster’s spectacular fall from grace was completed as he was sentenced inside Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court.

EX-NRL star Brett Finch avoided jail on Wednesday for sending a series of “depraved” child abuse messages via a sex chat service after a judge accepted they were part of a desperate and “absurd” attempt to feed his drug addiction.