The NSW seats and candidates to watch this federal election
Australia’s most populous state is also shaping up to be the most competitive, with marginal electorates hanging in the balance across the state.
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Police probe ransom demands after mum murdered
Police are investigating ransom demands and whether a Bankstown mother, who was brutally kidnapped and murdered, was attacked because of her partner’s possible links to a Victorian organised crime group.
Another Jewish Labor MP reveals why he is backing the Greens
Jewish Labor MP Dr Mike Freelander has been forced to defend his decision to preference the Greens second after the Jewish community pleaded with both major parties to put the minor party last over its position on the Gaza war.
Fringe party’s plans to make Broken Hill the Aussie Las Vegas
A fringe political party wants to turn Broken Hill into Australia’s own version of Las Vegas, by scrapping booze and gambling taxes to create a tourism hub for “high-rollers, partygoers and big spenders” like Donald Trump.
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Pub worker off on $60k compo caught working for competitor
A former hotel manager has been ordered to repay more than $60,000 in workers compensation payments while on psychological injury leave, after being caught working at a different pub while claiming she had no capacity to work.
Sydney Archbishop’s ‘moving’ moment with Pope Francis
Pope Francis appointed Anthony Fisher to lead the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney in 2014. An emotional Archbishop has described Francis as “encouraging” and “positive”. Read his full statement.
Liberal Party truck crashes into voting booth
A Liberal Party truck has smashed into a voting booth building in Sydney’s north-west on the eve of pre-polling opening for the federal election — with the damage so great the booth will not be able to open on Tuesday.
Ausgrid fires warning shots over ‘dangerous’ political signs
Nine candidates, including Climate 200-backed Nicolette Boele in Bradfield, have been told to remove political corflutes from Ausgrid power poles immediately, with four men sprung with Ms Boele posters.
‘Did everything I could’: Horror bid to save Kai, killed when trapped in rocks
Distraught witnesses created a human chain, while others held the hands of nine-year-old Kaison Greaves, trapped between rocks at a north coast beach, as rescuers tried desperately, but unsuccessfully, to free him.
How much longer will Sydney be smoky?
Hazard reduction burns in the Blue Mountains and the Greater Sydney region have cloaked Sydney in smoke. We’ve got the word on when skies should will clear.
Bottle shops, supermarkets fight for Anzac Day trading rights
Bottle shops, supermarkets and clothes shops are among hundreds of businesses that have failed to be granted exemptions to open their doors this Anzac Day after claiming they are “essential services”.
Threats to associates before mother’s brutal kidnap, murder
As tributes flow for Thi Kim Tran, police probe threats made to associates of the Bankstown mum before she was kidnapped and found dead in a burnt out car.
Man fronts court for upskirting woman at Bunnings
A senior manager who secretly filmed up a woman’s skirt at a Bunnings store has faced court, after being caught in the act by the victim and her husband.
Disability pension denied despite man’s clubfoot
With every step, Kevin Dynan carries the dual weight of a lifelong disability – a clubfoot – and the burden of a system which has denied him the Disability Support Pension not once but twice.
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