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**EMBARGOED: SPEAK TO NICK EAGAR ON DT PIC DESK BEFORE USE** Cop by day, epic Star Wars collector by night: Sydney’s Mick
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Is this the ultimate revenge of the nerd?

IT may not have been cool when he started, but for Mick ‘Fett’ Pylak, being a super fan has paid off, with the Sydney cop amassing Australia’s largest Star Wars collection worth an estimated $500,000. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO

Jarrod Redmond, 23, and Rebecca Michelsen, 21, pose for a photo at their new home today, October 6, 2018. The young couple have successfully bought their first home at in Emu Heights. (AAP Image/David Swift)
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Australian dream still alive

THEY are the young, ambitious entrepreneurs that are determined to climb the housing ladder, no matter what it takes. Millennials may be facing an uncertain real estate market, but these ones, at least, are convinced they will, one day, buy their own home.

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Art - painting of racehorse Phar Lap.

The day Phar Lap ruled the world

WHEN Australia’s most legendary racehorse was caught behind the field in a cloud of dust in the world’s richest race, things looked grim. But this was Phar Lap and something extraordinary happened.

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Faces of Ice Project

Shock reality of our ice addiction

PAUL Toohey and Gary Ramage travelled 9000km across the country, meeting ice users, doctors and desperate parents to understand our worst-ever drug epidemic. This is the story of the Ice Nation.

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Trent Mitchell

The best wave in Australia

WELCOME to the takeoff zone — an intense surfing zone where one wrong move could get you slammed into jagged rocks or knocked out on the hard sand bottom. Then there’s the other surfers. TAKE THE WAVE

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NEWS 1998 Brenden Abbott postcard bandit detained in Queensland wanting to return to WA

The crim who embarrassed Queensland

HE was a notorious fugitive who became a part of crime folklore. But an author claims he was a “political trophy” punished for “embarrassing the Queensland Government”.

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