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Composite image of the Massa family and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park.

‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit

The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson

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Heidi Foote, 3, died when the 71-year-old driver of an electric car allegedly lost control of her vehicle.

‘The most beautiful child’: Heidi, 3, remembered by parents

The parents of the three-year-old child killed last week have issued a heart-wrenching statement about their “most beautiful child”.

  • Brittany Busch
Police have launched an investigation into the suspicious death of 38-year-old Randwick woman Claire Austin.

Sydney woman dies after running through glass door to flee alleged attacker

Claire Austin was allegedly trying to escape a domestic violence incident in her eastern suburbs unit when she was fatally injured.

  • Riley Walter and Amber Schultz
A search and rescue operation is underway at Tinaroo Dam in Yungaburra, Queensland.

Tourists drown, body of kayak rescuer found in separate tragedies

The discovery of the body of a man who died while trying to rescue children in a dam has added to a tragic day on Queensland waters.

  • Fraser Barton
Police will investigate the man’s death as a “critical incident”.

Nine-year-old boy killed in accidental farm shooting identified

Two people have been charged after a nine-year-old boy was accidentally shot through the neck and killed at a farm near Goulburn in NSW.

  • Josefine Ganko, Kayla Olaya and Riley Walter
Port Stephens is another popular holiday home market with the region’s median house prices jumping 48.4 per cent to $690,000 in the past five years to September 2021 on Domain data.

Man dies after friends carry out rescue at unpatrolled beach

Two men in their 20s were pulled from the water by friends at an unpatrolled beach in Shoal Bay.

  • Josefine Ganko
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Flowers at the memorial site during the reopening of the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Bondi last year.

This place once brought me comfort. Then grief. Now, both

The pain of that day has left a scar on us all.

  • Kerri Sackville
Video footage shows a helicopter plummeting into the Hudson River.

‘Falling apart’ midair: Helicopter plunges into New York’s Hudson River, killing six

A family of Spanish tourists, including three children, and the pilot died when the aircraft broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the river.

  • Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz and Ted Shaffrey
Australian model Lucy Markovic, pictured here in Tuscany in July 2024, has died. She was 27.

‘Bright, shining light’: Australian model Lucy Markovic dies aged 27

Her mother and her partner, who confirmed her passing, were by her side as she succumbed following multiple surgeries.

  • Bronte Gossling and Damien Woolnough
The Jet Set nightclub after its roof collapsed

Trapped victim rang president before she died in roof collapse

Nelsy Cruz, a politician whose brother is a Major League Baseball star, rang the president of the Dominican Republic in the midst of the tragedy, which has left at least 124 people dead.

  • Martin Adames Alcantara and Danica Coto

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