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School funding.

We learnt how much funding NSW schools receive: What does yours get?

Top selective schools James Ruse and North Sydney Boys benefited from parent contributions upwards of $2000 per student. Search our table to see how your school fares.

  • Christopher Harris

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Chulho’s steamed Nepalese momos.

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  • David Matthews
The state government’s new long-distance trains are being built at a manufacturing plant in northern Spain.

Bungled NSW train project risks running later than worst-case scenario

The fleet of new Spanish-built passenger trains is already $826 million over budget and on track to be at least three years late entering service.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Martin allegedly had two privately made machine guns in his possession when he was arrested.

Former cop ‘main driver’ of syndicate allegedly manufacturing ‘sophisticated’ machine guns

One of NSW’s most senior detectives described the former Australian Federal Police officer’s alleged offending as “abhorrent”.

  • Riley Walter
NSW Police forensic and police officers at the home on Jamieson Ave in Baulkham Hills where three children and a woman were stabbed and a crime scene has been established. Baulkham Hills, NSW. March 31, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Mother to remain in custody over stabbing of her three sleeping children

The woman’s attempted murder charges have been heard in court after she allegedly attacked her children in their sleep before their screams woke their father.

  • Clare Sibthorpe, Riley Walter, Daniel Lo Surdo and Jessica McSweeney
Billy Wong.
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If little of the original Golden Century remains, is it still Golden Century? The verdict

For devotees of the Cantonese icon, the reborn GC might feel like your parents have moved from your childhood home into flash new digs. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find yum cha with a better view.

  • Myffy Rigby
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Students at six schools this year have been told they must resit the tests.

Number of schools caught by NAPLAN writing scandal grows

Academic integrity experts say the advent of artificial intelligence has made high-stakes tests such as NAPLAN more susceptible to cheating.

  • Christopher Harris
CLT with TLC.

New Sydney homes that go up ‘like a Lego kit’

A leading architect whose clients include 20 of Australia’s richest people is experimenting with fast, sustainable materials on a row of four terraces in Bondi Junction.

  • Julie Power
Scenes from mosque

WATCH: Liberal frontbencher heckled out of Melbourne mosque

The backlash came a day after Peter Dutton visited a Sydney mosque, as the Coalition courts voters in ethnically and religiously diverse communities.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

‘We love the harbour’: Dutton says he would live in Sydney as prime minister

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused the opposition leader of hubris and “measuring the curtains” before the election.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Olivia Ireland

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