Stephen Rice

Stephen RiceSydney Bureau Chief

Stephen Rice started his newspaper career at The Sydney Morning Herald before moving into television, where he became executive producer of Nine’s Business Sunday programs. He has worked as a senior investigative producer on 60 Minutes and the Seven Network’s Sunday Night. He has twice won Walkley awards, including the award for Leadership in Journalism, and has law and arts degrees from ANU.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY, 2, 2021: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian speaks to media in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Tracers struggle to get ahead of outbreak

Health authorities fear the Greater Sydney lockdown may have to be extended as case numbers spiked on Friday with 31 new cases recorded in NSW.

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‘red flag’Politics

11/5/21: Rachael Natoli escaped an abusive relationship six years ago with her twin boys, now 8. She has set up the Lokahi Foundation, a caseworker organisation that helps women who are fleeing DV with navigating police, courts, Centrelink, housing etc. She is hoping more money will be announced in the federal budget that could help women leave abusive relationships safely. With help like that she says more women would leave earlier and stay separated from violent partners.John Feder/Thje Australian.

DV law to make coercion a crime

Domestic abuse laws to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviour, identified as a ‘red flag for murder’, are set to be introduced in NSW in what will be ground-breaking legislation for Australia.

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NSW budgetNation

Road, rail, transport underpin $108bn Covid recovery spend

The government’s infrastructure program continues to be the backbone of the state’s remarkable recovery, with $108bn of works in the pipeline.

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NSW budgetNation

Foreclosure Auction money house. Picture: Thinkstock

Are you one of Perrottet’s winners?

Among the big winners from the budget are preschoolers, public servants and punters. Seniors and home buyers lose out.

Stephen Rice and Ben Wilmot

Nation

Embargoed for The Daily Telegraph Monday 23/11/20NSW paramedics Craig Hall, Corinne Keefe and Amy Neal (right) who were fist on the scene for the Oatlands crash. Pictured at the Northmead Ambulance station. Picture: Jonathan Ng

NSW public service set for wage boost

Public service workers will receive a wage increase of up to 2.5 per cent in Tuesday’s budget thanks to the state’s sharp rebound from the pandemic.

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ExclusiveNation

Facebook photo of Eliahi Priest posted on 25/09/2020.

Conspiracy theorist at home with ABC

A key witness in the Four Corners story on QAnon is a serial conspiracy theorist who admits he took part in the ABC TV program to ‘damage Scott Morrison’.

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AnalysisNation

Nick McKenzie, Investigative Reporter for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review.

Journo on edge as trap shoot drags on

Ben Roberts-Smith isn’t the only one whose reputation will live or die on the outcome of this high-stakes defamation case.

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exclusiveIndigenous

Laurie Bimson who claims to be a descendant of Aboriginal leader King Bungaree gives tour

Bloodline doubt sees references wiped out

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will stop using the term ‘Guringai’ after claims a group using the name is ‘not of Aboriginal descent’.

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EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

GURINGAI STORY.Bob Syron in the National park near Gawler. He is an indigenous man from the Guringai people in the Hunter area of NSW who is upset that another group calling itself the Guringai are claiming native title over parts of Sydney and the Central Coast.Tuesday May 18 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt

Bloodlines row over native title claim

A group demanding native title over parts of Sydney and Central Coast aren’t ‘recognised as being of Aboriginal descent’, say seven Aboriginal land councils.

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Nation

A wanted man, Mohamed Zuhbi, has been arrested on his return to Australia from Turkey following a NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) investigation into suspected terrorism offences. The 30-year-old former Sydney man, who was the subject of an outstanding arrest warrant in NSW, was arrested at Melbourne International Airport by members of the AFP International Counter Terrorism Investigations Response Team after arriving on a flight from Turkey about 4pm yesterday (Saturday 8 May 2021).

Accused ISIS fighter home to face terrorism charges

An Australian claiming to have gone to Syria as an aid worker but accused of being a frontline fighter has returned to Australia under heavy guard.

Stephen Rice and Rhiannon Down

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