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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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New Year’s EveNation

Capturing fireworks is all about timing and position - timing to capture the explosion and position to get the right light like this shot at Darling Harbour in Sydney. PHoto: RYAN FOWLER

Councils rebel over fireworks ‘disaster’

Sydney’s midnight fireworks spectacular will go ahead on New Year’s Eve but many revellers will not be able to party on the harbour.

Stephen Rice and Rhiannon Down

Politics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 21, 2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews arrives at a media conference at the Parliament House gardens. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Gladys much faster than dithering Dan

Contrary to the Victorian Premier’s assertions, NSW has moved much faster to impose restrictions than Victoria did in dealing with its second wave.

Stephen Rice and DAVID TANNER

New restrictionsNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos DECEMBER, 20, 2020: NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is seen during a COVID-19 press conference in St LeonardsÃs, Sydney. 30 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed, with 28 directly linked to the Avalon cluster, with new restrictions being expanded for the Greater Sydney area until midnight on Wednesday as a precaution. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

Battle is on to beat the Covid Grinch

Next two days to determine Sydney’s Christmas plans as authorities race to stop spread of northern beaches cluster.

Stephen Rice

‘A disaster waiting to happen’Nation

Professor Raina MacIntyreHead | Biosecurity Research Program | Kirby Institute | UNSW MedicineProfessor of Global Biosecurity & NHMRC Principal Research Fellow Picture: UNSW

New Year’s ‘mother of all super-spreaders’

Top epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre warns that Sydney faces up to 3000 cases by January unless there is an immediate short and sharp lockdown.

Stephen Rice

FRANTIC SCENESNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 18: Airline passengers wait in line to check in at Sydney's Kingsford Smith domestic airport on December 18, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. A cluster of Covid-19 cases on the northern beaches of Sydney has grown to 28, prompting NSW health officials to urge residents of affected suburbs to stay home. Traffic at Sydney Airport has increased as people rush to leave the city with several states imposing quarantine restrictions for New South Wales residents. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

Great Escape before premiers ruin Christmas

Unseemly scramble erupts for seats on last flights out of Sydney.

Stephen Rice and Mackenzie Scott

LIVE: CoronavirusPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 17, 2020. Northern Beaches local residents line up at Mona Vale hospital for a COVID-19 test . Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Stay home, residents told as cluster surges

Residents from Palm Beach to The Spit have been told to stay at home from now as Sydney’s northern beaches coronavirus cluster grows to 17.

Stephen Rice, Adeshola Ore and Angelica Snowden

Media

The Australian's new cadets. (L-R) Ellie Dudley, Jess Malcolm, Rhiannon Down and Joseph Lam. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Generation next upholds grand tradition

The Australian is again upholding the great newspaper tradition of hiring cadets — five young men and women brimming with enthusiasm and eager to make their mark at the national daily.

Stephen Rice

Duke of GloucesterNation