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Sydney’s Tent City 06/06/24

An encampment of rough sleepers has sprung up outside the Reserve Bank’s Martin Place offices as hundreds of people sleep on the street in the City of Sydney every night. 

 

Taxpayers are forking out $2 million a year to look after a intellectually disabled boy, but his care is still failing so catastrophically he has been the subject of more than 500 critical incidents in less than two years. 

 

A court has heard two Queensland owned electricity generators allegedly manipulated the price bracket of their wholesale power packages to create massive artificial spikes in energy market prices for their own profit.  
 

Alleged Bicycle Bandit, armed robber and terminal cancer patient Kym Allen Parsons has been approved for voluntary assisted dying and has the means to end his life, eight months before his trial. 

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