Bombshell allegations have been made in court that cricketer Stuart MacGill facilitated cocaine deals at his restaurant on Sydney’s North Shore.

Luke and Tiffany Hale had spent five years saving up a deposit for a house – only to see it vanish in seconds thanks to scammers.

Two years after retired cricketer Michael Slater was kicked off a Qantas flight for being “disruptive”, it has emerged that one of the women he argued with on that short-haul Sydney to Wagga Wagga flight was the same woman who sought and obtained an AVO against Slater in October.

Mandatory masks are out and school excursions and sports carnivals back on amid plans to make 2022 a “disruption free” year of schooling. 

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