Embattled former NRL star Brett Finch has been ­arrested for allegedly making comments about child abuse material in an online chatroom.

Fully vaccinated “close ­contacts” of a Covid case should only need to get a test and isolate while waiting for their results, a number of senior NSW ministers say.

More than one in five Year 9 boys in the state still cannot meet the national minimum standard in writing, while now one in eight boys also cannot make the grade when it comes to reading.

And in sport, concerns are growing over David Warner’s fitness for Thursday’s Test match at Adelaide Oval with the opener struggling to recover from a painful rib injury. 

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