Billboards and mobile phone alerts brandishing the state government’s new testing rules were rolled out last night under a major campaign to keep citizens away from swamped testing clinics.

Sydney property prices jumped an extraordinary 25 per cent during 2021 – ­capping off an incredible year that also saw the highest number of sales on record in Australia.

A teenage tradie who enjoys a life of slick cars and designer clothes was reduced to taking out the trash at his parents’ place yesterday after being charged with allegedly living a double life as a drug dealer. 

And in sport, today marks Sydney’s pink-powered return to the crease as a world-class city – and no plague or deluge is going to stand in our way.

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