Driving down waste through recycling and reusing materials such as tyres to make roads will feature in a new “remade in Australia” campaign as part of a “practical” environmental pitch to battleground electorates. 

Up to 10,000 people could be lured into the city every year for an annual event turning more than a kilometre of George Street into a food and entertainment hub under an ambitious plan to take Sydney’s long lunch to the next level.

A cancer-causing drug pulled off shelves in the 1980s is being mixed with cocaine being shipped into Australia, in a warning for partygoers planning a “white Christmas”.

And in sport, Chaz Mostert defied the memory of the Mt Panorama crash that ­almost killed him, a blown tyre and a rampaging Shane van Gisbergen to become a two-time Bathurst champion.

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