Fix the 'wheel squeal', Sydney Trains told
Stop talking, pause the movie, close the windows: a train is coming. This is the experience of Sydney's lower North Shore residents living alongside a railway line notorious for "wheel squeal".
- by Saffron Howden
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Man in court after baby allegedly beaten and burnt
The injuries inflicted on a 10-month-old baby boy from Sydney's west have been described as by police as "horrendous".
- by Saffron Howden
'Horrendous': Man charged after baby allegedly beaten and burnt
The injuries inflicted on a 10-month-old baby boy from Sydney's west have been described as by police as "horrendous".
- by Saffron Howden
Police, protesters clash at Martin Place rally to oppose anti-Islam groups
The rally was organised to counter an anti-Islam protest being held at the site of the Sydney siege.
- by Saffron Howden
Less than 10 per cent of rental houses within a 20km radius of Sydney CBD now affordable
Tina was working at a Bondi nursing home and scraping by to pay her rent. Now she is borrowing from friends to stay afloat.
- by Saffron Howden
Optus removes Arabic ads from shopping centre after alleged threat to staff
Optus has removed a new advertisement written in Arabic from a Sydney shopping centre after complaints from shoppers and customers following the Paris attacks.
- by Saffron Howden
Paris attacks: War to protect values forged in trenches, French ambassador says
France and Australia are fighting a war to protect the shared values forged in the muddy trenches of the Great War, the French ambassador said in the wake of the Paris attacks.
- by Saffron Howden
Parents left out in the cold over plans to combat 'violent extremism' in schools
A $47m scheme to combat violent extremism in schools has got parents worried.
- by Saffron Howden
Injecting drug use, HIV, hep C escalating in Indigenous communities
Injecting drug use is escalating among Indigenous Australians, bringing with it alarming rates of HIV and hepatitis C infection.
- by Saffron Howden
Woman fined for $6.75 tampon box theft donates crowdfunded money to charity
An Australian woman who made headlines around the globe after she was fined $500 for stealing a $6.75 pack of tampons will donate to charity a quarter of the money raised in her name to ensure it doesn't happen to other women.
- by Saffron Howden
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane labels Hizb ut-Tahrir views 'absurd'
Australia's race discrimination commissioner has slammed a controversial Islamic group over its claims "de-radicalisation" amounts to forced assimilation.
- by Saffron Howden
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