Dubbo
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- Crime
‘Post-and-boast’ youth criminals targeted by covert intelligence
Police will turn to surveillance tactics usually reserved for serious gangsters, having recorded a 40 per cent drop in break-ins and car thefts in regional NSW.
- Perry Duffin
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- Crime
The moment NSW’s youth crime wave shocked top cop
A grieving mother lay on the scorching road where her son had just died in a high-speed chase. The senior officer in charge of ending the youth crime crisis says the stakes are high.
- Perry Duffin
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- Health
‘Very serious’: Health charity investigated after Las Vegas trip
Senior bosses from a taxpayer-funded regional health service will meet government bodies on Thursday to respond to allegations it spent thousands on international trips while turning away patients.
- Angus Thomson
- Investigation
- Health
Health bosses rack up $400,000 travel bill while patients wait for care
Staff at the service, which receives $10 million in taxpayer funding, say they are forced to turn away patients due to a critical shortage of doctors and nurses.
- Angus Thomson
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- Child protection
Jack’s mother thought he was being looked after. He died desperate and alone
Jack died in the Blue Mountains the day after his birthday. For his mother Renee, it was the tragic end to years of pain that should never have happened.
- Amber Schultz
- Opinion
- Column 8
Good diplomacy, or just papering over the cracks?
While in Dubbo, the uke prevails over the ute.
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- Crime
‘We’re going to lose a generation of children’: Webb declares war on youth crime
Some children are committing break and enters, posing for photos while holding machetes over victims’ sleeping bodies and boasting about it on social media.
- Amber Schultz
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- Political expenses
NSW Nationals leader jetted to the wineries. He took ministerial car too
Documents released via freedom of information show then-agriculture minister Dugald Saunders took a ministerial vehicle with him on a controversial Hunter Valley trip.
- Michael McGowan
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- Political expenses
Jetting to the wineries: NSW Nationals leader took RFS plane to Hunter Valley
NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders was the only passenger on a 34-minute taxpayer-funded flight from Dubbo to the Hunter region for a two-day trip which included a wine tour and tasting.
- Michael McGowan, Alexandra Smith and Max Maddison
The housing change that has these doctors furious
FIFO doctors raised concerns ranging from the distance between the hospital and accommodation to a lack of comfortable furniture and crockery.
- Angus Thomson
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