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Haylee Kerans with Summer Hill Public school students at the basketball court at Darrell Jackson Gardens.

Levelling the playing field on school sport

Participation in school sport gives young children an opportunity to sample a range of activities. Education should be viewed as an investment, not an expenditure.

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Lionel Murphy and the front page of The Age on February 2, 1984

Anatomy of a scandal: A top judge, secret police tapes and reporters under fire

The story behind the story of an extraordinary investigation that pointed to a web of influence at the highest levels of our political and legal systems.

  • Tony Wright
Roger Rogerson in an Oxford Street coffee shop in 1982.

‘He was not born bad’: How Roger Rogerson became Australia’s most corrupt cop

Roger Rogerson started out as a “brilliant cadet”, but the system he joined was riddled with corruption.

  • Patrick Begley and Carrie Fellner
Caro Meldrum-Hanna, the presenter of Exposed: Ghost Train Fire.

ABC Ghost Train series ‘misleading’ in linking Wran and Saffron

But the independent review found the series Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire was “in most ways an outstanding achievement”.

  • Lisa Visentin
Journalist Caro Meldrum-Hanna and co-investigator Patrick Begley present Exposed: Ghost Train Fire on the ABC.

ABC recruits Rodney Tiffen, Chris Masters to review Ghost Train series

A University of Sydney professor and a high-profile journalist have been asked to review Caro Meldrum-Hanna’s series into the Sydney Luna Park fire tragedy.

  • Zoe Samios
Exterior of the Sirius public housing building at 36-50 Cumberland Street, The Rocks. It has been recommended for heritage listing but the Government still wants to relocate all remaining tennants to make way for development.. 17th February 2016, Photo: Wolter Peeters, The Sydney Morning Herald

Siriusly Sydney? What a way to mark the anniversary of one of people power’s great triumphs

Fifty years ago the world’s first green ban took place, and people knew they had the power to say “stop”. Has the multimillion-dollar sale of an apartment in the Sirius building shown us we have lost that power?

  • Helen Pitt
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Victors despite several scandals ... Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Deputy Premier John Barilaro in Muswellbrook on Saturday, election day, with the winning Nationals candidate Dave Layzell.

Remarkable victory for a fractured Coalition: now only a miracle can save Labor’s Jodi McKay

Given all the scandals engulfing Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Nationals partners in government, they will treasure their victory in the Upper Hunter byelection at the weekend.

  • David Clune
Composite of Clarrie Briese, the 1977 photograph of Murray Farquhar, Dr Nick Paltos and crime boss George Freeman, and Neville Wran.

Bombshell corruption claim about former premier Neville Wran

A new book reveals a damning statement about Neville Wran and his connection to jailed former NSW chief magistrate Murray Farquhar.

  • Kate McClymont
Firmly back in the chair... Premier Neville Wran at a press conference to announce the findings of the Royal Commission on July 28, 1983.

From the Archives, 1983: Neville Wran "completely exonerated"

Exonerated by the Street Royal Commission over claims that he attempted to influence a court case, NSW premier Neville Wran had "nothing to feel pleased about".

  • Paul Byrnes
The scene of Michael McGurk’s execution, his body partly obscured, at the driveway of his home on Sydney’s lower north shore.

Dead man walking: the day hustler Michael McGurk predicted his own death

Less than two weeks before Michael McGurk was shot dead, he'd told journalist Kate McClymont he feared for his life – and named the multimillionaire who had ordered his execution.

  • Kate McClymont

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