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Albanese isn’t alone. ‘Stunning’ properties are common for MPs

About two-thirds of federal parliamentarians own two or more properties, an analysis of declared interests shows.

  • Lisa Visentin, Rachel Clun and Olivia Ireland

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Killarney Heights Public School students Alicia Preston, Anais Sales, Hugo Prud’homme and Ralph Korompis. It has been 25 years since the school started its French bilingual program, and the suburb now has the largest population of French speakers in Australia.

The school that turned a Sydney suburb French

With 6.1 per cent of its population speaking French in the home, Killarney Heights is the Francophone capital of Australia. But it was not always this way.

  • Mary Ward
Without clear pathways and free services, women run a complicated and time-consuming maze to access affordable abortion.

The women who can’t afford an abortion and can’t afford to wait

Vulnerable women are facing an agonising search for access to abortion that stretches well into their second trimester more than five years after pregnancy terminations were decriminalised in NSW.

  • Kate Aubusson
Mental health organisations say social media can provide free access to support for young people.

We tax big tobacco due to its health impact. Why not social media companies?

Mental health advocates say the government is failing young people by pushing social media bans instead of improving access to unaffordable psychology services.

  • Mary Ward
President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council Denise Lofts.

Public schools to take on cyberbullying after class, publish clear rules

It will be mandatory for schools to outline strategies for teachers to identify, prevent and respond to bullying – including cyberbullying outside the classroom.

  • Christopher Harris
Sheridan Beaumont, right, and her father, Phil Barry-Cotter run tours at their oyster farm north of Sydney.

Swapping the Opera House for an oyster farm: new direction for Sydney tourism

A review of NSW’s tourism strategy will recommend the state government adopts an “experience-led” approach.

  • Mary Ward
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Data from nearly six months of NSW’s landmark pre-court diversion scheme suggests the vast majority of people are still being sent through the overburdened legal system.

Postcode lottery: Where police have shunned state’s new drug laws

Data from nearly six months of NSW’s landmark pre-court diversion scheme suggests the vast majority of people are still being sent through the overburdened legal system.

  • Max Maddison
Construction of the Parramatta Powerhouse in February.

Powerhouse Parramatta unlikely to open before mid-2026

Unseasonal rainfall has dampened hopes that the delayed western Sydney museum will open by the end of next year.

  • Linda Morris
Makaydee Leayr and her son, Marcus, are among the residents of Broken Hill living in homes contaminated by lead.

In Broken Hill as in Sydney, the answer is housing

Poor quality housing is one of several factors contributing to a looming health crisis in the state’s far west.

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Joanna McNeill with daughters Matilda, 7, and Charlee, 5. The 36-year-old contracted silicosis after working in admin in a portable office at a quarry in Melbourne’s east. Most of the nation’s workplace health and safety ministers agreed in December to prohibit the use, supply and manufacture of engineered stone from July 2024, while Canberra vowed to ban imports from an unspecified date, in a deal celebrated by unions and health experts.

New laws protect 600,000 workers from deadly dust, but they come too late for Joanna

New laws give workers exposed to respiratory crystalline silica dust the right to demand multiple safety control measures.

  • Amber Schultz

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