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Kathryn Magann and Luke Costin

NSW sets the clock for high school phone ban

Chris Minns visited Condell Park High School to announce a state-wide mobile phone ban in schools. (Steven Saphore/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

On a visit to a school in Sydney's southwest, new NSW Premier Chris Minns popped his phone into a plastic container - a ritual tens of thousands of students will go through daily from October.

The promise to enforce a ban on mobile phones in every public high school classroom would come into effect from term four, Mr Minns said on Monday.

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