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The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

NSW knife laws allowing suspects to be scanned without a warrant could be ‘abused by police’

Legal expert says wording of legislation is ambiguous and police powers need to be explicitly limited

The Guardian - AU

New funds for mental health system on brink of collapse

The NSW government has announced a significant funding boost for mental health in the upcoming budget as a report into the state's system delivers its findings.

AAP

Young surfer fatally stabbed in 'robbery gone wrong'

A 36-year-old man has been charged over the death of a young surfer death in a beachside car park on the NSW Mid North Coast.

AAP

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NSW police urged to improve mental health training after string of deaths involving vulnerable people

Parliamentary inquiry finds NSW mental health care is ‘reactive and crisis-driven’ because it is chronically and severely underfunded

The Guardian - AU

Blues shrug off Tallis barbs, insist Tedesco fits bill

Michael Maguire has insisted James Tedesco can adapt to NSW style of play for State of Origin I, while refusing to engage with comments from Gorden Tallis.

AAP

Tough penalties finally coming for state's work deaths

Industrial manslaughter will bring a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail and up to $20 million in fines under tough laws being introduced to NSW parliament.

AAP

Shopping centre tragedy sparks mental health funds rise

Additional funds will be directed to services for homeless people in NSW suffering from mental illness, following a mass stabbing that left six people dead.

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You can now be frozen after death in Australia. If you get revived in the future, will you still legally be the same person?

In recent weeks, Southern Cryonics – the southern hemisphere’s only cryopreservation facility, located in rural New South Wales – announced it had successfully cryopreserved its first patient.

The Conversation

Upper Hunter residents demand bigger chunk of coal royalties cash

Many Muswellbrook residents want royalties increased further.

Newcastle Herald

Two broken gas meters in seven months before deadly Sydney house explosion at Whalan

Investigation under way into cause of explosion at social housing complex in Sydney’s west that left one woman dead

The Guardian - AU

NSW banking on special ally for Origin I

Sydney's big wet could play right into NSW's hands for State of Origin I, with an already slippery Accor Stadium set to host an old-school slugfest.

AAP

Edwards stays in camp to help Blues prepare for Origin

Dylan Edwards has remained in the NSW State of Origin camp to help Michael Maguire finalise preparations for game one, despite being denied a dream debut.

AAP

Leaf thief: viral sensation Claude the koala returns to nursery to munch on seedlings in broad daylight

Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issue

The Guardian - AU

NSW enter Maguire mode as Queensland get need for speed

Michael Maguire's seven months of research with phone and blue jersey in hand has given NSW a State of Origin team built on work ethic and passion.

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Major construction to begin on Parramatta light rail

A $2 billion spend on the next stage of Parramatta's light rail will see a start on the build some say should be extended 3km to support growth in the area.

AAP

Mate's belief spurs Higgins to cusp of Origin history

Olivia Higgins says if not for the belief of Knights teammate Yasmin Clydsdale, she might not be lining up in the second match of the State of Origin series.

AAP

Woman identified in deadly unit blast as probe goes on

Investigators will probe the aftermath of a Sydney unit explosion amid claims residents smelled gas in the weeks preceding the deadly blast.

AAP

Support for harsher penalties over workplace deaths

A survey has found voters support harsher penalties and industrial manslaughter offences in NSW, but it will come too late for some workers who never came home.

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Newcastle Herald

'It really can happen to anyone': what is the price of a human life?

Mental health system under-resourced, reactive and crisis-driven.

AAP

Mavs stun Swifts in Super Netball

The Melbourne Mavericks have overcome the loss of star shooter Eleanor Cardwell to defeat the NSW Swifts by six goals.

The Guardian - AU

‘People prefer that we’d never close’: Eraring lifeline a mixed blessing for a coal community in limbo

The NSW government’s decision to extend the 40-year-old power station for another two years has some locals breathing a sigh of relief – but others are ready for a post-coal future

The Guardian - AU

Why a NSW farmer trapped under a ute called a neighbour, not triple zero, to get to her closest hospital

The town of Deepwater is in the Hunter New England local health district, whose largest hospital, at Newcastle, is six hours away

AAP

No point to prove as Tedesco returns to NSW side

James Tedesco has walked back into the NSW State of Origin camp ready to wear the No.1 jersey, adamant there were no hard feelings over his initial axing.

Newcastle Herald

Knights' NRLW star Yasmin Clydsdale on footy, teaching and farm life

'You have to just enjoy all the moments that you get given.'

AAP

Hamstring trouble ends Addo-Carr's Origin recall hopes

Hopes of a recall to NSW's State of Origin side for Josh Addo-Carr have been written off, with the hamstrung Canterbury winger facing up to 10 weeks out.

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