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Thin blue line as police force struggles with vacancies

A wage increase and other initiatives to attract more officers are yet to shift the dial at the nation's biggest police force, where 2470 positions are vacant.

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'Promise to Jack': parents warn about fatal knife crime

Hard truths about dabbling with deadly weapons are being delivered by the parents of slain teen Jack Beasley after an escalation in youth stabbings.

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Slow uptake in GPs prescribing ADHD medication

Barely a trickle of GPs have trained to prescribe ADHD medication despite reforms designed to save patients the expense of seeing a specialist psychiatrist.

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Blue Murder at 30: how the miniseries transfixed Australia – and inspired death threats and bootlegs

Based on the real-life crimes of Neddy Smith, the 1995 two-parter was a ‘love story’ between a corrupt cop and a notorious crook. Everyone knew it would be huge

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Farmers still waiting on flood 'rapid' recovery grants

A state agriculture minister has conceded the government's delivery of financial aid to farmers hit by May's devastating floods has been too slow.

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NSW prison phone call costs made it hard for Chris to stay connected to his family. Advocates say they should be free

Reform advocates argue call costs are prohibitive and risk isolating inmates further and leading to problems on release

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Winter delivers final blast of cold weather, bringing snow and strong winds to Australia’s south-east

‘Vigorous’ front that crossed South Australia, Victoria and NSW has now cleared out into Tasman Sea, BoM says

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Sydney’s new international airport opens next year. But you might have to catch the bus to get there

Public transport to Western Sydney international airport seems likely to be fragmented and indirect from many parts of the city

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Former NSW police officer who lost her arm after a car accident awarded $2.3m by the court

County court judge found physical and psychological injuries from the accident caused ‘complete destruction of her capacity for any form of meaningful remunerative work’

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Victoria warned to prepare for ‘destruction’ with severe weather and snow forecast

Gusts reaching up to 130km/h expected to push further into south-eastern states on Saturday, bringing showers, hail and thunderstorms

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'Serial offender' charges prompt calls to end logging

A "rogue" forestry agency has been hit with dozens of fresh charges over logging operations, prompting renewed calls for an end to the loss-making practice.

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NSW-owned Forestry Corporation charged with 29 offences related to failing to protect threatened species

Environment Protection Authority laid charges after investigation into accusations the corporation breached laws while operating in Tallaganda state forest

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Golden ticket to guns: police want Australia’s laws tightened to stem abuse of firearms licences

Recreational hunting is considered a genuine reason for holding a gun licence – but authorities say the system is too easy to exploit

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Looming crisis for NSW’s regional galleries averted with $15.4m in state arts funding

Labor announced on Thursday Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program will provide financial assistance for 62 organisations statewide

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Overcrowding in NSW hospitals ‘worst’ some doctors have seen as winter illnesses clog emergency departments

State health minister Ryan Park says there have been more than 45,000 presentations to EDs over the past five days

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No time to stow the brollies with soggy spring forecast

Spring has not yet sprung but forecasters say a soggy season awaits much of Australia, with parts tipped to receive heavy rainfall and flooding.

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Social housing not just a 'nice thing to do'

A housing minister says it was a mistake not to promote a major social housing initiative as a significant economic stimulus package.

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Zipp 353 NSW wheelset review: Do we really need live tyre pressure monitoring?

The 353 NSWs are good all-rounders with a competitive weight, but the AXS pressure sensor isn't a game-changer.

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Larrikin dad remembered as inquest searches for answers

A meat worker who died at a small rural hospital after Q fever and a lung clot went undiagnosed has been remembered as a loving, playful dad.

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Snow flurries forecast across four states as cold weather fronts push through Australia’s south-east

‘Burst of wet and windy weather’ on the way signals chilly start to spring for much of the country

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Plan to finish forgotten Woollahra train station and build 10,000 homes won’t combat Sydney’s affordability crisis, critics say

‘If this just becomes a very high-end market development … it’s not going to do anything,’ University of Sydney academic says

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Man charged after elderly woman dies in 'tragic' fire

Police have charged a relative of a 77-year-old woman who died in suspicious circumstances after a unit fire on the NSW Central Coast.

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‘Blindsided’: father of Port Arthur massacre victims says NSW hunting bill will take a ‘jackhammer’ to gun control

Walter Mikac, who lost his wife and two daughters in the 1996 shooting, warns that Labor-backed Shooters party bill will weaken national firearms agreement

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Elderly woman's death in house fire 'absolutely tragic'

Police are interviewing a relative of a 77-year-old woman who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a unit blaze on the NSW central coast.

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Buckling rails and lines underwater: how Australia’s ageing train networks are crumbling as the climate changes

Last week’s torrential rain disrupted several Sydney train lines, in what is becoming a familiar story for commuters. Almost one in five trains in New South Wales ran late over the past year, and floods in May also saw a temporary closure of the North Coast line.

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