The Latest Breaking News from Sydney

Second teen charged over Sydney stabbing

An 18-year-old is the second person to be charged since a teenage boy walked into a western Sydney police station with stab wounds eleven days ago.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

Locals protest Aboriginal centre closure

Funding woes have forced an Aboriginal community hub in Sydney to shut its doors but advocates are determined to campaign for the local institution to remain.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

Inquest hears of desperate struggle to care for elderly residents during COVID outbreak at Newmarch House

A Newmarch House worker tells an inquiry about the desperate struggle to provide care for vulnerable residents as COVID-19 spread through the Western Sydney facility, resulting in 19 deaths.

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

Boss argued with son before being killed

Hasan Dastan argued with his son prior to being brutally murdered in his Sydney mechanics business in December 1995, a jury has been told.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

More sex abuse charges for swim coach

More charges have been laid as part of ongoing investigations into alleged historical sexual abuse by former Sydney swim coach Dick Caine.

AAP · Aug 2, 2022

Grazier Brendan Cullen swaps outback lakes for open water with English Channel swim

Kars Station is 12 hours west of Sydney, 500 kilometres from the nearest beach and one of the unlikeliest places to train for a swim across the English Channel. But that did not deter Brendan Cullen, who completed the attempt over the weekend.

ABC News · Aug 1, 2022

Susan Varga's Hard Joy explores the possibilities and limits of memoir

Historically, memoir has been a genre for older authors, reflecting back on their lives, but in recent years there has been an increase in life writing that is tied to a set of ideas or a political agenda.

The Conversation · Aug 1, 2022

Sydney news: Former NSW Premier John Barilaro plum job review outcome due 'very shortly'

MORNING BRIEFING: The New South Wales Premier says an independent review into the appointment of John Barilaro to a lucrative trade role in New York could be handed down by the end of the week.

ABC News · Aug 1, 2022

Sources reveal contents of Canterbury apartment where Saudi sisters, Amaal and Asra Alsehli, found dead

The women are believed to have died about a month before their bodies were found in June in a Sydney apartment.

ABC News · Aug 1, 2022

Australian House Prices Are Falling At Their Fastest Rate Since The GFC So WTF Does That Mean?

Congratulations, guys! Property analysts reckon house prices across Australia are falling at their fastest rate since the global financial crisis hit in 2008.But there’s a catch.Prices have really only dropped from “exorbitantly expensive” to “slightly less exorbitantly expensive”, according to new data from CoreLogic.The data showed that as at 31…

Pedestrian.tv · Aug 1, 2022