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The problems at one northern beaches school are just the tip of the iceberg as the state education system grapples with budget cuts and frozen funds.
Australia’s population swelled by a record 651,200 people last year. There are signs migration is slowing and births continue to tumble.
Australia’s 30th PM was nominated for the ultra-exclusive club by John Howard and Bruce Baird in 2022. But so far,he has had no luck.
The opposition leader’s sudden shift caught Liberals off guard,and it may cost them dearly with voters.
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A Sydney Christian school fired their music teacher because of her sexuality in the weeks since the government threatened to shelve new laws that would protect LGBTQ staff from discrimination.
Lynette Joy Simms’ disappearance in 1982 became one of Sydney’s most enduring mysteries. Decades later,her husband was convicted of her murder.
Kyle Chalmers hurt his back so badly earlier this month he thought he wouldn’t be able to swim at Olympics trials. After four cortisone injections,he was able to get on the blocks.
Tickets started at $US10,000 when Holly Valance threw open the doors to her Chelsea mansion to help raise funds for the ex-president’s 2024 White House campaign.
Last week,the anti-corruption commission said it would not launch an inquiry into robo-debt. That decision is now the subject of an investigation by the NACC’s inspector.
The popular pair will co-host Monday’s Experts,a sports entertainment panel show that is taking the place of Q+A.
The Dolphins have held on after a stirring Cronulla comeback,which included a try to Sione Katoa in the final 30 seconds.
In an unusual announcement,Chelsea first posted a video on their social media account in which an emotional Kerr appeared to be saying goodbye to the club.
The self-proclaimed Prince Neptune is chasing an Olympic berth,but time is running out.
By deciding to lose weight,the former tennis champ turned commentator is still inundated with online body commentary.
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The 10-storey apartment building on Fujimi Street – which translates to “Fuji view” – has 18 housing units ranging from $670,000 to nearly $1million.
The first half of season three reached all sorts of heights. But with the same old secret and a resoundingly boring man now at the centre of the story,how can it continue pleasing us?
Bud Sullivan’s goal is to play with,rather than be replaced by,Jarome Luai despite the Tigers allowing him to explore other options.
The Origin contest might have been ruined,but the NRL can’t go soft on acts of foul play.
League columnist
Police Commissioner Karen Webb has to deal with more allegations of police officers inappropriately using force after an elderly man was hospitalised with a fractured arm.
Vivid came close to disaster when thousands of people were trapped by a bottleneck. It wasn’t the first time the festival has ventured near catastrophe.
The battle over this building is seen as a landmark in the struggle between residents and developers over the future of Kings Cross,Elizabeth Bay and Potts Point and its continued gentrification.
A series of messages on social media were at the heart of Jarryd Hayne’s successful appeal against his sexual assault convictions.
Homicide squad detectives are appealing for information after Guy Haymes was found with serious head injuries in a Manly unit,later dying in hospital.
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases,including a novel that delves into the silencing and suppression of women’s stories and a biography of “the Barrier Reef’s first martyr”.
Ian Michael’s production takes us deep into the nightmare of Jane Harrison’s acclaimed play,Stolen.
Mark Butler is seeking an urgent explanation from the Chiropractic Board of Australia after its controversial decision to allow practitioners to recommence spinal manipulations on babies.
Building a new plane soon could help the company regain ground it has lost to Airbus. But doing so would be difficult,and risky.
An article by The New York Times about the arrival of Starlink internet in the rainforest took on a life of its own. In a few days,the web was rife with misinformation.
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Experts say other interim measures,such as rent caps and slowing immigration,are needed to ease the pressure on renters until 1.2 million needed homes are built.
Sydney’s property market has slowly come off the boil since the start of the year,but do the softer neighbourhoods spell what’s coming for the rest?
When Oprah was rushed to hospital,many assumed it was linked to her use of weight-loss drugs. But is that fair?
Style Editor
The 86-year-old founder of Texas Renaissance Park is looking to the future in the oddball and delightful documentary Ren Faire.
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Lote Tuqiri will give his old coach Michael Maguire some selection advice at South Sydney’s 10-year premiership reunion on Saturday … but hopes he doesn’t take it.
Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow’s length-of-the-field effort proved the difference at PointsBet Stadium.
Kaylee McKeown and Ariarne Titmus were among the winners on night four of the Australian swimming trials in Brisbane.
Rugby Australia boss Phil Waugh says NRL-bound Carter Gordon will still be considered for Wallabies duties this winter.
St George Illawarra are willing to offer Damien Cook a two-year deal but would require South Sydney to contribute to his salary in 2025.
A mischievous suggestion that Australia could manipulate results to squeeze England out of the World Cup has prompted apoplexy. It’s unlikely to happen.
Sports columnist