Blacktown mayor Tony Bleasdale died on a flight home from China.
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Sydney councils

Mayor of Sydney’s biggest council dies on flight home from China

Tony Bleasdale,a Labor Party veteran,was returning from a delegation to cities in South Korea and China when he died. He was 77.

  • byMichael Koziol
Heavier rain is about to hit Sydney after a week of drizzle.
Weather

Think this week’s been wet? It’s about to get turbocharged

  • byAngus Dalton
Secondary Principals Council president Craig Petersen
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‘It sounds bizarre’:Why being a principal is more challenging than volunteer firefighting

  • byChristopher Harris
Shereen Kumar’s body was found dumped in Dural bushland in 2022.
Courts

Shereen’s partner pleaded for help when she went missing. He now admits he killed her

  • bySarah McPhee
“We’re not a charitable organisation,and we’ve got to survive”:Ex-Venues NSW chairman Tony Shepherd,who stepped down last year.
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Sydney stadiums

‘We’re not a charity’:Former SCG boss defends dumping of guest passes

  • byMichael Koziol
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Politics

Former RTA chief executive Paul Forward said the traffic chaos on the Rozelle Interchange and Anzac Bridge was predicted a decade ago.
State Parliament

Rozelle Interchange 2.0:Former RTA boss warns more traffic chaos is coming

A repeat of the Rozelle Interchange-type fiasco is looming on the Warringah Freeway,north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge,a parliamentary hearing has been told.

  • byMichael McGowan
Deputy Premier Prue Car said attitudes of men towards women had to change and schools had an important role to play in that cultural shift.
Domestic violence

NSW promises emergency domestic violence response ‘in days’

Speaking after an urgent cabinet meeting,Deputy Premier Prue Car highlighted crisis accommodation for women escaping violence as a top priority.

  • byAlexandra Smith
Service providers in Newcastle have become so stretched by a lack of housing options that they are now offering secure carparks for women fleeing domestic violence.
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Domestic violence

Women forced to live in tents,sleep in car parks to escape violence

  • byAlexandra Smith,Michael McGowan andPerry Duffin
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Letters

New domestic violence focus is too little,too late

Judy Hannan and local journalist Cristian King.
ICAC

How letter to the editor exposed a fake identity and earned an ICAC referral

  • byAnthony Segaert andMax Maddison

Crime&Courts

Shereen Kumar’s body was found dumped in Dural bushland in 2022.
Courts

Shereen’s partner pleaded for help when she went missing. He now admits he killed her

  • bySarah McPhee
Carly McBride was killed in a horrific act of domestic violence,her mother has urged the country to confront the reality of under-resourced services,particularly outside Sydney.
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Domestic violence

Carly was looking for help. Instead,she found the man who killed her

  • byPerry Duffin
Thousands attended the funeral of Molly Ticehurst in Forbes on Thursday.
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Domestic violence

Australia needs to ditch its dinosaur attitudes – but Molly Ticehurst shouldn’t have paid the price to make it happen

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Crime

Sydney teen wanted ‘something catastrophic’ for Jews and Assyrians,court told

  • bySarah McPhee
Mehreen Faruqi and Pauline Hanson outside the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday.
Courts

It’s not nice,not polite,but not racist:Hanson’s lawyer defends One Nation leader

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
Toni TIki’s murder remains unsolved.
Crime

‘The night she was killed we were robbed’:Loving mother killed and dumped in beachside suburb

  • byJessica McSweeney
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Education

School systems would need to hit higher attendance and NAPLAN targets under the expert panel’s report.
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Schools

School students missed more than 9 million days of learning last year. Here’s why

  • byLucy Carroll andNigel Gladstone
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘Part of who we are’:Why Sydney Uni vice chancellor allows protest camp to stay

  • byDaniella White
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘No-go areas for Jewish students’:Pro-Palestinian university camps grow

  • byChristopher Harris

Health

Chief executive Teresa Anderson is leaving Sydney Local Health District.
Health

Inner-city hospitals boss departs after turbulent 12 months

  • byAngus Thomson
Letters

A DV survivor’s lament:Are women any safer now than 30 years ago?

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Children's Health

‘The cough that keeps on giving’:Why your child keeps getting pneumonia

  • byAngus Thomson

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