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King's Birthday 2025 Honours List

More than 500 people from politics, showbiz, charity, sport and business are recognised in the general division of the 2025 King's Birthday Honours List.

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Australian navy ship accidentally blocks wifi across parts of New Zealand – as it happened

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Operation Jhaniele: Swifts set for ultimate challenge

From once having the best netball job in the world, NSW midcourter Verity Simmons now has a giant task ahead of her as she opposes Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard.

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Setback for Minns government as controversial workers’ compensation bill sent to inquiry

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, who opposed the inquiry, said NSW’s compensation scheme was going backwards by $5m a day

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Fireworks on way to ensure Territory Day isn't a fizzer

A territory's explosive celebrations are back on track after a seized shipment of fireworks was released, ensuring the beloved event is not a fizzer.

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Moderate Liberals say the party has a choice – be a far-right rump run by octogenarians or move to the centre

Alan Stockdale’s comments about ‘assertive women’ have thrust the battle for control of the NSW division back into the spotlight – and it’s not pretty viewing

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Liberal Party Leaders Slam Senior Member’s Comments About ‘Assertive Women’

A senior Liberal leader is getting dragged for out of touch remarks made to the party's NSW women's council this week.

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'Bad process': contentious workers comp reforms delayed

A bulging compensation scheme, that would cost taxpayers $5 million a day if left unreformed, a government says, is being further examined in a probe.

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Push to reopen old mines in NSW in global race for critical minerals

The Dorrigo Plateau was used for antimony mining until prices collapsed in the 1970s. Now exploration has begun again – but locals are concerned the heavy metal may impact the water supply

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NSW gamblers losing $24m to poker machines every day, analysis shows

Wesley Mission says the ‘devastating impact deepens every day’ with western Sydneysiders accounting for $2m an hour lost to pokies

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Chalmers says cheaper cigarettes will not solve illegal tobacco boom, dismissing NSW premier

Minns to propose cut at next health ministers’ meeting, joining Victorian government in blaming high excise for organised crime spike

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NSW Labor trying to woo conservative crossbenchers to pass controversial workers’ compensation bill

Chris Minns warns of $2bn budget hole if bill curtailing psychological injury claims fails

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People with severe mental illness are waiting for days in hospital EDs. Here’s how we can do better

On ABC’s 4 Corners this week, psychiatrists and nurses have warned New South Wales’ mental health system is in crisis. They report some patients with severe mental distress are waiting two to three days in emergency departments for care.

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NSW Coalition and unions unlikely allies against Labor’s ‘nasty laws’ to curtail workers’ compensation claims

Opposition leader says Minns government’s bill to change threshold for psychological injuries will ‘punish the most severely injured workers’

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Two plays that show this Raider can answer Origin SOS

Corey Horsburgh is willing and able to answer Queensland's State of Origin SOS and two gutsy plays show what Billy Slater has been missing.

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Psychological injuries at work are now taken seriously, which is good, but it’s costing billions. So what is NSW proposing?

Why is the Minns government rushing to get its changes to workers’ compensation laws passed – and what’s at stake for the psychologically injured?

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It never rains or it pours: Australia suffers two weather extremes in May

Parts of eastern NSW recorded wettest May on record as rainfall in Victoria and South Australia was 70% below average for the month

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'Massive' increase driving smokers to the black market

Progressive increases in cigarette taxes have dented smoking rates and boosted government coffers, but a surging black market is prompting calls for a rethink.

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Decades of searching and a chance discovery: why finding Leadbeater’s possum in NSW is such big news

Until now, Victorians believed their state was the sole home for Leadbeater’s possum, their critically endangered state faunal emblem. This tiny marsupial is clinging to life in a few pockets of mountain ash and snow gum habitat in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

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Insurance cost warning after disasters hit bottom line

The cost of natural disasters has set the federal budget back $2.2 billion, but experts warn cyclones and floods will push up insurance premiums.

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Natural disasters cost Australia’s economy $2.2bn in first half of 2025, new Treasury analysis shows

Wild weather, including Cyclone Alfred and floods in NSW and Queensland, significantly slowed retail trade and household spending

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Cauchi’s mass murders put harsh spotlight on failings of mental health and police systems

Funding shortfalls and inadequate services are letting down people in psychiatric crises, the Bondi Junction stabbings inquest hears

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Critically endangered possum found in second state

Ecologists have discovered a "needle in a haystack", finding a rare possum in a national park in a state it was previously thought to be extinct.

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Flood victims wait in hope for future-proof solutions

Flood victims are crying out for solutions to help prevent the further decimation of their communities by future extreme weather events.

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