BY RAFAEL SANCHEZ-BAYO @bayo_sanchez Police have recorded 394 incidents involving replica firearms over the past five years, 90 of those involving violence. Fake firearms have been used in 42 armed robberies across NSW in the same time period and continue to be sold without any restrictions due to a gap in gun laws. Fairfax Media […]
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Breaking News | February 24
Patricia Arquette arrives at the 2015 Oscars ceremony. Photo: Disney| ABC Television Group/flickr Best Actress, worst comments? BY SOPHIE HUNTER Patricia Arquette used her win of Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars to promote feminism – but only for white women. Comments Arquette made backstage after the official ceremony excluded women of colour, […]
Breaking News | April 1
A humpback whale breaches off the coast of NSW. Photo: cweng50/flickr Australia wins whaling war By Constanza Ahumada The international court of justice ruled against Japan’s act of killing whales in the Antarctic, immediately putting an end to the slaughter. The Court laid in favour of Australia’s claim against Japan’s whale quest on […]
Podcast:Breaking news | March 21
For 189 years Millers Point has been a close, socially mixed community on the harbourside.Photo: City of Sydney Archives. News read by Mohammad Al-Azar, Mert Balkanli, Leon Elia, Kian Hall, Charlotte Mutoro, Athena Mylonas, Ripsime Ovsepyan and Viola Chen. Edited by Carolyn Cash.
Breaking news | February 25
Qantas will confirm on Thursday whether speculation about job cuts is correct. Photo: Graham Cook/flickr BY CASSIE DePEDRO Qantas job cuts Qantas is still silent on cutting up to 5,000 jobs in an effort to restructure their finances. If the figure is correct it will be significantly more devastating than the previous reported […]
Breaking news | February 18
David Beckham playing his final game for Real Madrid in 2007. Photo: Wikimedia Commons BY CASSIE DE PEDRO AND BLAINE BUCHANAN One dead and 77 injured after conflict on Manus Island Reports that one asylum seeker has died and another has been critically injured after a riot at the Manus Island detention centre […]
Breaking news | February 17
Manus Island detention centre. Photo: DIAC BY HUBERT WIDJAYA Terror attack in Egypt A bomb on a tourist bus in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula has killed more than five Korean passengers, the Egyptian driver and injured more than 30, military sources reported yesterday. Most of those on the bus were part of a tour group. […]
Breaking news | March 6
Mardi Gras party-goers caught with drugs BY CHLOE LAM Ninety six people have been charged for possession of drugs at the annual Sydney Mardi Grass ‘After Party’. On Sunday night, officers from Surry Hills Local Area Command and the Dog Unit conducted a four-hour long drug detection operation to uncover anyone in possession of drugs […]
Breaking news | March 5
Winter housing crisis expected BY REECE GORDON The number of homeless people is expected to rise this winter now that two of the government’s main housing initiatives, Common Ground and Platform 70, are at full capacity. The Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, called on all levels of government requesting further funding to accommodation as well as […]