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| UpdatedSydney Roosters prop Martin Kennedy has been provisionally suspended from the NRL over drug allegations.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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The Opposition says it backs the search for an emergency bore water supply, but not the proposed River Murray pipeline.
Topics: water-supply, state-parliament, broken-hill-2880, menindee-2879
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Three New South Wales south east local government areas are putting a proposed merger plan under the microscope to see if it is in the best interest of ratepayers.
Topics: local-government, cooma-2630, bega-2550, bombala-2632
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Labor asks the corporate watchdog to look into what it calls a "cover-up" over an investment bank's decision to edit a report on NSW government policy.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, privatisation-and-deregulation, nsw
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Find another job, leave winegrapes to rot or rip your vines out.
Topics: viticulture, agricultural-marketing, griffith-2680
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Hunter thoroughbred breeders says tomorrow's Golden Slipper Stakes is further proof of why Australia's horse capital needs to be protected from coal and CSG mining.
Topics: horse-racing, viticulture, mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, scone-2337, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedHunter New England Health has distanced itself from recent reports of sexual harassment within the medical fraternity.
Topics: health-administration, bullying, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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A Wiradjuri elder says since the closure of the Aboriginal Affairs Office in Wagga Wagga, services to the southern inland have ceased.
Topics: public-sector, aboriginal, regional, wagga-wagga-2650
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| UpdatedA truck driver is missing after a semi-trailer went over a cliff and burst into flames near Kangaroo Valley in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Topics: road, bowral-2576, kangaroo-valley-2577
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A Newcastle clinical psychologist says many veterans feel abandoned by the Australian Defence Force and that only compounds their trauma.
Topics: defence-forces, suicide, williamtown-2318, singleton-2330, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedMost New South Wales voters are supportive of existing anti-terrorism laws, saying they do not believe they have gone too far, according to Vote Compass.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, crime, police, nsw
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Liberal candidate for Maitland, Steve Thomson says he has no problem going to next week's election without being able to tell voters what the funding model is for the city's new hospital.
Topics: health, elections, federal---state-issues, maitland-2320, metford-2323
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| UpdatedThe Federal Member for Riverina, Michael McCormack, says the Commonwealth contributes in a number of ways to the social housing system in New South Wales, but it could do more.
Topics: housing, federal---state-issues, regional, wagga-wagga-2650
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Premier Mike Baird has defended his government's handling of mine approvals despite admitting he wants to personally understand land use conflict in the Hunter Valley.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, federal---state-issues, bulga-2330, newcastle-2300
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Hunter TAFE has issued a desperate plea to its staff to work overtime to help it deal with a massive backlog of student enrolments that have fallen foul of a new computer system.
Topics: education-industry, adult-education, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Lindt cafe in Sydney's Martin Place reopens this morning, three months after the siege that claimed the lives of two hostages.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedNewcastle horse trainer Darren Smith will learn his fate today when racing New South Wales racing officials sentence him over his role in a doping scandal.
Topics: horse-racing, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe Coalition's plans for a $30 million Broken Hill hospital upgrade has been met with support in the far west.
Topics: healthcare-facilities, state-parliament, nationals, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedNSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has vowed to permanently ban coal seam gas production in the Pilliga Forest in the state's north-west.
Topics: elections, mining-environmental-issues, oil-and-gas, states-and-territories, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, pilliga-2388, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedSurrounding yourself with wood products is good for your health, according to a study commissioned by environmental organisation Planet Ark.
Topics: forests, rural, industrial-design, environmental-health, mental-health, mens-health, womens-health, education, climate-change, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000
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The Baird Government has guaranteed 300 public sector jobs for Gosford over the next term, if re-elected.
Topics: elections, gosford-2250
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The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse has confirmed planning is underway for public hearings to be held in Newcastle next year.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320, muswellbrook-2333
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Geoff Toovey believes Manly's home ground advantage will account for the Bulldogs as Des Hasler returns to Brookvale Oval.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, manly-2095, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedBeekeeping in Australia is a small industry that contributes a great amount to the nation's agriculture.
Topics: beekeeping, agricultural-policy, weather, shepparton-3630, laura-5480, nabiac-2312, beechworth-3747, canberra-2600
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Thousands of child sex abuse victims will benefit from reforms that will make it easier for them to seek justice from their abusers, the New South Wales Greens announce as part of their election campaign.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, nsw