Match between the Giants and Richmond pushed back by about 30 minutes due to red-bellied black snake
An AFLW match between Greater Western Sydney and Richmond in Blacktown was delayed after a snake was spotted sunning itself in the grass.
The red-bellied black snake appeared to be taking advantage of the hot weather that parts of Australia’s south-east have been experiencing.
Continue reading...A man has been charged over the Blacktown incident that has left a 15-year-old in a serious condition
A teenager has been placed in an induced coma after allegedly being dragged 2km through the streets in Sydney’s west before falling from a car.
According to New South Wales police, shortly before 7pm on Friday a 19-year-old man sitting in a car and a 15-year-old boy began arguing on a street in Blacktown.
Continue reading...Residents cautioned to minimise heat exposure as the mercury in eastern states forecast to reach up to 12C above average
Australians can expect a hit of summer-like weather over the weekend, with temperatures expected to reach above the mid-20s in Melbourne and 30C in Sydney, prompting NSW Health to issue a heat alert.
Inland Australia will crack the mid to high 30s while the south-east corner of Western Australia will be the only region to hover below 20C.
Continue reading...Air quality measures at Randwick were ‘very poor’ according to the official gauge, with residents advised to stay indoors
Sydney awoke to a blanket of smoke over parts of the city on Monday from hazard reduction burns at the weekend.
Air quality degraded to “very poor” conditions in Sydney’s east, with residents urged to remain indoors and keep their windows and doors closed until conditions improved.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Metrics reflect gross addition to supply, even as unit blocks in affluent Sydney suburbs are being replaced by luxury single properties
Luxury homes built on the site of former unit blocks in Sydney are counting towards council targets for new dwellings, even where they have reduced the available housing stock by displacing multiple properties.
A swathe of interwar apartment buildings in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and inner city face the wrecking ball, to be replaced with modern residences, as Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Unlikely alliance pushes for more medium-density housing of the sort typically found in inner-city suburbs
The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says he is open to a proposal to pre-approve “pattern-book” housing designs that can be rolled out in Sydney suburbs – an idea being championed by an unlikely alliance of unions, big business and universities.
The Housing Now group, launched on Monday, argues that 30 suburbs need to be, in effect, transformed into inner-city Surry Hills by adding higher density houses and medium-rise apartment buildings.
Continue reading...Only debris remained after crews were unable to extinguish the blaze that engulfed the multimillion dollar vessel
Police and fire investigators are looking into the cause of a blaze that sank a $30m super yacht owned by Australian-British businessman Michael Hintze in Sydney on Saturday night.
Police said emergency crews were called to a dock fire on Clarke Road at Woolwich on Sydney’s lower north shore just after 8pm on Saturday night to find the 195-foot (59-metre) vessel, the Andiamo, fully engulfed.
Continue reading...Woman, 24, and her brother, 15, died after their Toyota Echo was hit by a Mercedes in Heckenberg smash
Police have arrested a 20-year-old man after the deaths of a woman and her teenage brother in a high-speed, three-car crash in Sydney’s south-west.
Two other men allegedly involved in the crash are being sought by New South Wales police.
Continue reading...Police called to Monterey at 9.50pm Friday night following reports a car had crashed into a tree
The driver of a car that crashed in Monterey on Friday night, killing two children, has been charged over the horror smash, and will face a bedside court hearing on Sunday.
The 33-year-old driver, from Beverly Hills, has been charged with two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death, and one count of causing bodily harm by misconduct.
Continue reading...Greens MP says it is ‘unacceptable’ that results not made public as Minns government faces calls to abandon nets
The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries has kept hidden the results of surveys it conducted to gauge community opinion on shark nets, as the government forges ahead with the controversial deterrence strategy.
The department has not published the surveys for the past two years and has not released the results to two upper house MPs, environmentalists and Sydney’s Randwick council despite their requests for them.
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Melbourne lord mayor threatens to cancel Federation Square viewing site due to rowdy behaviour of small group of ‘idiots’
And sticking with the flares, Melbourne’s lord mayor, Sally Capp, has threatened to cancel the live viewing site at Federation square due to the rowdy behaviour of a small group of supporters.
If we could find those idiots and make sure they don’t attend, then Fed Square will be going off again, but unfortunately sometimes the few ruin it for the rest of us.
Continue reading...Many weather stations in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart clocked their highest July temperatures ever as the country’s winters get hotter
Dozens of longstanding temperature records tumbled across Australia during a warm July.
Across the country maximum temperatures were overall about 1.2C above the long-term averages in July and all capital cities except Canberra were warmer than average, Bureau of Meteorology data shows.
Continue reading...Road blocked off in Arncliffe with hazmat officers, but authorities refuse to comment on whether nuclear material was found at the address
The Australian Border Force has raided a home in Sydney’s south amid reports nuclear isotopes have been found.
ABF officers were understood to be at the unit in Kelsey Street in Arncliffe executing a search on another matter when they discovered the potentially hazardous materials.
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Warren Mundine said he has kicked two people off his no campaign group Recognise a Better Way, one of which for allegedly making an antisemitic comment.
I’ve actually kicked several people off our campaign in regard to their comments and I intend to keep on doing that.
That’s just between us and the couple of people we had sent off. I don’t appreciate racist comments … All they know is I got rid of them and I don’t accept any racial comments from anyone in regard to these issues.
… It wasn’t particularly about Aboriginals, one was a very antisemitic comment and I’m not gonna wear that crap.
When I talk about treaties, when I talk about constitutional recognition, it is in regard to treaties that are signed between the commonwealth government and First Nations peoples.
… I believe in treaties between the First Nations and the commonwealth and at that, and I put it in that context.
I was involved in the beginning … and then after it got further down the track in regard to [what] it was looking at, [then I said] I don’t support that.
It has to be the First Nations, it has to be the traditional owners who make those agreements. I can’t speak for other people’s country, and they can’t speak for my country.
Continue reading...Canberra man Muhammad Arif charged after Kuala Lumpur-bound Malaysian Airlines flight turned around on Monday because of alleged disturbance onboard
A man accused of making a bomb threat on an international flight out of Sydney airport on Monday afternoon has refused to leave his police cell to face court.
Canberra man Muhammad Arif, 45, has been charged with making a false statement about a threat to damage an aircraft, and for failing to comply with cabin crew’s safety instruction.
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Continue reading...Health minister says professor and WHO advisor was ‘an incredibly calm, articulate voice at a time that was very frightening’
Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, the epidemiologist who guided Australians through the Covid-19 pandemic, has died at the age of 70 from brain cancer.
McLaws died in her sleep on Saturday night, her husband Richard Flook said in a statement to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Continue reading...One of the main factors contributing to the unusually high temperatures is the warm ocean conditions, a BoM meteorologist says
Unseasonably warm weather swept across the eastern states this weekend, with Sydney hitting 25.2C on Sunday, with high temperatures set to continue.
Parts of the country were expected to reach temperatures about 8C above normal for July on Sunday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Continue reading...State government yet to make a decision as it seeks consultation, while Waverley mayor calls for ‘better options’
The debate over shark nets at Sydney’s beaches has resurfaced as several councils, including the one responsible for Bondi beach, push for a more modern way to protect swimmers this summer.
The nets are due to be in place at 51 beaches between Newcastle and Wollongong in less than five weeks. But the state government says it will not make a decision on whether the nets will be rolled out until it hears from eight coastal councils.
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Continue reading...Commissioner Karen Webb says targeted hits are ‘sad indictment’ on city as investigators work to bring situation under control
Sydney detectives are struggling to contain the city’s escalating gang war and are facing a “wall of silence” despite two people dying in separate shootings over the past five days.
The recent spate of shootings started a month ago when the prominent underworld figure Alen Moradian was shot dead in broad daylight at Bondi Junction.
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Continue reading...Police confirm body found among debris off Watsons Bay a week after accident that also killed art dealer Tim Klingender
The body of missing tech entrepreneur Andrew Findlay has been recovered from water off Sydney’s east coast a week after a boating accident that also killed his friend, prominent art dealer Tim Klingender.
New South Wales police confirmed on Thursday that Findlay’s body had been retrieved not far from where that of Klingender, 59, was found floating among debris off Watsons Bay.
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