After 1.7 million online views and at least in person 27,000 visitors,curtains fell on Putricia’s famous livestream at midnight.
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Science

The curtains have closed on Putricia. Here’s what she looks like now

The public can no longer see Sydney’s celebrated corpse flower. But what happens next is extraordinary.

  • byAngus Dalton
Offensive graffiti sprayed on the front window of Jo Haylen’s electorate office on Saturday.
Antisemitism

Minister’s Sydney office vandalised in ‘cowardly’ attack

  • byChris Barrett
Emergency waiting room at a hospital.
Healthcare

Who pays for COVID’s victims? Ultimately,we all do

  • byThe Herald's View
Alice Luong (pictured front),Tristan Gill,Nate Grimm,Naomi Gill,,Elizabeth Luong and Freya Gill turn trash into treasure.
City life

The unconventional playgrounds emboldening children to take more risks

  • byMegan Gorrey
The government has made cuts to the NDIS to keep growing costs under control.
Letters

Labor inherited NDIS problems from Coalition

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Politics

Madison Fazio and Jonathan King
History

Their ancestor ruled Australia. Sex and servitude split the family

Australia’s third governor had children by his wife and mistress. Now their descendants meet for the first time to heal old wounds.

  • bySue Williams
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich
State Parliament

MP accuses NSW Police of leaking ‘confidential details’

Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich is concerned the leak will discourage members of the LGBTQ community from reporting hate speech.

  • byMichael McGowan
Premier Chris Minns has flagged plans to overhaul existing racial vilification laws.
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Antisemitism

Religious groups split on changes to hate-speech laws

  • byMichael McGowan
NSW Premier Chris Minns arrives to visit the scene of the Only About Children child care centre on storey Street in Maroubra which was damaged in an antisemitic attack overnight. Maroubra,NSW. January 21,2025.
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Antisemitism

Minns says antisemitism doesn’t start with a firebombing. Will his new laws find where it does?

  • byMichael McGowan
NSW Premier Chris Minns arrives to visit the scene of the Only About Children child care centre on storey Street in Maroubra which was damaged in an antisemitic attack overnight. Maroubra,NSW. January 21,2025.
State Parliament

Premier may ignore legal advice and push ahead with hate speech reform

  • byMax Maddison

Crime&Courts

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Crime

Court shown sickening footage of alleged stomp on off-duty cop’s head

  • byPerry Duffin
The statue of Captain James Cook in Randwick has been vandalised for the second time in 12 months.
Australia Day

‘Absolute mess’:Captain Cook statue vandalised ahead of Australia Day

  • bySally Rawsthorne
A young man is fighting for life after a coward punch in Newtown
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Crime

Two charged over attack on off-duty cop in Sydney’s inner west

  • byJessica McSweeney andSally Rawsthorne
Police have arrested a second man over the alleged arson and graffiti attack on Newtown Synagogue this month.
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Crime

Police make arrest in synagogue arson

Second man arrested after alleged attempt to set religious building at Newtown alight – Strike Force Pearl. 23 January 2025. Photo NSW Police
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Antisemitism

Man Tasered during arrest over Sydney antisemitic attack

  • byPerry Duffin
The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.
Antisemitism

Nine arrests,more than a dozen attacks:Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

  • byAmber Schultz
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Education

The new Wentworth Point High School on the banks of the Parramatta River.
Education

The suburb with no houses gets a $160 million high-rise school

  • byChristopher Harris
Education

9,729,900 days lost in one year:The shocking truth about our schools

  • byChristopher Harris
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Education

Has the plan to help more disadvantaged kids into selective schools failed? Here’s what the data says

  • byChristopher Harris

Health

Emergency waiting room at a hospital.
Healthcare

Who pays for COVID’s victims? Ultimately,we all do

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Illness

Deadly paralysing bacteria linked to bogus botox in Sydney

  • byKate Aubusson
Health

Travellers at Sydney Airport warned to watch out for measles

  • byAngus Thomson

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