The Turnbull government promised in 2018 to gift two Black Hawk helicopters to the RFS.
Aviation

The two Black Hawk helicopters restricted from helping in a disaster

The NSW Rural Fire Service is spending millions retrofitting two choppers,but it won’t be able to use them for floods,bushfires and other disasters.

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
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Opinion
Column 8

Debating Albo’s dress sense. It’s a tie

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Letters

Climate change is more than just an election issue

Lara Bowden,10,playing in the mud in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred,at Skennars Head in northern NSW
Extreme weather

‘We need you’:NSW’s plea to rely on Defence in natural disasters

  • byMatt Wade andChris Barrett
Scott Hanley,team leader of strike force Kilo,NSW Fire and Rescue running drills in Coraki
Extreme weather

What’s it like to get sucked into floodwater? Scott jumped in to find out

  • byAngus Dalton
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Politics

NSW Premier Chris Minns,Minister for Emergency Services Jihad Dib and Lismore MP Janelle Saffin joined nervous Lismore residents to watch the river rise at the Browns Creek pumping station earlier today.
Extreme weather

She swam to save lives in 2022. History is repeating itself for this NSW MP

Lismore MP Janelle Saffin helped save a man as floods ravaged Lismore in 2022,but it’s her approach to politics that two premiers rave about.

  • byMax Maddison
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says international students should not be viewed as ‘a problem to be capped’,as they are crucial to the state’s economy
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International students

‘Not problems to be capped’:NSW treasurer defends international students

International education is second only to coal in terms of NSW’s export industries. Would a cap on overseas student numbers put that at risk?

  • byAlexandra Smith andMatt Wade
President Donald Trump,Elon Musk of the Department of Government Efficiency,and Vice President JD Vance.
Letters

Values and dignity trump image and posturing

Rebekah Keukenmeester,whose 10-year-old daughter Bridgette was murdered in 2020. She was granted an inquest after directly appealing to the state coroner.
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Courts

‘The system isn’t working’:Backlog in coroner’s cases leads to delays,fewer inquests

  • byMichael McGowan
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said the state must prioritise growth in 2025.
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State Parliament

The boom industries NSW must rely on to avoid a grim decade

  • byMatt Wade andAlexandra Smith

Crime&Courts

Mohamad Addouh is accused of a hit-and-run that left a teenage boy in a coma in Bass Hill in Sydney’s southwest.
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Crime

Alleged hit-and-run driver ‘made no effort to assist’ boy dragged under car

  • byClare Sibthorpe
A man has died from injuries sustained during a break-in at a home in Penrith.
Crime

‘Very frightening’:Man dead after ‘targeted’ home invasion

  • byPenry Buckley
Alan Jones outside court in December.
Jones investigation

Alan Jones hit with further indecent assault charge,bringing alleged victim count to 11

  • bySarah McPhee
A picture of the man wanted after two women,aged in their 80s,were sexually attacked during a string of break-ins in Merrylands,in Sydney.
Crime

Manhunt after women sexually attacked by knife-wielding intruder

  • byPerry Duffin
A young boy filmed from the backseat of a car during a street race in Sydney’s south before the vehicle,driven by Jimmy Martin Brito,left the road and hit a tree,killing the boy and his brother.
Courts

Phone videos captured boys’ squeals before street race ended in ‘utter destruction’

  • bySarah McPhee
A young boy filmed from the backseat of a car during a street race in Sydney's south before the vehicle,driven by Jimmy Martin Brito,left the road and hit a tree,killing the boy and his brother. SOURCE:NSW District Court
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Crime

Phone captured street race moments before deadly crash

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Education

The 2025 SMH School Summit.
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Education

The major NAPLAN change coming to schools

  • byNick Newling
SMH schools summit

SMH Schools Summit 2025 as it happened:Prue Car speaks after funding deal,selective schools in the spotlight

  • byNick Newling
Editorial
Education

Comprehensive schools carry a disproportionate burden of disadvantage

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Health

Intermittent heavy rainfall from Cyclone Alfred made for wet work for the employees of Brads Butchery in Lismore as they evacuated their workplace.
Extreme weather

How Cyclone Alfred is impacting Northern NSW

  • byKayla Olaya
Crime

This serial rapist is earmarked for release,but system doesn’t know when or where he’ll go

  • byPerry Duffin
Healthcare

Veterinary surgical equipment found in Sydney cosmetic clinic accused of putting patients at risk

  • byKate Aubusson

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