Sydney Spartans Armwrestling Club president Oz Caglar hosts weekly training sessions the backyard of his home in North Rocks.
City life

‘Test of strength dating back thousands of years’:Arm-wrestlers wanting to muscle in to the Olympics

From two guys in a Melbourne garage,arm-wrestling is growing in popularity and aspires for Olympic glory.

  • byAndrew Taylor
The sticker placed on patrons’ phones when entering the relaunched Chinese Laundry.
Phones

‘No phone rule’:The Sydney nightclub covering up cameras

  • byAndrew Taylor andMary Ward
NSW councils will be given millions of dollars to close streets for festivals,markets and concerts.
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City life

The state government wants to close streets for parties,but can councils afford it?

  • byAndrew Taylor
A 16-year-old boy has died after a car full of teenagers crashed in NSW’s Hunter Region,with the vehicle’s 17-year-old learner driver allegedly returning a positive roadside breath test,police say.
Tragedy

Boy,16,dies after car carrying five teenagers crashes into tree

  • bySarah McPhee
PM Anthony Albanese
Government grants

Inner West Council rejected the state’s housing plan. The PM gave them $2.6 million to do it again

  • byMichael Koziol
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Politics

The City Tattersalls Club at 194-204 Pitt Street,which is currently closed and being redeveloped into a a 50-storey mixed use tow. The club is being forced into a fire sale of its historic club to pay off debts caused by falling patronage and declining gaming revenue. Photographed in Sydney on June 27,2024. Photo:Dominic Lorrimer
Letters

Goodbye to the City Tatts club and its 130 years of history

Sydney’s Tatts Club is a city institution.

A pro-Palestine protest in Sydney in February. Labor organisers are expecting several thousand to demonstrate at the party’s state conference.
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ALP

NSW Labor braces for state conference threats after Payman defection

The premier has warned against any move to “smash up” the state conference,and put his own MPs on notice about party solidarity.

  • byMax Maddison
Inside the new Martin Place Metro station.
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Sydney Metro

A look back at Sydney’s Metro

Western Sydney University Bankstown City Campus GIF.
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University

‘A very curious deal’:The $340m uni campus with a $1.8b price tag

  • byPatrick Begley
Wes Fang and Dominic Perrottet.
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Factional politics

Perrottet-brokered peace deal saves NSW Coalition from split

  • byMax Maddison,Alexandra Smith andChristopher Harris

Crime&Courts

The X Factor star Mitchell Callaway is accused of murdering a baby girl in 2018 in the state’s central west.
Crime

X-Factor star accused of murdering a baby is ‘battling cancer,abuse from locals’

  • byPerry Duffin
Main:Jie Shao arrives at Downing Centre District Court on Thursday for her trial,accompanied by lawyers. Inset:Jean Huang
Courts

Chinese ‘tourist’ jailed over fatal breast surgery

  • byClare Sibthorpe andSarah McPhee
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Crime

CCTV released after three women attacked in Sydney robbery spree

  • byJessica McSweeney
Police are searching for a man who allegedly undertook several robberies while armed with a knife and a hammer.
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Crime

Manhunt after three women attacked in Sydney

Composite - In a supplied image acquired Wednesday 22 December 2021,shows images from the Shore School website of Dr Timothy Petterson who became the 8th Headmaster of Shore in January,2020 in an undated image. Pic - Supplied Generic of the Shore School in North Sydney on Dec 22,2021 Photo:Flavio Brancaleone/The Sydney Morning Herald
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Private schools

Former Shore headmaster takes legal action against school

  • byLucy Carroll
Melvern Kurniawan
Crime

Sydney University stabbing victim out of hospital,warnings of ‘toxic’ internet

  • byJessica McSweeney
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Education

Nadim Nsouli runs Inspired,a global network of more than 100 schools including Reddam House in Sydney.
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Education

‘We run the school’:The man behind Sydney’s top-performing Reddam House

  • byLucy Carroll
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘Full-scale offensive’:Sydney University restricts all student protests on campus

  • byDaniella White andLucy Carroll
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Private schools

Former Shore headmaster takes legal action against school

  • byLucy Carroll

Health

Chris Blake,CEO of St Vincent’s Hospital,Australia said the not-for-profit has been left with no choice but to terminate its agreement with NIB.
Health insurance

Thousands of patients face massive cost hikes as hospitals pull plug on NIB

  • byKate Aubusson
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Surfing

When Brett scalped himself on a remote island,a Learjet flew him to hospital

  • byJulie Power
Courts

Paul Kent guilty of street brawl as court rejects mental health claim

  • byPerry Duffin

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