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Pearly prose from the western shoreline

And a volunteer with great appeal.

Rider Joe Curtin falls with a bronco horse at a combined rodeo,branding,campdraft and gymkhana weekend in Birdsville. Many competitors travelled for days from isolated cattle stations to try their skills against other jackaroos and jillaroos.
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The SMH year in pictures,2024

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Letters

We are still paying cost of Howard’s housing failure

The bridge comes alive at midnight.
New Year

Extraordinary numbers reveal how Sydney welcomed the New Year

  • byJessica McSweeney andRiley Walter
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The wonder of special FX

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Politics

Violence spikes on New Year’s Day.
Domestic violence

Why the first day of the year is the worst day of the year

For many,January 1 is a day to make New Year’s resolutions. But for some,the day has a devastating,violent side.

  • byAlexandra Smith
The Minns government’s signature plan to increase housing density has yet to spur new supply
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The plan to solve Sydney’s housing crisis that had only one application

A key pillar of Premier Chris Minns’ commitment to easing the housing supply shortage,transport oriented development zones have yet to spur new supply.

  • byMichael McGowan
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Education

Planning for schools must be front and centre of government policy

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How density might double:An artist’s impression of masterplans and rezonings finalised for TOD-accelerated precincts.
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Education

This Sydney school is full and turning students away – before 3255 new homes are built nearby

  • byAlexandra Smith
Homes with defective work are often not being rectified in an acceptable timeframe.
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Construction

Home builders are defying the Building Commission’s orders at an alarming rate

  • byMax Maddison

Crime&Courts

NSW Police released these images of a man wanted over an alleged attempted break and enter in Sydney’s south-west on December 31,2024.
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Crime

CCTV released,man on the run after police shot at in possible gangland hit attempt

  • byJessica McSweeney,Amber Schultz andRiley Walter
John Curtis took his neighbour to court over palm trees,shown inset,that he alleged blocked the view from his Darling Point home.
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Courts

The palm trees,the harbour views and the multimillion-dollar mansion

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
Police render first aid to shooting victim David Khou.
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Crime

Neighbours’ desperate attempts to save victim of alleged Sydney gangland shooting

  • byAmber Schultz,Penry Buckley andJessica McSweeney
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‘Doing a tester’:The man who gave a sex worker fentanyl thinking it was cocaine

  • bySally Rawsthorne
The Baby Bellies packaging,left,and Aldi’s Mamia packaging on the right.
Courts

How Aldi was caught out in ‘flagrant’ copying of a Sydney brand

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
Police will investigate the man’s death as a “critical incident”.
Police

Man dies after allegedly attempting to enter vehicles at knifepoint

  • byCarrie Fellner
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Education

A student claims the school council has breached its duties under the terms of its charitable trust by planning to admit girls.
Private schools

The boy who is suing his private school

  • byChristopher Harris
HSC

HSC students receive university offers:Search our database for cut-off scores

  • byCraig Butt,Christopher Harris andCindy Yin
HSC

The state’s top schools for HSC mathematics revealed

  • byLucy Carroll andNigel Gladstone

Health

A rolling GIF of artist’s impressions for the new Rouse Hill hospital,which is due to open around 2029.
Hospitals

This hospital will cost $700 million. There’ll be nowhere to have a baby

  • byAngus Thomson
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‘Opera House on your doorstep’:Pitch for foreign doctors to plug NSW Health holes

  • byAngus Thomson andKate Aubusson
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Australia cannot afford to ignore these 1100 – or 13.4 million – women

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