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Much of NSW could be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week.
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Sydney to feel a slight reprieve before it sizzles for Australia Day
Much of NSW will be sweltering under severe to extreme heat into next week and areas of Sydney such as Richmond and Penrith possibly reaching temperatures in the low 40s.
NSW pushes for South Pacific travel bubble, but federal government says there is ‘no timeframe’
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there was “no reason” why travel bubbles couldn’t be opened between the Pacific and New Zealand well within the next 12 months.
NSW lags Christmas jobs surge with warnings of the JobKeeper March cliff
Australia’s post-pandemic job’s recovery continued to December but NSW bucked the positive trend, shedding 17,100 jobs in the month.
NSW won’t be Super Rugby AU whipping boys, vows new Waratahs captain
Jake Gordon is the new Waratahs captain and he has a message for those who say NSW won’t be a factor this Super Rugby season – “I don’t care.”
‘Expensive brain fart’: Cost of dam project may triple, documents show
The cost of NSW’s biggest dam project could blow out to $2.1 billion, or more than triple the original estimate, delivering what is likely to be the most expensive water […]
Bassett joins NSW Swifts for training ahead of Constellation Cup
The Australian Diamonds captain and former GWS star has been training with the Giants’ fierce NSW rivals ahead of her move to New Zealand.
Heatwave to sear holidaymakers ahead of Australia Day
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a severe heatwave to set in over Friday to Sunday with extreme conditions expected in some areas along the NSW coast.
‘She is a hero’: Mother drowns saving her son on NSW beach
A day after celebrating her 50th birthday with those closest to her, Leonie Jackson died saving her son from a rip on Sunday along the South Coast.
‘It’s beautiful’: Indigenous national anthem wins over ex-RFS commissioner
Shane Fitzsimmons said in an Australia Day awards address for NSW recipients that he had in recent months heard the national anthem sung in a local Aboriginal language.
Hopes of reopening border to Sydney still alive, despite seven new NSW cases
Testing is underway to help NSW experts link the seven cases back to known clusters. If they can, Sydney will remain on track to meeting Queensland’s border rules.
NSW would see ‘distinct disadvantages’ in moving hotel quarantine to rural areas: Minister
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has shot down suggestions of moving the state’s hotel quarantine system to the regions as the Queensland government considers processing returned travellers in mining camps.
NSW’s mutant coronavirus strain cases double in a week
NSW has recorded 13 cases of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant that prompted an urgent review of Brisbane’s hotel quarantine system.
‘Skip in their step’: Bin-busting grain harvest reviving rural towns
Grain growers along the eastern seaboard reaped record winter crops this season, with timely rain across the grain belt in NSW, Victoria and Queensland after a run of dry years.
Coronavirus updates LIVE: Sydney’s northern beaches no longer a COVID-19 hotspot as NSW records just one new local case
Sydneysiders will be waiting weeks for the Victorian border to reopen, while human rights lawyers have called on the Victorian government to explain why thousands of people stranded for almost […]
NSW residents stayed at hotel linked to dangerous new COVID-19 strain
NSW Health is urgently tracing residents who stayed at a Brisbane hotel that is being evacuated by the Queensland government after six cases of a highly contagious strain of coronavirus […]
Call for more clarity on border closure triggers
New permit system gives no certainty to Victorians stranded in red zones in NSW and Queensland, human rights lawyers say.
Sydney facing weeks of closed borders with Victoria as unknown cases grow
Sydneysiders will be waiting weeks for the Victorian border to reopen if NSW’s southern neighbours adopt the same approach applied to them of wanting no new COVID-19 cases for 14 […]
The game helping NSW students improve marks and get into uni
Decades of studies found students involved in a new classroom behaviour game did better on tests, were more likely to get into college, and were less likely to smoke or […]
Tensions over border closures rise as Victoria insists it warned NSW
Victorian health officials told an Australian Health Protection Principal Committee on December 31 that the state was “strongly considering” a border closure, minutes show. At 3.30pm, the announcement came.
Coronavirus updates LIVE: Three new cases in NSW as lockdown lifts in northern beaches; Victoria, Queensland record zero local transmissions
Brisbane’s residents remain in lockdown, while Sydney’s northern beaches open. The federal government, meanwhile, has reassessed the international arrivals cap as quarantine systems come under review.
Hopes grow for stranded Victorians
Positive COVID news in NSW sparks hopes that stranded Victorians could be heading home soon while Queensland and the Commonwealth both defend Victoria’s hotel quarantine management.
The unpopular advice that led to the closure of the NSW border
The advice was going to be unpopular but it was crystal clear: in the absence of widespread coronavirus restrictions in NSW, a border closure was the only option.
NSW hotel quarantine tightens amid rising cases in returned travellers
NSW recorded one new locally-acquired case on Saturday, linked to the Berala cluster in western Sydney.
NSW on alert as family tests positive to South African COVID-19 mutation
A family of four have become Australia’s first COVID-19 cases carrying a highly contagious mutation from South Africa as Brisbane begins a three-day lockdown.
Renters face financial strife while stuck in NSW due to border closure
Sleeping in the car is looming as the only option for stranded Victorians who have spent thousands on emergency accommodation in NSW on top of rent for homes they can’t […]
Extended Sydney ban prompts fears for tourism industry
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has urged Queenslanders to reconsider travelling to NSW or Victoria.
‘Purely people trying to get home’: Drivers head to Birdsville to skirt NSW
Travellers are going bush to avoid NSW border issues, but the trend has prompted warnings from seasoned locals.
Victorians stranded in Queensland can now take the direct route home
Some have already taken the long way round – via the Birdsville Track – but Victorians will be allowed to drive home through NSW, provided they don’t dawdle
Mourners stranded on wrong side of border by ‘callous and insensitive’ rules
Victorians with dead or dying relatives have found themselves trapped in NSW and ignored by health authorities.