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'Must remain open': Labor hails $2.5bn smelter bailout

Australia's largest aluminium smelter has been thrown a multibillion-dollar lifeline, saving thousands of jobs in a move hailed as a win for the working class.

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Historic $2.5bn deal secures NSW energy and 1,000 jobs

The funding package will be jointly funded between the state and federal governments.

Newcastle Herald

Meet Dusty Langby, the 12-year-old Australian boy preparing to walk 540km to Canberra to raise $1 million for rural children's healthcare

At just three years old, Dusty Langby was already learning what it meant to be a caregiver. After a tragic accident left his father with lifelong injuries, young Dusty stepped up to help around the family farm in Warren, a small town in central western New South Wales.

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‘Send food photos’: lobbyist paid for former premier’s brother to go to Fiji to avoid inquiry, Icac hears

Lobbyist Jeremy Greenwood gives evidence about allegations linked to Reformers at Independent Commission Against Corruption hearing

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Defibs still safe despite reported shutdowns, TGA says

Health authorities have defended the continued use of defibrillators in ambulances after a regulator stepped in to put a halt on sales of the devices.

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Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter gets $2.5bn bailout package from federal and NSW governments

Rio Tinto said in December it may cease operations at the Tomago aluminium smelter at the end of its current electricity supply contract

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Youth worker reveals glimpse into young extremism

Youth advisers have outlined youth-focused approaches to counter extremism, as an inquiry heard programs can succeed without strictly changing beliefs.

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A ‘body’ found in a suitcase was actually a sex doll. How did NSW police get it so wrong?

Officers – correctly – may not have fully unzipped the bag containing the lifelike doll to avoid destroying evidence, one expert says

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Morning Mail: Coalition backs One Nation policy, Bashar al-Assad sentenced to death, and what the RBA really believes

One Nation’s bid to bar Australians with terror links; Syria sentences former president in absentia

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Lobbyist for developer defends digging up dirt on MP

A corruption inquiry has been told details of a dirt file created about a former state minister which was intended to discredit the MP.

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Newcastle swims against the tide as council satisfaction slides nationally

Satisfaction still sits below the national average.

Newcastle Herald

Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade

Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders

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‘Body’ found in suitcase near Goulburn was actually lifelike doll with ‘bruises and grazes’

What was originally reported as a body found in Oallen on Sunday was ‘very realistic in the terms of looking like human remains’, NSW police say

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‘Wet, windy and wintry’: cold front to bring rain and potential flooding to parts of Australia

Front sweeping across southern Australia expected to bring strong winds and widespread rain over weekend

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‘Shame is the punishment’: as Icac delves into the shadowy Reformers, ‘whales’ are coming to the surface

The corruption watchdog is looking into allegations about Catholic conservative Liberals – but others are getting caught up in the hearings

Newcastle Herald

Who's in charge of dodgy building company's Hunter jobs? Not me, says nominated supervisor

Regulator launches investigation into who is overseeing builds.

The Guardian - AU

Minns said he wouldn’t ‘gloat’ about Icac hearings into the Liberals. Instead, he’s quietly taking out the trash

Amid revelations that could damage the opposition’s state election hopes, the NSW government dropped key documents on three contentious issues

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Texts suggest Angus Taylor ‘paid money to the Reformers … or was refusing to’, Icac inquiry hears

Jean-Claude Perrottet, brother of former NSW premier, asked about messages referencing federal opposition leader and factional group Reformers

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Fugitive developer offered $100K to Perrottet brother

Controversial property developer Jean Nassif dangled a $100,000 political donation in front of a former premier's brother, phone taps have revealed.

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Icac witness asked about ‘filthy schools money’ messages – as it happened

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'No one has been held to account': Coalition attacks Labor over Mater failures

Minister accused of 'ducking accountability and responsibility'.

The Guardian - AU

The Icac spotlight has shone on Dominic Perrottet’s brother – and it won’t be the last we hear from his family

Jean-Claude Perrottet was questioned at the Operation Rosny hearings about the actions of the NSW Liberals’ hard-right Reformers faction

Newcastle Herald

'Clique culture' revealed at Westpac helicopter service over workplace and safety issues

Confidential allegations released amid 'serious safety breaches'.

The Guardian - AU

NSW Liberal leader says ‘leaking is never good’ but defers call on Tudehope’s fate until after Icac

Kellie Sloane reserves decision on shadow attorney general’s future as Reformer Jean-Claude Perrottet tells inquiry group signed up members to ‘dodgy’ branches

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Mental health reforms key to Bondi Junction response

The NSW government has accepted the bulk of recommendations made in the wake of a stabbing attack, where six people were killed and many more injured.

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