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Mary Ward

Mary Ward

Mary Ward is state desk editor at The Sun-Herald.

Premier Chris Minns warned it’s not all “rosy” in the state’s hospital system.

Health cuts in ‘darkened rooms in Canberra’ will impact Sydney hospitals

The premier has warned the Albanese government the state’s hospital system is heaving and cuts to private health rebates will only make it worse.

  • Jessica McSweeney, Mary Ward and Michael McGowan

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Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) president Professor Jennifer Martin (left), with RACP president-elect Dr Sharmila Chandran in a file picture.

‘Truly bizarre meeting’: Police called to medical college vote

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has been in turmoil for months due to an ongoing dispute between its president and her elected successor.

  • Mary Ward and Angus Thomson
Joe Panarello from TJ Shoes is one of a number of tenants struggling at Greenwood Plaza in North Sydney.

How the metro killed a Sydney shopping centre

Greenwood Plaza, once a bustling thoroughfare with several international chains and a busy food court, has emptied out.

  • Mary Ward and Megan Gorrey
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In the 1960s, it was David and Karen. Now, these two baby names seem set to rule the 2020s

NSW’s top baby names for 2025 have been revealed.

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One type of school has been falling out of the top HSC results over the past 20 years.

These types of schools are becoming harder to find in the HSC rankings

The same 19 selective schools have placed in Herald’s HSC top 100 for the past 20 years. Other public schools have become scarce.

  • Mary Ward
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Redfern station’s AI-generated Christmas artwork to be removed

The scene featured a koala head on a kangaroo’s torso, a rodent with limbs not connected to its body, and kangaroos wearing bikini tops.

  • Mary Ward
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HSC subject enrolments.

The high-scaling HSC subjects students are abandoning – and the ones they are flocking to

Extension 2 mathematics will have its largest-ever cohort when the HSC begins on Thursday. But the picture isn’t so rosy for English.

  • Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
Jermaine Jones a Sydney construction worker has run 34 marathons around Centennial Park in 34 days for charity. Last one is Saturday. He ran out of annual leave so he’s been running after work every day, Centenial Park, Sydney, 25 September 2025. Photo Jessica Hromas

Like thousands of Sydneysiders, Jermaine ran a marathon last month. But he didn’t stop

Jermaine Jones will on Saturday complete 34 marathons in as many days, mostly by running laps around Centennial Park after a full day at work.

  • Mary Ward
Photographs of an Illawarra solarium business run out of two residential properties. The business, which charged $35 for 35 minutes in a dangerous sunbed, was recently busted by EPA investigators. 

‘DM to book’: The secret solariums operating inside suburban homes

More than a decade after the suntanning salons were banned in NSW, a fresh crackdown on covert operators is under way.

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‘Downsizer territory’: Who’s moving into Hyde Park’s apartment boom?

Luxury CBD living is popular in other world cities but Sydneysiders have largely shied away from living in the city’s centre.

  • Mary Ward