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Drone footage taken of a shark off Coogee Beach in Sydney on Saturday.

How an AI-powered early shark warning system could protect Sydney beaches

An alert system using autonomous drones to detect sharks could be in place by summer, scientists say.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Max Maddison

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NSW MP Mark Latham has listed his Mount Hunter home for sale.

Mark Latham lists sprawling estate for sale with $2.4 million guide

The NSW MP quietly listed his home on Sydney’s outskirts, but denies it’s linked to growing legal costs in his feud with political rival Alex Greenwich.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Michael McGowan
The state government will spend $2 million on a permanent memorial at Bondi.

Millions pledged for permanent memorial to honour Bondi victims

An $8 million recovery package including funds for a future permanent memorial will be included in this month’s state budget, as Sunday marks the six-month anniversary of the attack.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Merrylands is the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis.

The suburb at the epicentre of Sydney’s violent crime crisis

Youth workers are putting themselves between vulnerable teens and the crime families willing to pay them for brazen acts of violence.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
Nurse Talei Williams at RPA.

‘I don’t earn enough to rent anything’: How Sydney’s grand housing vision was whittled away

Nurse Talei Williams should be benefiting from affordable housing. Instead, a 90-minute commute is her only option.

  • Max Maddison
Many cancer patients are already using marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of chemotherapy.

Chris Minns is taking an uncharacteristic risk with new drug driving laws

The famously risk-averse NSW premier has announced “commonsense” changes to the laws around THC and driving. Not everyone is happy.

  • Michael McGowan
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NSW Police spends millions on recruitment but women make up around a quarter of graduates

NSW Police faces dire shortage of female officers despite multimillion-dollar blitz

NSW Police faces a chronic staffing problem as the force battles crises of public confidence, internal culture issues and serious understaffing.

  • Amber Schultz
Former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will face prosecution over allegations they circumvented donation laws in Chris Minn’s seat of Kohgarah a decade ago

Two Labor figures face charges over alleged illegal donations to premier

Former MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will both face prosecution over allegations they were involved in a scheme to circumvent NSW donor laws in Premier Chris Minns’s electorate 11 years ago.

  • Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
"No one brings their underpants on site and washes them at work.": Union official alleges labourers are living within a major construction site.
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CFMEU warns of union investigation after video shows worker belongings

"No one brings their underpants on site and washes them at work.": Union official alleges labourers are living within a major construction site.

The unfinished building in Burwood.

‘Disgusting conditions’: Workers allegedly living on luxury Burwood high-rise site

“No one brings their underpants on site and washes them at work,” a CFMEU official said in a video walk-through of the Victoria Place development.

  • Max Maddison