Let joy be unconfined! Working students now qualify for travel concessions. Photo by Kristy Coulcher. There was good news this week for tertiary students struggling to make ends meet. Many domestic students previously denied travel subsidies because they were doing paid work now qualify for concessions. Postgraduate students who were denied concessions because they did…
DetailsThe trawler that went aground off Cronulla on Tuesday was successfully freed by salvage crews at high tide early this morning. Salvagers had to pump 10 tonnes of water from a fish storage tank before the Challenge was light enough to dislodge without damage. A modest swell early this morning Thursday helped remove the vessel about…
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Police appealing for information about the assault of a skateboard rider in Sydney late last year have released a still image from CCTV of their suspect. The CCTV images of Oxford Street near Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, show the suspect started a conversation with the 21-year-old victim early on Friday, December 7, before grabbing the victim’s skateboard and hitting him…
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Lawyers for bladerunner Oscar Pistorius challenged the prosecution case against him overnight, pointing out multiple flaws in police work. The defence increased the athlete’s chances of being released on bail by forcing lead police investigator Hilton Botha to admit multiple police errors, weakening earlier claims that witnesses heard arguing, screaming and gunfire at Pistorius’s Pretoria…
DetailsThe Challenge aground off Cronulla. An attempt to refloat a 23.5-metre trawler that ran aground on a reef at Cronulla Point has failed. Last night a salvage team attached lines to the stern of the Challenge to drag it off the rocks early this morning at high tide. A Sydney Ports spokesman told AAP that the…
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South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius last night denied the premeditated murder of his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The 26 year old double amputee told a Pretoria bail hearing he did not intend to kill Steenkamp, but mistook her for a robber. In an affidavit read to the court by his lawyer, Barry Roux, Pistorius said…
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Photo by Mitch Duncan. A 49-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital with severe head injuries after being struck by a car in Western Sydney on Thursday evening. Police believe the man was crossing Sherwood Road in Merrylands at 6.20pm when a vehicle exiting the driveway of a fast food restaurant ran into him. The…
DetailsNSW has opened a third specialised drug court at Sydney’s Downing Centre. Defendants processed in the courts are intensely supervised and receive help to make profound changes in their lives after being transferred to a 12-month rehabilitation programme. Paul Hayes, deputy director of criminal law at Legal Aid NSW, welcomed the expansion of the program, which has…
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