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A spate of by-elections to replace up to five outgoing NSW MPs are unlikely to be held until February next year. Country NSW hospitals forced to care for sick patients without any ­doctors physically present in the building. The Nationals back Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s net zero emissions target by 2050. Wests Tigers’ director of football Tim Sheens has tried to douse the speculation over Luke Brooks via a club statement on Sunday night. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Year 12 students are at risk of descending into drinking, smoking and eating disorders as they battle deteriorating mental health. Hereditary disease genetic testing will now be covered by Medicare. A Sydney couple resell home they recently bought, with a hefty profit. Former NRL prodigy Luke Goodwin has spoken for the first time about the car crash that claimed Ben Alexander’s life in 1992. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Soaring property prices have turned more than a million NSW homeowners into millionaires. Boxing Day sales mayhem unlikely this year as retail struggles. Alec Baldwin seen traumatised after tragic set accident with prop gun. The Matildas’ have prompted other sports to move towards reporting into Sport Integrity Australia’s national framework. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NSW bounce back underway, with people in the state qualifying for up to $450 in vouchers. Premier Dominic Perrottet’s department pushed to block crucial evidence from being heard in public in a corruption probe into predecessor Gladys Berejiklian. Eddie Obeid was back in his own bed last night despite being sentenced to five years’ jail. NSW government is reportedly consider poaching the Formula One motor race from Melbourne. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A teen gangster and his innocent father are gunned down in a suburban street in broad daylight. Former Premier Mike Baird tells the ICAC Gladys Berijiklian should have confessed to her secret relationship with Daryl Maguire. Michael Slater has admitted himself into treatment after being charged with stalking or intimidating his former girlfriend. Former NRL star Sam Burgess has been cleared of allegations of domestic violence  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Premier Dominic Perrottet has backed controversial drug law reforms. The ICAC hears Daryl Maguire met with Gladys Berejik­lian while she was Treasurer where he raised his push to get millions of dollars for a Wagga Wagga shooting club. All adults in NSW will get a $50 voucher to spend on accomodation anywhere in the state. Penrith player Tyrone May is fighting for his future at the club. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Drug users caught by police with a small amount of drugs would be given a second chance and referred to intervention programs, under a bill being drawn up by cabinet ministers. Gladys Berejiklian was secretly grilled by the ICAC as Premier. NSW farmers are warning they urgently need 16,000 workers from interstate and overseas to deliver the current harvest. Push for The Everest to be given Group 1 status. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sydney’s cocaine addiction was evident on the first weekend after lockdown with a taxi driver among 17 people caught dealing or in possession of ­cocaine in just two nights of routine police operations across the eastern suburbs. Social media and reality TV shows have been blamed for a disturbing spike in violent attacks by schoolgirls, with the number of bashings committed at NSW public schools hitting a 20-year high. Premier Dominic Perrottet has resisted mounting pressure to ease more restrictions as NSW soared through the 80 per cent double vaccination threshold.  And in sport, the investigation into the shocking behavioural problems in Australian football will begin as early as this week, coinciding with the Matildas’ biggest stars returning home for the series against Brazil. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sporting coaches, high school teachers and parents will be offered suicide prevention training as part of a $130 million state government mental health package to tackle a rise in self-harm cases. An elderly doctor with a ­religious objection to vaccinations has come out of retirement to hand out hundreds of fraudulent medical exemptions to teachers trying to avoid mandatory Covid jabs. He’s kept silent for months about the fate of his fraudster wife Melissa Caddick, but now Anthony Koletti says he believes she was murdered. And Australian female swimmers cheated out of Olympic glory by East Germany’s notorious sports doping system from the 1970s and 1980s are in line to finally get the medals they deserved. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bumper crowds will be able to gather for the rest of the Spring Carnival with capacity increased to 10,000 vaccinated racegoers. Fake vaccination certificates are being used to allow people not yet double-jabbed to access venues and use services supposedly restricted to the fully immunised. Today show is fast closing the gap on Sunrise for  the nation’s top-rating breakfast show And Eased Covid restrictions will give home seekers welcome ­relief from the pressure cooker sales environment that drove up house prices by record margins during lockdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bombshell secret government documents reveal corruption allegations had previously been made to ICAC in 2018 about the controversial $5.5 million gun club project, now at the centre of next week’s hearings into the conduct of ­ex-premier Gladys Berejiklian. Concerns were raised about the hire-car company at the centre of the Delta outbreak months before one of its drivers tested positive to Covid. Terminally ill people are closer to being given the choice to die with a bill to legalise euthanasia introduced to NSW parliament. And in sport, Bruce McAvaney, the most respected voice in Australian sport, says the $15 million The TAB Everest has attracted its best-ever field for the Royal Randwick sprint on Saturday. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A corruption investigation into Gladys Berejiklian’s conduct will hear from newly elected deputy Liberal leader Stuart Ayres and former premier Mike Baird. Australia’s peak Muslim body has been condemned for inviting members to participate in a forum on Afghanistan that will include at least one member of the Taliban. Nuclear energy and the cost of building it in Australia is “definitely worth investigating” according to one of the nation’s top scientists, but would need political will to ever become a reality.  And in sport, an expansion poaching war has broken out over Cameron Munster, with Storm supremo Matt Tripp taking aim at new club the Dolphins in their planned pursuit of the Queensland Origin star. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A bold plan to turbocharge the production of clean hydrogen in NSW is expected to create more than 10,000 jobs within the decade while helping heavy industry to decarbonise. Australia must develop a nuclear industry for the sake of national security and to protect ourselves against China or any other potential foreign threat, the nation’s top blue collar union has declared. In sport, aspiring second Brisbane team the Dolphins are ready to capitalise on a market frenzy following revelations that star NRL trio Brandon Smith, Reed Mahoney and Anthony Milford are open to offers from the expansion franchise. And Australian spinner Ashton Agar has leapt to the defence of Justin Langer after the coach uploaded a cryptic post to his social media accounts following a “horrible” 2021 which included a player-led call for him to change his ways.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pill testing at events sends the “wrong message to young people,” the state’s police minister says, ruling out calls for the government to reconsider its stance after the ACT approved the nation’s first dedicated testing centre.  Small businesses, including tradies, will be able to recoup the cost of road tolls under an expanded scheme to provide rebates on state government fees and charges. Sydneysiders have been urged to “have a beer” and “get a haircut” to celebrate their freedom and support the state’s economic recovery  as new data showed NSW is on track to become one of the most vaccinated populations on earth. And trainer Les Bridge’s barrier draw wishlist has two entries as he prepares Classique Legend for his title defence in the $15m TAB Everest at Royal Randwick on Saturday. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hospitality venues brace for Sydneysiders to celebrate today like it’s New Year’s Eve. Today Olympic sprinter Rohan Browning will take off down the final straight against jockey Hugh Bowman at Royal Randwick. International travel to and from Sydney will resume within weeks if home quarantine for ­vaccinated travellers is fast-tracked. Cricket is holding its breath that DRS will be available for every Ashes Test this summer, after it was ruled out for the Big Bash. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lisa Wilkinson has revealed how she was sexually assaulted by her friend’s father when in high school. Cuts to the cost of childcare will be brought forward to March. A vaccine passport trial will begin in four different regions from Monday. Jackson Hastings says he’s returning to Australia and the NRL having redeemed himself overseas. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former deputy premier John Barilaro was clocked at more than 30km/h over the speed limit when he lost his ­licence. The very diaries that helped convict Kathleen Folbigg may now hold the key to overturning her convictions. The NRL Integrity Unit will question Penrith Panthers co-captain Nathan Cleary after his mates breached QLD border rules. Fans will be able to watch the NRL pre-season trial matches live from their loungerooms. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Australian Turf Club has made a fresh push to more than double the crowd at The Everest. Students across the state will be let out of lockdown sooner than expected with all grades returning to school in two weeks. The state’s police minister has told residents of the eastern suburbs to put an “end” to their cocaine addiction. Brisbane will have a second NRL club in 2023. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ben Roberts-Smith has accused Nine newspapers of paying a woman they labelled as his former mistress. The magic 70 per cent vaccination threshold has been met but Premier Dominic Perrottet will keep the weekend cancelled. Sydneysiders are racking up one million tolls every day. NRL expansion is set to face its final hurdle today. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NSW has declared it can rescue the Ashes. Dominic Perrottet is promising NSW a brighter summer after the darkness of lockdown. Paul Toole is set to be elected the Nationals leader. Former Australian women’s football players have revealed a toxic culture within the sport. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.