Daily Telegraph News & Politics

New laws that make it easier for authorities to hack into ­social media accounts and change data and posts will be used within weeks... to target child sex abusers, terrorists and organised crime gangs.  Bondi Beach was bustling with Sydneysiders soaking up the sun yesterday... leading the chief health officer to express her “concern” that  people were flocking to the coast while residents of 12 hotspot suburbs do not have the same luxury.  Firefighters have been asked to prepare to drive ambulances as part of contingency planning in case Covid case loads overwhelm the paramedic workforce.  Panthers legend Greg Alexander has set up a halfback battle for the ages... by saying Parramatta’s Mitch Moses played “his best game of finals footy” yesterday which  “might even be his best game this year”.    For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Doctors have raised serious concerns about the “hospital in the home” Covid treatment system after 13 ­people have died at home since August 1... Sydney's few available homes during lockdown has seen multimillion dollar ­prices for properties you cannot even live in.  Boxer Harry Garside has emerged from his bronze medal boxing triumph at the Tokyo Olympics with a story of ­remarkable courage.  Wayne Bennett and Ivan Cleary have lit the fuse for an explosive finals battle ,with the rival coaches going hammer and tongs over the Penrith’s controversial kick-blocking tactics.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Television star Ian Stenlake has been charged with a number of offences over an incident in Sydney’s east earlier this year ….during which he allegedly verbally assaulted two police officers. New South Wales residents are one step closer to normalcy... with the onus now on us to get vaccinated to ensure pubs, restaurants and shops can open next month.  A mum from Sydney’s eastern suburbs who was stressed about her son’s ice addiction when she repeatedly stabbed him  in the back has avoided jail time.  Legendary Sea Eagle Brett Stewart has predicted he and champion Graham Eadie will be surpassed by Tom Trbojevic.... as the greatest fullback in Manly history.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au, we’ll have another update for you tomorrow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ICAC is preparing to hold new private hearings into Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s disgraced former boyfriend MP Daryl Maguire amid fresh scrutiny of a $5.5 million sporting grant he ­obtained for his electorate.  The widow of one of Sydney’s most notorious gangsters has launched a last-minute legal bid to block a Channel 7 series  about Pasquale Barbaro. The family of a terminally ill baby are pleading with the Queensland Government to show some compassion after being told they will have to split up to quarantine. The ARL Commission have confirmed the Rugby League grand final will be moved to Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium.... but it’s the fine print that’s revealed some good news for NSW fans.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NSW Treasurer has declared residents and businesses in Covid hotspot areas should get the same freedoms as parts of Sydney with low virus cases when restrictions ease.  Gladys Berejiklian has four times refused to say if she is being investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in relation to the activities of her former boyfriend Daryl Maguire.  Police who have identified a new suspect in the hunt for the suspected killer of William Tyrrell are liaising with Deputy State Coroner ….who has postponed handing down her findings into his disappearance.  It was once the club we used to hate but rugby league has fallen in love with the soaring Sea Eagles.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NSW Police have zeroed in on a new person of interest who they believe is responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of missing boy William Tyrrell.  Tears of joy and an incredible sense of relief at a remote property in the NSW Hunter ….after toddler AJ Elfalak was found by a chopper crew.    The surfer mauled by a great white shark off the NSW Mid North Coast has been identified as newly married Tim Thompson, whose pregnant wife has been left crushed by his death..  And Authorities are checking off the final steps to Sydney’s first drive-through Covid vaccination clinic.. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Horrified onlookers watched helplessly as a surfer – missing an arm – flailed in the water shouting “help me, help me’’ after being attacked by a shark on the NSW Mid North Coast  on Sunday.  Hundreds of searchers failed to find any trace of missing three-year-old AJ Elfalak near his Hunter Valley home yesterday as police seized a white ute from a neighbour’s property for examination. If you want to feel three decades younger, get vaccinated. That is the message from an infectious disease ­expert, who says vaccination can turn an 80-year-old into a 50-year-old. And in sport, Michael Maguire is fighting a lost cause to save his job at the Wests Tigers, with the troubled club already on the lookout for a new coach. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fans will be in the stands to watch a Socceroos World Cup match, a plan has been hatched to have crowds at The Everest race meeting, and pubs and clubs are gearing up to welcome back drinkers as NSW prepares for an ‘Octoberfest’ partial  return to normal life. Nineteen children as young as six, were the target of a man and a woman in country NSW who allegedly photographed, drugged and in some cases forced their victims to perform sexual acts to produce child ­exploitation material. Simon Pryce’s first Father’s Day has been years in the making, but baby Asher was worth the wait. And in sport, after 25 weeks, 190-games and over 1,500 tries, the last spot inside the NRL’s top-eight comes down to 80-minutes of anxiety. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

They are the words every locked down Aussie is desperate to hear – but rest assured, normal life will return. That’s according to social researcher Mark McCrindle, whose new report Australia Towards 2031 looks at what life will be like in the next 10 years. A botched rollout of mobile speed cameras has ­resulted in motorists in half of the state failing to be fined. Sydney home prices have risen so quickly they can be measured by minutes and seconds. And in sport, among the public posts to Latrell Mitchell’s Instagram account, following his sickening hit on Roosters player Joseph Manu last weekend, were these: “Biggest grub ever! Disgraceful hit on one of your mates. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Boys and girls as young as three years of age should be asked which gender pronouns they prefer to use, according to an official guide produced by the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been condemned for “damaging public confidence” by misquoting Covid-19 death rate modelling and scaremongering about the illness infecting young children.  A wild brawl in which men and boys armed with golf clubs, baseball bats and knives went toe to toe in a quiet Western Sydney street has left a teenager dead and two others fighting for life in hospital. And in sport, Sydney Roosters star Joey Manu has forgiven Latrell Mitchell for the brutal tackle that ended his season and vowed they will remain friends. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A high-profile Sydney lawyer has urged the community from his bed in a hospital Covid ward to get vaccinated after he was a week too late in getting his jab.  Vaccine hesitant workers living in Sydney’s Covid-19 areas of concern who can’t work because they choose not to get the jab will still be able to pocket $750 a week in government support.  A Sydney mother has blasted a minimum three-year jail term given to her ex-partner for fatally shaking their baby boy as not being long enough. And in sport, Parramatta coach Brad Arthur has bristled at accusations he has surrendered a possible top-four spot by giving up on beating the red-hot Penrith Panthers. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Payroll tax cuts are set to be boosted for businesses with turnovers of less than $10 million until at least the end of the year as the NSW government stretches pandemic support into the summer.  Most Australians want state borders thrown open during the pandemic despite the threat of Covid-19 infections, with vaccination the key to freedom. Notorious murderer and suspected serial killer Daryl Suckling has died in jail taking to his grave the secret of where he buried his one confirmed victim – although cops believe he was responsible for more. And in sport, Latrell Mitchell’s uncle has revealed the South Sydney star’s partner has received death threats in the wake of the Joey Manu incident. For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lockdown-weary Australians are worried more about the pandemic’s toll on jobs and mental health than any surge in the Covid-19 virus. One of Australia’s most ­notorious criminals has denied he threatened the son of racing patriarch Bill Waterhouse to keep quiet about the cold case murder of Sydney horse trainer George Brown.  To sport, Sydney forward Jaydn Su’A told teammates, officials and club coaching staff he was insulted by Trent Robinson at halftime last Friday night – an allegation the Roosters coach angrily denies.  And the AFL has moved Toby Greene’s tribunal hearing to Tuesday morning as the Giants are flying from Launceston to Perth in the afternoon when it would normally convene.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day, take out a subscription atdailytelegraph.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Health-care workers have little hope for the coming months after Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged citizens to pay no mind to the “rollercoaster of case numbers”. Two of NSW’s biggest prisons are in lockdown and 21 others on high alert. It is one of Sydney’s most iconic live music venues where a generation moshed and jived to everyone from Elton John to Nirvana, but Selina’s nightclub at the  ­Coogee Bay Hotel is destined for the bulldozer. Sydney Roosters skipper James Tedesco has issued a blunt warning to Latrell Mitchell saying “You don’t want to be breaking people’s faces” and it doesn’t matter if it’s an accident or not.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in Sydney and regional NSW are getting jabbed in droves, with 60 per cent of people now partially vaccinated in more than 50 local government areas. In the first of a series that reveals the lives of players after NRL, James Phelps tells how Beau Ryan went from journeyman winger to professional funnyman and TV celebrity.  Neurosurgeon Charlie Teo has hit back at “appalling and inaccurate” claims he operated on the wrong side of two patients’ brains. Spring will awaken Sydney’s next auction superstar suburbs, with new research uncovering the 10 postcodes primed to boom between now and Christmas. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Controversial neurosurgeon Charlie Teo is considering walking away from the operating theatre, convinced the NSW Medical Council’s decision to “slap” him with restrictions is a sign his enemies are “going in for the kill”. Emily Seebohm opens up about her eating disorder to encourage a positive change in her much-loved sport. Property ­experts say if you want to sell your home, now is the time to do it and cash in. The Storm shoot for 20 straight wins tonight to eclipse the record of Jack Gibson’s fabled 1975 Eastern Suburbs team and, once and for all, put the final exclamation point on Craig Bellamy’s coaching legacy. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Residents living around Western Sydney’s incoming aerotropolis will have a direct line to voice their concerns with the government. Two of rugby league’s most powerful Indigenous leaders have joined the push to get Australians vaccinated against Covid. A proposal to allow hairdressers to reopen in certain parts of Sydney was rejected by cabinet amid concerns of political backlash if the move went ahead. Gang rapist Mohammed Skaf could learn today if he will be freed from prison. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

George Burgess is alleged to have thrown a phone onto a road during a road-rage incident involving another man in Wollongong on Monday night. The state’s hospitals are crumbling under growing pressure from weeks of Covid outbreaks and rising cases that have led to hundreds of staffers forced into isolation In recent times of drought and flood, city slickers have dug deep to support their country cousins — and now the bush folk are returning the favour.  Protesters who vandalised Parliament and the Canberra home of the Prime Minister have declared that the mere $20 penalties for their acts are a message from the courts to “keep going” with more property damage.  For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The state’s Year 9 students have ­recorded their worst performance for reading in NAPLAN examinations since the tests began. A mother of three children has become the youngest woman to die from Covid in NSW, with the deadly virus also leaving her husband fighting for life in hospital.  People of west and southwest Sydney aredriving the state’s increasing vaccination coverage but hotspot local government areas could miss out on “extra freedoms” set to be announced this week. Sydney’s Lance Franklin insists his focus is on taking down the GWS Giants in their AFL elimination final and not his impending 1000-goal milestone as he prepares to bid farewell to family again. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NRL star Andrew Fifita woke from an induced coma and ­instantly his eyes began darting across the ICU ward of the Royal Brisbane Hospital.  NRLW star Millie Boyle says she was simply having a “kiss in the bathroom’’ with Canterbury’s Adam Elliott before they were kicked out of a restaurant by security.  It is unlikely all students will head back to the classroom this year, with the state’s top doctor confirming children’s vaccination rates will be a key factor in opening classrooms. The number of Covid cases from a super-spreader party in Maroubra last weekend has exploded to 36, with a police investigation now underway into who hosted and attended the event. For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.