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Banks hit with profit crunch as customers shift deposits

Bank margins will continue to dwindle in the first half of this financial year, analysts say, as customers move their savings into higher-interest offerings.

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Population

The proof that Minns’ housing policy is right call

Sydney’s population crush is coming down heaviest on western Sydney and it is skewing housing across the city.

Australian ‘Jihadi Adam’ wanted over alleged murder of UK ex-soldier

British former soldier Daniel Burke was killed in Ukraine last year.

An Australian-Algerian jihadist has been named as the main suspect in the murder of a former British paratrooper found shot dead.

Building defects across Sydney.

Interactive: Search here for buildings with defect notices across Sydney

Dozens of orders for developers to fix defective apartment buildings in Sydney have been issued over the past three years. This is where they are.

Well, wasn’t that all totally predictable?

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I appreciate this affair is probably one that many busy readers have not engaged in. But in my view this story matters a great deal because it goes to three key points. 

Top chef Josh Niland is closing two high-profile venues this weekend

After several years of rapid expansion, chef-restaurateur Josh Niland has announced the sudden closure of two of his businesses.

Souths storm back to lead with Wighton try; Addo-Carr out

Souths storm back to lead with Wighton try; Addo-Carr out

The traditional Good Friday clash comes with some extra spice as the Rabbitohs battle to avoid a 0-4 start to the season against a Dogs side coming off a big win.

‘It’s not a war’: The seismic shift about to hit world tennis

‘It’s not a war’: The seismic shift about to hit world tennis

The “war” over a radical new direction for professional tennis is anything but, says Australian Open boss Craig Tiley in this interview about the future of the sport.

Rugby will be a winter sport forever - or will it?

A few years ago I would have been hostile to even contemplate a switch to summer to align with the northern hemisphere. Now I am merely neutral, not to mention curious.

Paul Cully
Paul Cully

Rugby columnist

Casa Bonita is celebrating its 50th birthday this week.

The creators of South Park bought a restaurant and it’s impossible to get in

Trey Parker and Matt Stone bought their favourite place to celebrate birthdays during the pandemic. Now there’s a waiting list of 100,000.

Labor faces one of its biggest tests yet, from a man known only as ASF17

Labor faces one of its biggest tests yet, from a man known only as ASF17

A person in immigration detention cannot be released just because they fear persecution in their birth country, the federal government will argue in a High Court challenge.

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City life

‘Dull and mainstream’: Melbourne, your street art and laneways are overrated.

Melbourne’s laneway art has long been a tourist attraction, but is the appeal starting to wane?

Parklets and painted “shared streets” aren’t working. If that’s the best we’ve got, Melbourne’s reputation as a leading liveable city is in trouble.

Prue Blake
Prue Blake

Comedian and former urban planner

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Substantial salads

Five crowd-pleasing salads to make this Easter long weekend

Get your grains in with salads like the popular protein-packed Cypriot grain salad.

Impress family and friends with these vibrant, flavourful bowls.

I completely stuffed up in a meeting. Should I resign in embarrassment?

Not being able to explain something under unusual, difficult or simply unexpected circumstances isn’t evidence of incompetence or incapability.

Jonathan Rivett

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The new-look Dry Dock in Balmain.
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Balmain

This new-look Balmain boozer feels like an entirely new venue. So, how’s the food?

There’s no chicken schnitzel, but there is a juicy pork chop at The Dry Dock. Just don’t wear your thongs.

How do you make your mark when your parents are high achievers? This is how Rose Jackson does it

Rose Jackson reads every letter sent to her by a resident in housing commission accommodation.

The rising star in the Minns government looks to her ABC journalist mother Liz for inspiration.

There’s only one thing to say about this novel - read it

Melanie Joosten’s third novel is a sure-footed story of two young suffragettes.

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NRL 2024

South Sydney need a win against Canterbury on Good Friday.

Jason Demetriou has won a grand final from 0-3 before. All is not lost for Souths

The South Sydney coach should know what can be achieved after an awful start to a season. He helped pull off the ultimate NRL fairytale.

Happy cats: Penrith prevail for a ninth win straight win over the Roosters.
Analysis

Penrith are marching to a fourth straight title. Is their dominance killing the NRL?

The Penrith Panthers have become a relentless, insatiable winning machine. But is this necessarily a good thing?

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Planning

Councils swoop on wiggle room in development plan

New planning controls are due to be imposed in April, but documents reveal the government will allow councils another six months to devise their own plans around some train stations.

Good Friday ushers in perfect Easter weather in Sydney – but a warning to campers

Easter long weekenders are in for warm and dry weather across the state.

Warm and sunny conditions are forecast across much of the state this Easter long weekend.

Sydney’s Shore school mourns death of year 11 boy

The Sydney Church of England Grammar School’s main campus in North Sydney.

The year 11 boy died after apparently suffering an anaphylactic reaction to food while travelling home from a school sports function with his family.

‘No confidence’: Newington College old boys revolt at council meeting

‘No confidence’: Newington College old boys revolt at council meeting

Former Newington College students have passed votes of no confidence in its old boys union, school council and headmaster at a major alumni meeting.

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Crime

Mother’s body covered in mystery acid burns before death, inquest told

Monika Chetty was found with burns to 80 per cent of her body.

The body of former nurse Monika Chetty was covered in burns, which were untreated for weeks. But no one knows how she got them.

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Idris Elba voices Sonic the Hedgehog’s sidekick in <i>Knuckles</i>.

The best new shows to stream in April

Our guide to the best of what’s on the streamers and free-to-air this month.

Nam Le in Melbourne in February.

Nam Le returns with poetry, but the question is: Where’s his novel?

Sixteen years after The Boat, his barnstorming book of short stories, Nam Le has surprised publishers and readers alike with a book of poems.

Politics

Just when Dutton is winning, he sounds like a sore loser

Dutton calls Albanese weak. Albanese calls Dutton angry. Each is trying to pin a label on the other. But the strange thing is that Dutton makes it so easy for his label to stick.

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Shohei Ohtani.

The mystery of baseball’s billion-dollar man, his interpreter and the betting scandal that rocked US sport

Shohei Ohtani’s perfect image has been besmirched by allegations of a $US4.5 million bank transfer to an illegal bookmaker in California.

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NRL round 4 LIVE: The Fox returns from injury for Bulldogs clash with South Sydney

The traditional Good Friday clash comes with some extra spice as the Rabbitohs battle to avoid a 0-4 start to the season against a Dogs side coming off a big win.

Super Rugby struggles to escape the gigantic shadow cast by the NRL and AFL.

Rugby will be a winter sport forever - or will it?

A few years ago I would have been hostile to even contemplate a switch to summer to align with the northern hemisphere. Now I am merely neutral, not to mention curious.

Paul Cully
Paul Cully

Rugby columnist

Some of the countries and key players behind world tennis’ transformation - Aryna Sablenka, Lew Sherr, Novak Djokovic, Craig Tiley, and Alex de Minaur

‘It’s not a war’: The seismic shift about to hit world tennis

The “war” over a radical new direction for professional tennis – between the cashed-up Saudis and the four grand slams – is anything but, according to Australian Open boss Craig Tiley in this interview about the future of the sport.

Happy cats: Penrith prevail for a ninth win straight win over the Roosters.
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NRL 2024

Penrith are marching to a fourth straight title. Is their dominance killing the NRL?

The Penrith Panthers have become a relentless, insatiable winning machine. But is this necessarily a good thing?

Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora face off in Las Vegas.

Pitbull v praying mantis: The danger man Tszyu must beat en route to boxing immortality

On Sunday in Las Vegas, Tim Tszyu will face an opponent eerily similar to the one his father, Kostya, fought at Parramatta Stadium in 1996.

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Andrew Webster

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Lalakai Foketi back at training with the Waratahs this week.

A Wallabies star heard a ‘pop’ in his neck. He feared he may not run with his kids again

Waratahs centre Lalakai Foketi has spoken about a scary injury that saw him rushed to hospital last month.

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