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• Breaking news on North Epping, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - breakingnews

  

  North Epping, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ... Epping is a separate suburb to the south, which shares the postcode of 2121. North Epping is a leafy ...

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• Fire causes floor, roof of Botany shopfitters factory to collapse

  

  Fire causes floor, roof of Botany shopfitters factory to collapseUpdatedNovember 30, 2015 22:27:52 The floor and roof of a two-level shopfitters building has collapsed after an intense fire ripped through the property at Botany in Sydney's south-east.Fire and Rescue New South Wales Superintendent Ian Krimmer said the blaze, which was under control on Monday evening, generated a lot of smoke because of materials inside the factory.He said crews spent most of the afternoon trying to stop the f..

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• Work in Progress

  

  Ku chive and prawn siu mai.Photo: Edwina PicklesMyffy RigbyLate '90s dance-floor bangers and scallop dumplings: who knew they'd be such a winning combination? Justin Hemmes did, seemingly. Though what dumpling master Eric Koh thinks of that much autotuned Cher remains a mystery. For everyone else, it's an opportunity to either relive – or be horrified by – those heady years of bucket hats, body shirts and Justin Timberlake-era Britney Spears.Either way, you'll eat well doing it. Koh, for the pla..

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• Former Hells Angels gang member kidnapped from his home in...

  

  Video will begin in5seconds.Ex-bikie gang member kidnapped in ThailandWayne Rodney Schneider, a former Australian Hells Angles motorcycle gang member, has been beaten unconscious and kidnapped at gunpoint from his home in Thailand.PT0M54S620349Bangkok:A former Australian Hells Angles motorcycle gang member has been beaten unconscious and kidnapped at gunpoint from his home in Thailand.Five masked men drove 38-year-old Wayne Rodney Schneider away in the back of a pick-up truck in the seaside tour..

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• Creative new teaching method brings 'hero moments' to students in...

  

  Creative new teaching method brings 'hero moments' to students in south-west SydneyPostedNovember 30, 2015 21:06:49 A new teaching method being trialled in New South Wales, which incorporates games and physical theatre, is allowing each student a chance to shine.High school teacher Catherine Myers said she used to dread her Monday morning science class."On Sunday nights I'd think, 'what am I going to do with them? How do I keep them engaged for two hours?'"For the past 10 weeks she has been ..

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• 'Gut feeling' led to Coulter-Nile inclusion

  

  As selection panel chairman Rod Marsh tells it, the moment that Mitchell Starc limped out of the Australian summer with a stress fracture in his foot thoughts immediately turned to a potential replacement with an even lengthier injury history and who hasn’t played a first-class match this season.Nathan Coulter-Nile was seen as a key part of Australia’s planning for this year’s World Cup until he suffered the latest in a series of hamstring injuries playing in the Indian Premier League, and ..

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• Stereosonic paramedics told not to talk to police after woman's death

  

  Police monitor crowds at Stereosonic. The private paramedic company hired by Stereosonic has reportedly banned its staff from speaking to NSW Police after a young woman died of a suspected drug overdose at the Sydney dance festival.An email sent to Event Medical Services staff hours after the death of 25-year-old pharmacist Sylvia Choi on Saturday night told them not to "make any comment" if approached by police, theSydney Morning Heraldreports.The company, founded by paramedic an..

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• Robert Xie: Trial of man accused of killing five members of extended...

  

  Robert Xie murder trial: Jury fails to reach verdict over deaths of five family members in North EppingUpdatedDecember 01, 2015 16:02:00 A Sydney man charged with murdering five members of his extended family will face a fourth trial next year after the jury in his third trial failed to reach a verdict.Robert Xie stood trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court for nearly 10 months, accused of using a hammer to bludgeon the victims to death.The bodies of newsagent Min Lin and his wife Lily L..

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• Paris UN Climate Conference 2015: Malcolm Turnbull blazes the...

  

  ANALYSISVideo will begin in5seconds.Australia's climate commitmentMalcolm Turnbull promises to contribute one billion dollars to fight climate change and to ratify the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol.PT4M34S620349Paris: Keeping the speeches of national leaders to under 10 minutes may go down as one of the minor achievements of the global climate summit that formally began in Paris on Monday.In the case of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's generally safe speech, fresh details were ..

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• Australia's economy is proving more Indian than Greek

  

  The big news was that Sydney property prices fell 1.4 per cent, the biggest ... Approvals in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia rose more than 20 per ...

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