Farid Farid
Prostate cancer costliest disease to treat
Prostate cancer is Australia’s most expensive disease to treat with costs ballooning to $1.35 billion a year. Data from the Australian Institute...
Energy-poor rentals cost NSW tenants $1.2 billion
Energy-hungry rental homes are costing tenants more than $1 billion every year in extra bills, an analysis of NSW rental homes has...
Twenty gay men bashed daily, NSW inquiry told
Assistant NSW police commissioner Anthony Crandell has told a landmark inquiry about 20 gay men were violently bashed every day for a...
Last NSW ‘Rat of Tobruk’ dies aged 106
The last remaining of the NSW Rats of Tobruk has died, leaving behind only a few survivors of the infamous World War...
NSW hires student doctors to ease pressure
More than 1000 NSW final-year medical students will be working in hospitals in paid positions to reduce pressure on hospitals in the state’s...
Health system ‘racist to Indigenous Australians’
Going to an emergency department as an Aboriginal person is a profoundly more racist experience than for non-Indigenous Australians – and it...
Air evacuations from NSW town as floodwaters to peak
Residents have been flown to safety from Euabalong in central western NSW as the Lachlan River rises towards a peak of 8m....
NSW floods the costliest natural disaster
The ongoing NSW flood crisis is now Australia’s most expensive natural disaster with insurers estimating $5.5 billion in claims have been lodged this...
NSW roads cut but showers tipped to clear
Showers are beginning to clear across NSW but flood recovery efforts in the state’s central west and Riverina regions have only just...
Huge spike in battery fires sparks warning
Firies are warning shoppers of a significant rise in fires caused by batteries in e-bikes and e-scooters ahead of Christmas. Fire and...