Declan Bowring

The ABC asked high school students what they thought about social media bans for people under 14 set to be mooted by state governments. Here's what they had to say.

In short: Randwick Mayor Philipa Veitch faced a no confidence vote at an extraordinary council meeting last night that was brought after she made speeches at pro-Palestinian rallies.

Huge swells move tonnes of sand from the northern end of the eastern suburbs beach, but the new feature will only be there for a couple of months according to lifeguards.

In short: Divers have been horrified to find the butchered corpses of two well-known bull rays at Chowder Bay on Sydney's lower north shore.

When Dorothy Jackson bought her grave site in a Sydney seaside cemetery at 77, she had 25 years to use it. At 102, she's outlived the contract.

Police say a spear fisherman handed in the firearm, which was found off Dee Why Beach.

Nivaaz Sehmbi fell in love with quantum engineering when she discovered it while in Year 10 at school.

Elderly residents of Sydney's east say the program crucially helped them become more resilient against falls, which cost the NSW health system $750 million a year.