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An Emergency Warning has been issued for a bushfire at Bindoon in the WA shire of Chittering. For the latest, search on ABC Emergency

The prime minister has condemned a group who boarded a Sydney train wearing "balaclavas" and carried a banner referencing a Neo-Nazi group on Australia Day.

Sydney's Powerhouse Museum will temporarily shut its doors to the public on Sunday evening after more than 35 years of operation in Ultimo.

Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has closed its doors for renovation and will not reopen for another three years.

A Manly Sea Eagles player who collapsed and died following a training session with the NRL club in 2020 was killed by exertional heat stroke, an inquiry has heard.

The morning before Keith Titmuss died suddenly after a training session with the Manly Sea Eagles he seemed "fine" and "normal," according to his teammates.

An urgently-convened asbestos task force has met as authorities scramble to protect communities across Sydney from exposure to the carcinogenic building material.

Lithium-ion battery-related fires are "becoming an epidemic", according to Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW), after responding to two more blazes in Sydney this morning,

Football New South Wales is making the case for more funding after a 34 per cent increase in registered players, dubbed the 'Matildas effect'.

We’ve had 13 punishing interest rate rises that were supposed to quickly kill off inflation.While price rises are not nearly as bad as they were a year or two ago, the main measure of annual inflation has ticked up again.It’s key information to help the Reserve Bank board decide what to do about interest rates when it meets next week.Despite inflation being ‘sticky’, it’s a long way off its peak. So, is the result good enough for rates to remain on hold?Today, economist Cassandra Winzar with her verdict on rates and a forecast on when things will start getting easier.Featured:Cassandra Winzar, chief economist, Committee for Economic Development of Australia