New South Wales

• Sydney, Australia braces for more rain as deaths from flooding rise to 17

  A wild weather system dumped more than a year's worth of rainfall over a week in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW).

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  Mar 6, 2022
  
• Australia’s NSW state expands COVID-19 lockdown amid record jump in cases

  Australian police hiked fines for people breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules in Sydney and the rest of its home state on Saturday.

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  Aug 14, 2021
  
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• Australia sees spike in COVID-19 cases despite lockdown

  New South Wales state, home to the country's most populous city Sydney, logged 110 new cases, up from 78 the day before.

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  Jul 20, 2021
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• Sydney fights to contain COVID-19 Delta variant spread as minister tests positive

  Eleven new local cases were reported on Thursday, taking the total infections in the latest outbreak to more than 40.

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  Jun 23, 2021
• Australia turns to rodent ‘napalm’ as mouse plague overwhelms farmers

  Millions of mice have overrun rural New South Wales, in a plague that is costing the local economy hundreds of millions of dollars.

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  May 28, 2021
• Heart-stopping video shows surfer’s close call with circling shark

  Professional surfer Matt Wilkinson had no idea the 1.5 metre-long shark was sneaking up on him.

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  Oct 8, 2020
• ‘No dancing, no singing’: Australia coronavirus measures increase as surge spreads

  Australia on Friday posted its second biggest one-day rise in new COVID-19 infections, with 438 cases.

  World

  Jul 17, 2020
• Australia border businesses brace for chaos ahead of coronavirus closure

  For businesses on the border, which last closed during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919, it also poses an immediate logistics headache.

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  Jul 6, 2020
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• Australia to close border between 2 largest states as coronavirus cases spike

  The border between the states of New South Wales — home to Sydney — and Victoria — home to Melbourne — is due to be shut late Tuesday.

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  Jul 6, 2020
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• Friends mourn kayaker who shared ‘last call for help’ on Facebook Live

  Jeremy Peter Worthy's body washed up on the shore of New South Wales, Australia, after he posted several distressing videos on Facebook.

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  May 28, 2020