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The Sydney Morning Herald is a home. It opens its front door and we know we will be nourished with knowledge and involvement. The loneliness disappears and we find friends on each page as the stories fill our hearts. We are left overjoyed with news of someone once lost but now found. We are educated in complicated finance, made aware of real estate, technology and environmental issues; everything is there. Thank you Herald for the education, the political and sport coverage and other stories,...

Advertisement If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, yet walks upright like a human, what do you call it? Meet Ferdinand, the Indian runner duck from Dapto, who rocked poultry history this week to win best bird at the 2021 Sydney Royal Easter Show. It is the first time a duck has won this honour in the show’s 199-year history, and the tributes kept flowing as the news of the win spread. The two-year-old drake - a very upright type of waterfowl who walks and doesn’t waddle - was...

Biomedical graduate thrilled to use degree to make a difference in people’s lives Geetika Maddirala was finishing high school and deciding what to do next. She knew she wanted to study engineering, but just wasn’t sure which university or college would offer the career path she desired. From her hometown in Colorado, in the United States, Geetika spent months researching universities around the world, in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, before eventually settling on the unfamiliar city of Woll...

Thirteen is a lucky number for some, with replacements scheduled to this number of playgrounds between Austinmer and Dapto. The improvement works to 13...

Teenage Dragons fullback Tyrell Sloan has credited his impressive pre-season campaign to gruelling running sessions he did with the Sydney Swans before St George Illawarra training began. Sloan, who played under 18s for Dapto last year after the NSWRL senior competitions were cancelled, wanted to give himself a head-start for pre-season training so he accepted an invitation to join the Swans players for some distance running. The 18-year-old has never played AFL and is not interested in a code ...

Valentines Day murder trial jury hears desperate partners triple-0 call after drive-by shooting ThuThursday 4 Nathan Costello was killed in a drive-by shooting on Valentines Day in 2018. ( Print text only Cancel A Supreme Court jury has heard a desperate triple-0 call from the partner of a shooting victim who tearfully described his horrific injuries minutes after he was gunned down. Key points: Matthew Spinks has been charged with the murder of Nathan Costello on Valentines Day in 2018 The def...

02:47 EDT, 1 February 2021 18 shares A woman jailed for poisoning her partner with a toxic cocktail of drugs, including morphine, valium and tramadol, has had her murder conviction overturned. Wendie-Sue Dent, 62, denied killing her de facto husband David Lawrence in December 2015 to claim his $300,000 estate. But she was found guilty by a South Australian Supreme Court jury in April last year of murdering Mr Lawrence inside his Morphett Vale home, south of Adelaide. The prosecution had alle...

NSW recorded three locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night, with an additional two cases in returned travellers in hotel...

Hair, makeup and limousine rides: The primary school kids getting their own formal We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Hair, makeup and limousine rides: The primary school kids getting their own formal Save Normal text size Advertisement Students getting glammed up and riding to the school formal in fancy cars is nothing new - except now it’s happening in primary school. Traditions that were once reserved for the year 10 or year 12 forma...

Brian James 1943-January 10, 2020 A high-quality winger for South Sydney who represented Australia at the 1968 World Cup before retiring at the age of 26. The son of former Cootamundra Maher Cup prop Jack "Swifty" James, he came to rugby league via rugby union after attending Newington College and playing a season of first grade with the St George rugby club. He switched to rugby league with St George in 1961 where he played centre and wing but top-grade opportunities were scarce in the Dragons...