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Brad McCutcheon is a resident of St George's Caravan park near Lower Portland, on the Hawkesbury River - which has been severely impacted by the Hawkesbury floods.Credit:Nick Moir
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John and Sue Brookes cleaning up floating debris in their backyard. “We were sort of hoping it wasn’t going to come up as much as it did,” Mr Brookes said of the four-storey home, adding they “just finished the wine cellar” but made sure to get “all the wine out”. “The house is 200 years old, it’s such a cool house, it’s seen some floods before. We’re very lucky, it’s all sandstone down there [on the ground level], all the walls, the floor, we’re luckier than some other people, poor buggers.”Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Dargle Waterski resort is still inundated after the Hawkesbury River flooded through on Sunday. Several of the caravans were washed downstream and dumped at St George Caravan Park. Credit:Nick Moir
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Sarah O'Connell takes her horses Minnie and Bob for a walk along George St, Windsor. They are temporarily staying in her backyard due to their paddock flooding.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Jarryd Hayne leaves court after being convicted of sexual intercourse without consent.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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A turtle looks on: Gladys Berejiklian, at Sealife Aquarium, announcing Dine and Discover voucher to all NSW. Credit:Nick Moir
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What a week :The Morrison government is following up information provided to it about the identities of staffers involved in obscene acts in Parliament House, but has not yet confirmed who they are. One staff member was sacked on Monday night after Ten News reported he and colleagues had shared lewd images and videos, including of himself performing a sex act on a female MP’s desk.Credit:Rhett Wyman
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The member for Lilley, Anika Wells, with her twins in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra. Female federal MPs are reaching out across party lines to set up a group that seeks to grow their ranks at coming elections and could function as a forum for women in Parliament to push for a better workplace.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Dr Heather McKenzie (left) administers the COVID-19 vaccination to Darryl Wright (centre) moments after Ivan Wellington (right) received his vaccination at Tharawal Corporation Medical Centre in Airds, Sydney, NSW.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Soon after Helena Dix nearly died from COVID-19 in London last April, the Australian opera singer sat down at her piano to see how much of her voice was left. She managed the first two notes. Then she could barely stand, let alone sing. Helena spent a year rediscovering how to sing, and now she's back in Australia to perform two operas.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Neighbours Dan Streat and Steve Innes venture out onto floodwaters around Pitt Town to check on their friends property which was inundated.Credit:Nick Moir
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Hawkesbury River Oyster Shed, operated by Deb and Peter O'Sullivan at Mooney Mooney. The past week's torrential rain and flooding has threatened the Oyster industry along the Hawkesbury River, due to fresh water flushing out the saltwater needed for the oysters to survive. Peter and his employees are relocating oysters from their Marramarra leases to their Porto Bay leases, which are closer to the ocean in a hope that saltwater will return sooner and they can save their oysters. Credit:James Brickwood
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Arthur Efthymiou, owner of Trianon Cake Shop in Earlwood, who like other business owners in the old Canterbury City Council area could see rates going up by 62%. Credit:James Brickwood
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Treacy Bugeja with daughter Ruby and Sarah O'Connell assessing the damage and cleaning up their flooded home. Flood waters are receding in Arnedell Street, Windsor.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Margot Riley, Curator at the State Library of NSW, inspects the sailing diary belonging to Jack Earl, the grandfather of Tiare Tomaszewski. Thousands crowded the shores of Sydney Harbour to farewell the Kathleen Gillett as she set off to circumnavigate the globe in June 1947. Keen to keep his wife Kathleen up to date with the boat’s progress, Captain Jack Earl sent her a logbook for each of the twelve legs of the 25,700-mile voyage.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Residents in western Sydney try to dry their laundry on the balcony during a prolonged wet spell in Sydney. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Sharyn Cullis and John Anderson, both fighting against the danger posed by the PFAS contaminated land on a intermodal currently being constructed alongside the George's River in Moorebank. Residents opposed to the development of one of Australia’s largest freight hubs say the site requires long-term monitoring and possible intervention to prevent toxic chemicals leaching into the nearby Georges River. The Moorebank Logistics Park, capable of handling a million standard shipping containers a year, sits on former Defence land on Sydney’s south-west where the military used a range of chemicals.Credit:Nick Moir
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Flooding of Ben Sullivan's ground floor, in North St WindsorCredit:Nick Moir
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When NSW Labor MP Julia Finn saw thousands of young women sharing their stories of sexual assault, she decided she was ready to join them. Twenty-eight years ago the member for Granville was in their shoes, herself a victim of sexual assault. The parliamentarian of six years recalls the experience as deeply traumatising and the catalyst for years of post-traumatic stress. “I was very disappointed to see things haven’t changed in a generation. We do need better education about consent and the consequences for not giving consent.”Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Minister for the Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, Paul Fletcher, during a press conference about creative sector funding.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Kerri Glasscock, founding co-director of Venue 505 in Newtown, which will close its doors at the end of the month, due the end of JobKeeper, which means lots of live venues are likely to close. Credit:James Brickwood
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The Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry close to where residents have evacuated along the river due to rising flood waters.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Waterfalls in the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains as conditions ease after several days of heavy flooding rain. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Patricia Parker, 86, views her submerged home from the safety of her son and daughter-in-law's balcony at Nagles Gully, on the Hawkesbury River, where the flood waters continue to rise near Wisemans Ferry. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Wallabies coach Dave Rennie. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Artist, Laura Jones, had a painting that she was donating to a bushfire relief auction, stolen. Credit:Janie Barrett
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Golden Slipper runner, Glistening with stable hand Madonna (Marzena Kawalczyk) at the stables of the Freedman Brothers in Randwick. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Sarah O'Connell with Brooke GreenTree cleaning up their flooded home. Flood waters are receding in Arnedell Street, Windsor. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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SES rescue Windsor residents as their homes become isolated and inundated as the Hawkesbury River floods across the region.Credit:Nick Moir
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Elliot Sullivan, 15, collects the dogs from North street, Windsor. Credit:Dean Sewell
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After days of torrential rain, the flood affected Nepean River at Penrith began to subside. James, Liam and Jemma Byrne with a Blue Tongue lizard they rescued from the flood water. A witness mark on the wall next to them shows the height the floodwater reached.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Runners and walkers at Mrs Macquaries Chair area of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Farm Cove overlooking Sydney Harbour. Temperatures predicted to reach 28 degrees following days of rain and flooding in NSW. Credit:Kate Geraghty
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The Nepean River begins to breach its banks after days of heavy rain. Homeowners close to the Nepean River at Penrith, in western Sydney, mopped muddy water from their floors and inside their homes after floodwaters rose about one metre up their walls.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Disaster tourists watch bridge go under in Windsor. Credit:Dean Sewell
