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News, Current Affairs and Lifestyle Journalism of the Illawarra and Sydney Regions

Severe Lack of Trans Health Services in NSW: A Non-Binary Trans Person's Experience

Being transgender comes with a number of trials and tribulations, especially if you want to medically transition. Undergoing a process...

Rodrigo Duterte being sworn in as the 16th President of the Philippines on June 30 2016. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons President of the...

PHOTOGRAPH: Marco Antonio Torres (via flickr) On Wednesday, the NSW government announced a record $219 million funding investment to be...

A covert online investigation into child exploitation that was undertaken by officers attached to Strike Force Trawler has seen an Albion...

Mike Baird - Photo: Eva Rinaldi Contending NSW Premier, Mike Baird, will be at the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong, from Sunday to...

Every four years, in a kind of grandiose circus, the United States elects a new president. Every four years the amount of money spent on...

Mental health in Australia unfortunately still falls victim to stigmatization. Occurring wherever negative opinions, judgments or...

Hands Off Syria protesters at Martin Place, Sydney - Photographer: Tim Anderson Unconfirmed reports emerged on Wednesday, of a second...

The annual Art4Refugees fundraiser for the Strategic Community Assistance to Refugee Families (SCARF) opens tonight at Project Contemporary

The NSW Nurses & Midwives Association announced last week that it is “resolved to take all necessary actions to conduct a campaign against t

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