Sydney’s top politicians and socialites drummed up a bill of almost $100,000 for a lavish soirée to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a Sydney gallery – weeks after thousands of Australians were left out of work following the ­removal of JobKeeper.

Australian drug traffickers brazenly sent photographs to each other of multimillion-dollar drug hauls while unwittingly using a police Trojan horse communications app to discuss their transport options for getting narcotics into the country.

A humpback whale that breached and headbutted a teenage fisherman and left him in a coma was “like a giant truck that hit us out of nowhere,” the boy’s stepfather said.

And in sport, just 1.7 per cent of the sold out Townsville crowd is the grand total of NSW-based supporters that have tickets to watch their Blues play State of Origin I tonight.

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Sydney’s top politicians and socialites drummed up a bill of almost $100,000 for a lavish soirée to celebrate the 150th anniversary of a Sydney gallery – weeks after thousands of Australians were left out of work following the ­removal of JobKeeper.

Australian drug traffickers brazenly sent photographs to each other of multimillion-dollar drug hauls while unwittingly using a police Trojan horse communications app to discuss their transport options for getting narcotics into the country.

A humpback whale that breached and headbutted a teenage fisherman and left him in a coma was “like a giant truck that hit us out of nowhere,” the boy’s stepfather said.

And in sport, just 1.7 per cent of the sold out Townsville crowd is the grand total of NSW-based supporters that have tickets to watch their Blues play State of Origin I tonight.

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