A former NSW minister has warned the state’s communities still on their knees from the Black Summer bushfires are living in a “blast furnace” ready to explode and green tape is preventing landowners from protecting themselves. 

Two cousins were killed when an inflatable they were riding struck a submerged stump while they were being towed by their grandfather in a boat in country NSW. 

An Instagram friendship turned into a nightmare for a 21-year-old woman after she was allegedly raped three times over two days by a 20-year-old man from Blacktown. 

Rafael Nadal says he is still getting used to his schedule as a first time father. 

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