Health authorities announced a frantic expansion of testing locations in Fairfield on Wednesday night in the face of extreme backlash, after a lack of testing capacity forced residents to wait up to six hours for a swab so they could go to work.

A growing corporate trend to give special “cultural” or “ceremonial leave” as paid holidays to only Indigenous workers has been slammed as “divisive” and “reverse racism”.

The arrests of two men over the murder of underworld figure Mejid Hamzy could be the beginning of the end for a bloody war between two crime families in Sydney’s southwest, with police “guaranteeing” more arrests will follow.

And in sport, the Blues have missed out on an Origin series clean sweep, going down to Queensland 20-18 in Game Three on the Gold Coast.

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Health authorities announced a frantic expansion of testing locations in Fairfield on Wednesday night in the face of extreme backlash, after a lack of testing capacity forced residents to wait up to six hours for a swab so they could go to work.

A growing corporate trend to give special “cultural” or “ceremonial leave” as paid holidays to only Indigenous workers has been slammed as “divisive” and “reverse racism”.

The arrests of two men over the murder of underworld figure Mejid Hamzy could be the beginning of the end for a bloody war between two crime families in Sydney’s southwest, with police “guaranteeing” more arrests will follow.

And in sport, the Blues have missed out on an Origin series clean sweep, going down to Queensland 20-18 in Game Three on the Gold Coast.

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