Sydney’s spring racing carnival now boasts the two richest races in the nation with the Golden Eagle receiving a prizemoney boost to $8m from next year. 

A new billion-dollar fund will invest in low emissions steel, aluminium, livestock feed, batteries and other technologies in a bid to ensure Australian green business ideas can compete globally.

Questions about an actress, tweezers and a poem about quartz crystals left some HSC students stumped after their first exam yesterday but the trickiest test will be today when they are expected to write more than 3000 words in just two hours.

And in sport, Manly’s Tom Trbojevic is the superstar behind the NRL decision’s to award Manly a staggering 12 free-to-air games in 24 rounds next season. 

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