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Heavy rain in Sydney CBD on Thursday. The NSW State Emergency Service had received 1109 calls for assistance across the state by 9.30pm on Thursday, with the majority of people asking for help with leaking roofs and requesting sandbags due to the heavy rainfall.Credit:Janie Barrett
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A briefly colourful dawn at Avalon on Sydney's northern beaches ahead of showers and rain over much of the state. A low pressure system mixed with an onshore wind has kept rain over Sydney and the NSW coast for the past 2 days with more to come.Credit:Nick Moir
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Deputy Premier John Barilaro and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet after further easing of COVID-19 restrictions for indoor venues, pubs and clubs at The Mercantile Hotel on St Patrick's Day. Credit:Rhett Wyman
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Peter Heggie is a carer for his wife Leah who has several mental illnesses. He is advocating for carers to ensure they make time for their own mental health. Demand for mental health services remains higher than normal as the pandemic year has left Australians “fatigued” and anxious about their ability to cope with new challenges in 2021.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Labor MPs Kate Thwaites, Anika Wells, Peta Murphy, Kristina Keneally, Labor's Senate Leader Senator Penny Wong , Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Shadow Minister for National Reconstruction, Employment, Skills and Small Business Richard Marles singing. Women's March 4 Justice at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 15 March 2021.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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A child braves the rough conditions at the front of a Manly ferry on the 14th. Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Lobaba Idris with her 6 week old twins Lalya Badri (left) and Zayn Badri (right). A rise in premature twin babies born in NSW is being driven by obstetricians choosing to deliver early, raising the risk of short term health issues and long term developmental problems. Roughly half of twins are born preterm (before 37 weeks gestation) in NSW, and more than two in three twin births are planned caesareans or inductions (45 per cent and 23 per cent respectively), according to an analysis of more than 28,000 twins born between 2003 and 2014 at 30 weeks gestation or more.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Curator Pedram Khosronejad at the Powerhouse Museum. The new exhibition, Iranzamin, which explores Persia's rich history of art and culture coincides with the Persian New Year in Sydney.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Hannah Quinn departs Darlinghurst Court after her boyfriend boyfriend Blake Davis was refused bail. Blake was charged with the killing of Jett McKee with a samurai sword. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Members of Ingleburn RSL Pipe Band warm up for a St. Patrick's Day outside the Overseas Passenger Terminal. Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Brittany Higgins speaks at the March 4 Justice to rally at Parliament House in Canberra. Brittany Higgins made a surprise appearance at the rally outside Parliament House in Canberra, delivering a powerful speech.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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The new Barangaroo Metro station site. The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have helped increase the pace of construction on Sydney’s multibillion-dollar City and Southwest Metro rail project.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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The cast and crew of opera 'La Traviata' rehearse. The show will finally return to the Sydney Harbour stage exactly one year to the day since the event was shut down in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Joe McNamara , Simon Moroney and Trevor Potts kayaking off Coogee Beach. They will be attempting to kayak from Victoria to Tasmania in a few weeks time. The attempt will launch from Port Welshpool in Melbourne's east to Little Musselroe Bay in Tasmania's far north east. A voyage of over 350kms over an estimated 8 or 9 days of paddling.Credit:Nick Moir
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese with Labor MPs Alicia Payne, Amanda Rishworth, Matt Keogh, Anika Wells and Kate Thwaites as he greets the new babies, ahead of a doorstop interview at Parliament House.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
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Women's March 4 Justice protest in Sydney. Protestors marched to Sydney Town Hall. The March 4 Justice protests followed a month during which headlines and politics have been dominated by allegations of abuse suffered by women.Credit:Nick Moir
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Prime Minister, Scott Morrison gestures with an air wrench at Phil Gilbert Motor Group in Croydon. He visited the workshop to spruik the continuation of the Federal Apprenticeships grant.Credit:Kate Geraghty
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Napoleon Perdis near the Zappeion Hall in Athens. “My world didn’t go up in flames, it just evolved,” says Perdis, who turns 51 this week. “And as it was evolving I failed to understand that I had to keep pace with it as well. But I was from a Greek immigrant background in Parramatta and I was a self-made businessman without a mentor. I was trying to turn a profit for the company and have some success without looking at the big picture.”Credit:Bill Georgoussis
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Starting on March 13, Pratten Park Bowling Club will stage regular culturally diverse music gigs. 91-year-old president Gladys with Richard Petkovic who helped secure a $52,000 grant to put on the gigs.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Rockpool executive chef Corey Costelloe grills Abalone in the restaurant kitchen. He says "It's the most delicious seafood, and we've served it at the restaurant for the past 10 years," says the executive chef of the hatted CBD steakhouse. "But with lockdowns and COVID affecting supply, and one of our tanks needing to be fixed, it's been a minute since we could offer it."Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Kate Fischer (formerly Tziporah Malkah) waits in the queue after arriving at the Downing Centre Courts. She is accused of contravening an AVO. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Best selling action/Sci-fi Author Matthew Reilly is directing his first film called Intercepter. Forty years and 18 novels into a successful career, Reilly’s lifelong ambition will soon be fulfilled thanks to a deal with Netflix.Credit:Nick Moir
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Danielle Rizk’s son with her son George, 14 months, who was born at 23 weeks and two days gestation. Doctors should hold off clamping the umbilical cords of premature babies to help give them the best chance to thrive in their critical first days of life.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Cairns Master Jeweller Graeme Chibnall has survived the pilots strike, the GFC and more and will survive the pandemic and tourism downturn. He has downsized and turned his focus from cashed up International tourists to local clientele.Credit:BRIAN CASSEY
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Violin soloist, ensemble player, leader, composer Richard Tognetti. Richard this month, along with his ACO compatriots will come out of pandemic hibernation to present Beethoven & Bridgetower, performing Beethoven’s Bridgetower Sonata alongside Leos Janacek’s First String Quartet – inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), which is in turn inspired by Beethoven’s sonata. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Three Sydney speakers ahead of Monday's March 4 Justice rally, Michael Bradley and Jess Hill (left) and Marie Barbaric. Photo taken at Sydney's Town Hall. The March 4 Justice rally gathered thousands of people across the country to end violence and sexual assault against women in Australia.Credit:Wolter Peeters
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Member for Cowan Anne Aly with the Member for Canberra Alicia Payne and her daughter Elena in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Female cartoonists Lizzie Nagy (right) and Claudia Chinyere Akole. The New Australia Council research shows that the gender gap is narrowing in the Australian comic and graphic storytelling world. More than half of young comic book makers and graphic artists are women and one in five are either transgender or non binary. Men account for 27 per cent of graphic artists aged 18 to 39.Credit:James Brickwood
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Bob Katter speaks to the media whilst holding a pineapple at Parliament House in Canberra. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
