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Sydney’s top-ranked school has an HSC average subject score of 89.4. How does your school fare?
By band sixes or averages, North Sydney Boys is the state’s top school. A new analysis of HSC scores has shaken up the top five.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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Domestic violence
Emma’s husband was a first-time DV offender. Her experience told a different story
When Emma’s husband hit her and dragged her along the floor, she stayed quiet. The next time it happened, she couldn’t be silent.
- by Clare Sibthorpe and Nigel Gladstone
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Domestic violence
The Sydney suburbs with the most alcohol-related domestic violence
The Herald has built an interactive map, pinpointing domestic violence incidents across the state’s local government areas over the past decade.
- by Heath Gilmore, Sally Rawsthorne and Nigel Gladstone
Man who allegedly used hidden cameras to film women to remain behind bars
Police allege a man set up hidden cameras in a bedroom at a Lithgow home to film women without their consent during intimate acts.
- by Nigel Gladstone
Two Westmead security guards stabbed amid spike in hospital assaults
Police were called to Westmead Hospital about 11.30pm last night following reports that a 39-year-old man allegedly stabbed two security guards.
- by Nigel Gladstone
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Education
The Sydney private schools with the highest-earning parents
The new figures help rank schools based on parents’ income and determine how much government funding flows to each school.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone
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NSW budget
The NSW budget explained in five charts
Five key data points on the state’s economy and finances show it is not all gloom.
- by Matt Wade and Nigel Gladstone
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Crime
The Sydney suburbs with the most murders, victims and alleged killers
Sydney’s murder maps reveal where killings took place and where the alleged killers live. Use our interactive tool to explore the homicidal history of the city’s postcodes.
- by Sally Rawsthorne, Heath Gilmore and Nigel Gladstone
Masked men on the run after home invasion, shooting
CCTV footage shows eight men wielding pistols, a shotgun and a machete enter a house where a man was shot in the leg.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Nigel Gladstone
Two women dead after being swept off rocks at Kurnell
The two women were pulled unconscious from the water but couldn’t be revived after the incident at the notorious coastal strip in Sydney’s south.
- by Nigel Gladstone
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HSC
The maps that expose the state’s great HSC divide
Experts warn that some students are becoming effectively ‘locked out’ of tertiary study.
- by Lucy Carroll and Nigel Gladstone