Jack Morphet
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Reporter at New York Post ( @nypost ) | Formerly The Sunday Telegraph ( @dailytelegraph ) | 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸 jmorphet @nypost .com
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Exclusive: confirmed pictures of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.
A classmate told me he wasn’t a complete loner but according to his yearbook he wasn’t part of any clubs or extra-curricular activities in his senior year.
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Police have used pepper spray in Central station to disperse the final protesters lingering after today’s overwhelmingly peaceful
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
protest.
@dailytelegraph
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An injured
@NSWRFS
firefighter receiving medical attention at Balmoral in Sydney’s southwest. His distraught mates can barely hold themselves together. Homes burning.
@dailytelegraph
#NSWfires
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Some personal news: after four sensational years at The Sunday Telegraph, I will join the New York Post (
@nypost
) later this month.
I’ve covered the drought in Batlow NSW, so reporting on the Big Apple should be sweet.
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Response from
@ABSCensus
about that BUMSEX
#marriageequality
#postalvote
barcode.
#VoteYes
@dailytelegraph
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Channel Nine reporter
@DamoNews
getting chased off by protesters outside Central station where the mood is becoming quite tense.
@dailytelegraph
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@SquigglyRick
What I’m confused about is: what couple who collectively earn less than $200k a year have already bought a home and have another $150k ready to spend on renos over and above mortgage repayments? Certainly not first home owners.
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Getting pitted on Port Jackson. Not what you’d expect in Vaucluse.
#NSWFloods
#sydneystorm
#sydneyrain
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Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters who rallied at the New York Public Library marched to the New York Times office. Protesters are occupying the NYT lobby, claiming the paper “is an agent of US imperialism”.
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A smouldering tree has fallen on
@abcnews
journalist
@jameshancockABC
’s car at Nana Glen on the north coast. I’m told the journo and cameraman weren’t in the car at the time, but it was close.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
📸: Nathan Edwards
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A man who hijacked the protest has been ejected by police to chants of “go home racist”. Crowd cheering police for ejecting him.
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
@dailytelegraph
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5,346 teachers, principals and school counsellors polled:
98% say students’ mental health worsening including more suicides.
90% say there are not enough school counsellors to help.
@dailytelegraph
@TeachersFed
@AGavrielatos
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The whole time I’ve been covering the drought, there’s been a faint optimism it will rain and the problem will go away. Now there’s a timeline for when rivers, dams could completely run dry - and it’s in as little as seven weeks. The optimism’s gone.
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They couldn’t see or breathe, the fire was so furious it melted their truck and the water from their hoses evaporated before it hit the flames, but firefighters from Bonville on the mid-north coast never gave up.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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Protesters have smashed the back window of a NYPD cruise parked outside the New York Times and spray painted “FREE GAZA” on the side.
They are chanting “Fuck New York Times”, “tell the truth”, “blood on your hands”, and “Israel, go to hell”.
Lobby now cleared by cops.
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The last remaining protesters who refuse to leave the Sydney
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
protest are getting angry. Police showing great restraint, with protesters shouting “fuck the police” in their faces.
@dailytelegraph
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“He needed to go to a long term facility.
“He was never aggressive. He wasn't a bad person, he just needed better help from doctors who did not give him help when I asked them.”
Story with
@DanaKennedyLive
@isareport
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Not stoked with
@russellcrowe
for getting us kicked out of a
@NSWRFS
staging area for the first time in four days covering fires, but if you’re reading this Rusty the fire’s about a kilometre from your joint, moving towards it.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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“What is unusual is that we have seen fires actually move through hazard reduced areas from as little as two and three years ago. You would normally get five or ten good years (of protection) out of a hazard reduced area.
#NSWbushfires
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The drought has hit the beach. Bellingen and Urunga has three weeks worth of flowing water left, Taree has less than three months, Batemans Bay has between 6-12 months left, Port Macquarie less than a year... Coastal capitals to drink desal and bore water.
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The protest disbanded after three hours at 6pm. Asked why the anger towards the New York Times, protesters said the paper is betraying its “mainstream liberal readers” by “printing the propagandised narrative put out by the Israeli state”.
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An absolute honour.
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The koala saga that came thisclose to splitting the Coalition is far from over. Lib Catherine Cusack doesn’t want to blow up the government but won’t lend her deciding vote to the compromise bill. Celebs and petitions turning the screws.
#nswpol
@dailytelegraph
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12-page special report on the NSW drought in today’s The Sunday Telegraph. Make sure you get a copy and get behind our campaign for real government support - not more loans.
@dailytelegraph
#nswpol
#auspol
NSW is currently experiencing the worst drought since records began in 1900. With droughts no longer considered a natural disaster, it is harder than ever for our farmers to receive assistance.
#9Today
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Firies trying their best to stop fire crossing the Pacific Highway at Johns Creek.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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EXCLUSIVE: Confirmed case of coronavirus in a popular Sydney CBD gym. Infected gym-goer worked out on Monday but cleaners only arrived this afternoon.
Do not go to any gym, according to a leading Australian virologist.
@dailytelegraph
#COVID19Aus
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Incredible work by
@NSWRFS
to save homes and the few remaining residents from bushfire in Johns River on the mid north coast.
#NSWfire
@dailytelegraph
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The innocent bystander shot in the head by NYPD cops on a crowded subway train is Gregory Delpeche, who was on his way to work. The family’s lawyer claims Greg wasn’t even in the same subway car as the knife-wielding fare evader cops were shooting at.
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The diver who discovered Kiely Rodni’s car confirmed the licence plates match and there is a body inside.
Police are about to pull the car out of the Prosser Creek Reservoir.
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Barnaby’s just treated himself to his fifth bunger for the day and rightly so; he’s had a swing towards him and will romp it in tonight. He’s just given me his strongest indication yet he’ll challenge
@M_McCormackMP
for Nationals party leadership.
@dailytelegraph
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Devastated to hear rural charity Aussie Helpers founder Brian Egan has died. Driving through drought-ravaged parts of the state, the first sign of phone signal was when Brian’s voicemail lit up with tens of calls from sobbing farmers desperate for his help.
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The bush is so dry it would take 150mm of widespread, drenching rain — equivalent to two-and-a-half times more rain than Sydney has seen since October — to return to normal moisture levels.
#NSWbushfires
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Farming family has 64c to their name, drinking unfiltered dam water, parents living on expired porridge, young boys crying themselves to sleep.
They’re not desert dwellers, they’re in the NSW food bowl turned to dust.
#nswpol
#drought18
@dailytelegraph
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NSW’s first dam in 30 years will be built near Tamworth, and the Wyangala Dam in the Central West will be raised to fit in the equivalent of an extra Sydney Harbour. It will provide water security to a lot of the towns facing day zero due to the drought.
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All schools must be declared pupil free from Monday, except for the children of essential frontline services workers, according to
@AGavrielatos
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EXCLUSIVE: PM gives $12K to each struggling farmer hit by nightmare drought. Another few hundred million due to be announced in the next few weeks.
@dailytelegraph
…
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Everyone living on the south coast between Moruya and Tilba needs to boil their water for drinking or cooking. Treated water is being mixed with water straight out of the Moruya River to keep up with demand.
#NSWfires
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Unlike kids at Cranbrook or Kings, kids at
@PlumptonHighS
had no idea about job opportunities at the top end of town. Now they regularly call and email their mentors at the likes of
@jpmorgan
and
@Citibank
.
@NSWEducation
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Watch Kim Macdonald point out the creek where she cowered for three hours to escape the flames that burned down her home, and mate John Howard explain his relief to find her alive. It’s a long video but bloody powerful.
@dailytelegraph
#NSWfires
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According to
@fashion_capital
staff, a car has exploded in the car park. No shoppers allowed back to their cars. Five days before Christmas, the shopping centre is packed to the rafters.
#chadstone
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The
@NSWRFS
has warned the fire season could be extended by two months, as most of the ~100 fires burning across the state will need drenching rain to extinguish.
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For all the would-be mums and dads in NSW: each round of IVF at Westmead, RPA and Randwick’s Royal Women’s will now be capped at $1000 - no income test, no limit to how many rounds will be discounted.
Saving couples ~$5000 per round.
@dailytelegraph
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Refugee activists “exercising” their right to protest. Walking around the Town Hall block in small groups, which police are happy with in groups of 20 - despite the protest being unauthorised in the eyes of the court.
@dailytelegraph
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Neither The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nor the Department of Education had any idea Mormons were running classes in public primary schools. And no one knows what they taught kids as young as 8.
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@apacsnsw
@nswppa
@NSWSPC
@TeachersFed
@TaraMoriarty
@bronnietaylor
@smitchellmlc
@pruecar
‘School counsellors need to be paid as much as head teachers to help attract more mental health professionals’
Ping
@msciffer
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The ACCC will launch a 6-month review into the chicken industry, although
@NSWFarmers
and
@afsnsw
still want a full inquiry.
Seven more chicken farmers in NSW alone will be out of business this week.
@dailytelegraph
#agchataus
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Kiely Rodni’s car is being towed from the water now. The back of the Honda CRV has just breached the surface. The orange buoy was attached by magnet by the divers who found it.
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If you were interested in
@abc730
’s report on the Balmoral bushfire, I was inside the fire shed where 35 prayed for their lives, assuming they would die. I wrote about how two fire crews saved us all:
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@stukhan
@NathanaelB
@samanthamaiden
@NSWDPIE_Water
I spoke to Eurobodalla Shire Council mayor Liz Innes. The council office is closed and with limited staff they haven’t been able to post a boil water alert to their website yet.
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Biden motorcade en route from the White House to the Capitol for the State of the Union. USA and Ukrainian flags flying from lampposts along the route.
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65,000 heroes from fireys to charity workers who ran evacuation centres and even meteorologists will today be formally decorated for their outstanding contributions to last season’s Black Summer bushfires.
@dailytelegraph
@NSWRFS
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@loretonhsport
Stoked to see Sydney schoolgirls loving Aussie rules football, but
@AFLisnotasport
.
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Don’t know what’s saddest about this triple-murder suicide. The first line of the mom’s suicide note, how she couldn’t afford to treat her depression without insurance or how a dad found his three kids killed. With
@MarkLungariello
@nypost
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Protesters outside the New York Times office who spray-painted an NYPD cruiser equated the Israel Defence Forces to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Waterbombers hitting the Conjola National Park on the south coast ahead of the expected southerly. A southerly buster would fan embers from the national park into Berrara near Sussex Inlet.
@dailytelegraph
#NSWfires
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I followed a plane-load of young migrants transported late at night from the Mexican border to a nondescript juvenile detention center in a Florida forest. The government and staff at the juvie all refused to answer basic questions about the migrants’ welfare.
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New York’s mental health system is dangerously inadequate.
Jordan Neely’s aunt on his battle with schizophrenia, PTSD and depression:
“I was crying out for medical help for my nephew but everything was about insurance. He didn't get the medical attention he needed.”
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Barnaby wheeled his 95yo dad Jim’s car into Woolbrook Public School and helped direct him out. “I bet Scott Morrison wouldn’t do this for his parents.” About 40 voters so far, 100% expected to vote Nationals.
@dailytelegraph
#auspol
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My yarn on teachers physically restraining kids in the classroom just got a run on
#CommonSenseAU
. The
@walkleys
can jog on.
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I spoke to RFS spokesman Ben Shepherd about NSW bushfires; a thread with his comments
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“We saw at Long Gully (near Casino) where the fire broke containment on a windy day and within a half hour was burning homes and tragically took the first two lives this year. That was some three weeks after the fire was listed as contained b/c it’s so incredibly dry out there.
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All that remains of the 139-year-old Bobin Public School on the mid north coast after it was consumed by a fireball.
@NSWEducation
@smitchellmlc
#NSWfires
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Everything wrong with
@WWOS9
#cricket
coverage. Hard to read if like me you're nodding harder than Chris Pyne.
http://t.co/71jTM1SSuT
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The board of studies is looking for a Chief Exective to shape the future of school education across NSW.
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Stoked to get a run at New South Young Journo of the Year.
#grouse
#fairgoforthebush
#humblecountryscribe
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The skycrane’s among the aircraft doucing flames on the Pacific Highway at Johns River. The national highway is closed.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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From next year it will be mandatory for teachers from public, private and Catholic schools to be taught mental health as part of their on-the-job training.
@dailytelegraph
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This bloke, Warren Smith, lost his home where the car was crushed. His parents’ ashes are scattered on the property so he’ll stay and rebuild. He just wanted a quiet cry before he pulled himself together.
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Where is Brian Laundrie? I spoke with Dog the Bounty Hunter (
@DogBountyHunter
), who thinks Laundrie is alive somewhere on the 2,184 mile Appalachian Trail hiking track between Georgia and Maine.
#GabbyPetito
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An update on firey Matty Eyles and his first words when he opened his eyes.
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“The only thing that is going to put out these fires is a significant amount of rain.
#NSWbushfires
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P2 respirators made by 3M and sold nationally between 17 May and 10 June are being recalled. The nose foam can detach or move and should not be worn.
#NSWfires
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The
@NSWNationals
have lost the Riverina, which is 17% of NSW’s ag production.
Look like losing Barwon (far west), which is at least another 13%.
Already lost Orange (central west) which is another 12%.
If Nats lose Upper Hunter, they’ve lost half our farmers.
@dailytelegraph
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Michael Daley and Penny Sharpe emerge victorious from the Labor leadership vote.
#nswpol
@dailytelegraph
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Great interview between
@StevePriceMedia
and
@afsnsw
about the
#drought
in NSW on the back of The Sunday Telegraph campaign for drought declaration, freight subsidies and more income support for farming families.
#auspol
#nswpol
#agchatoz
@dailytelegraph
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Subway shover Carlton McPherson’s big brother, Daquan, tried in vain to get him the psychiatric treatment he needed. Just two weeks ago Daquan pled with doctors not to release Carlton from a 72-hour stint in hospital.
Brother of accused NYC subway shover blames city for fatal attack — ‘failed’ him and other mentally ill people
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98% say at least one school counsellor for every 500 students should be an “urgent priority”. Currently 1:743, although there are 100 NSW schools with 1:1000+
93% of teachers want more professional development to better understand their students’ mental health.
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@tomwconnell
@ShaneRWatson33
wasn’t even watching. He and Lee were busy admiring my drive on the third at Royal Woollahra.
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Plenty of rusted on Nationals switching to Shooters, Fishers and Farmers. Spoken to 60yo farmers near Gilgandra who didn’t vote Nats for the first time in their lives. And the protest vote only gets stronger further west.
#NSWVotes2019
#nswpol
@dailytelegraph
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The phone taps are better than any true crime podcast. Listening in to gangsters bitch about each other and discuss whose eyebrows are getting waxed as a punishment. Unbelievably good reporting from
@BrendenHills
This is so so so good. A fascinating insight by
@BrendenHills
. The ST newsroom was abuzz with this report all week. Do yourself a favour and listen to audio of the phone taps online.
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Incredible before and after aerial photos of huge areas of bush that have burnt on the outskirts of NSW towns
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Groups of 10 protesters at a time let through the police line to increase social distancing at the Sydney Town Hall protest. Masks being passed around. Lawyers in crowd in case of arrests.
#blacklivesmatteraustralia
@dailytelegraph
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@stukhan
I’ve heard your feedback and had the headline changed. Just to be clear, does anyone have any issue at all with the words in the story itself?
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@samanthamaiden
The Area News receptionist made him sign in. He signed “The Devil”, which went unnoticed for days.
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Two weeks ago
@BradHazzard
realised air crews were a serious chink in our armour (see story from December 5). He instructed NSW Health to find more rigorous ways to protect against infected air crews. Why has it taken until now to confine air crews to hotels near Sydney airport?
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@DoctorKarl
Using a hydraulic system of dams, pumps and pipes, flood waters from the coastal rivers of northern Queensland would be diverted inland and across the Great Dividing Range.
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Not just juniors either, students at Plumpton High showed me emails they casually flick to the heads of finance and foreign risk at
@jpmorgan
or
@TALaustralia
like it ain’t no thing. Suspensions have plummeted, attendance is up and HSC marks are at a 20-year high.
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The woman whose property RFS volunteer Neville Smith was injured trying to save said the burns to his right hand and arm were horrific; all the skin had gone.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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Saw a bloke looking overawed at the World Trade Center. He’d just had a panic attack. It was the first time he’d returned to Ground Zero on 9/11. In ‘01 he was knocked out by the force of the collapse. When he woke up 2 hours later, he figured he was dead.
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This is domestic violence victim Azsia Johnson, 20. She was shot and killed while pushing her 3-month-old daughter in a stroller on the Upper East Side. Her organs will be donated.
with
@joemarino_
@FonrougeGab
@TinaMoorereport
@KevinSheehan865
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“We have got to do hundreds of kilometres of back burns across all these fire grounds in order to get them contained.
#NSWbushfires
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Only 5% of teachers, principals and school counsellors believe students have adequate access to trained mental health professionals and 93% of teachers want more training to better understand their students’ mental health.
“The time spent dealing with students with mental health issues dominates our day... Some of the issues revolve around social media which adds a new dimension to the role [of a teacher].” - Richard Wiseman
#GallopInquiry
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Glenreagh is the first line of defence for Coffs Harbour (40-minute drive southeast).
@NSWRFS
local firefighters are ready for Armageddon.
#NSWfires
@dailytelegraph
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