New Year's Eve in Sydney: Mayor, police praise well-behaved revellers

An estimated 1.6 million people converged on Sydney Harbour's great look-outs to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks, and despite the large numbers police said everyone was generally well-behaved.
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Woman dead, pedestrian injured in separate New Year's crashes

A woman has died after a car smashed into a parked vehicle in Sydney's south-west just after midnight on New Year's Day.
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Sydney's Westmead Hospital welcomes its first baby of 2018

Sydney's public hospital system has welcomed its first baby of 2018.
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Woman killed in New Year's Day car accident in Yagoona

A woman died early on New Year's Day after the car she was travelling in crashed in Sydney's south west.
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Spectacular start to 2018 as thousands head home

A blazing red countdown of fireworks has brought in 2018 as Sydney's spectacular fireworks lit up the sky for another year.
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Staff raise concerns over St Vincent's Hospital's six-week slowdown and executives' $25k bonuses

St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney has significantly extended its usual holiday slowdown period to stanch its budget blowout.
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Going for gold pitched to the federal government

Cabinet endorsed prime minister Paul Keating's intention to decline a request from NSW premier John Fahey for an extra $500 million to help develop the site and services for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, arguing that support offered to the Olympics must be "tightly targeted" for optimal effect in boosting Australia's standing.
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