Pair trying to catch fish net $87,000 in cash

Two Australian teenagers who found almost 100,000 Australian dollars ($87,000) in cash during a fishing trip have handed it over to police — after spending some time thinking about it. The pair discovered the money earlier this month near the New South Wales town of Nimbin — a center of hippie culture where members of numerous communes annually celebrate a festival to promote cannabis use.

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Plan to nurture test-tube sharks

Keeping squabbling children apart is a problem that taxes all parents, but for the grey nurse shark it is a little more serious. Its embryos have a nasty habit of eating each other in the uterus.

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A man has been charged with money laundering after police allegedly found $1.5 million inside the boot of his Mercedes-Benz in Sydney's west yesterday.

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Twenty years after the brutal rape and murder of a Newcastle schoolgirl, there are claims more advanced DNA technology could have changed the outcome of the case.

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An elderly man apparently drove "more than 600 km" (approximately 400 miles) "off course" after making a "wrong turn" on November 16, 2009.

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The New South Wales Government has reversed its policy on solar power - meaning households with solar energy systems will soon be paid for all of the electricity they generate.

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FIVE cars in the front yard of a suburban Sydney home have been firebombed in a bizarre attack and a mother and three children have been rescued from a burning home.

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A staff member of the right-wing NSW Liberal MP David Clarke has stood aside after being linked to a spoof You Tube video involving Adolf Hitler.

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A 12-YEAR-OLD girl from Dubbo who became pregnant to her 15-year-old live-in boyfriend has given birth to a boy.

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JOHN DELLA BOSCA, the MP being described as ''delusional'' by colleagues, believes he can still be premier.

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A Sydney father who defamed a school principal in an email attacking her competency has been ordered to pay her $82,543 in damages.

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An experiment to re-introduce eradicated native bush rats to the Sydney region is underway in an attempt to reduce the city's black rats from bushland.

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The kid from the back blocks of Waratah West is not sure how much of the $2.7 million prizemoney he will earn for his seven days in India watching NSW win the Champion League Twenty20. NSW players are understood to be pocketing $50,000 each from the prizemoney.

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The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is supporting calls to introduce compulsory reporting of sales of cold and flu tablets.

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Australian film director George Miller says pre-production work will start next week on the latest Mad Max film, which will be produced in New South Wales.

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A Newcastle family is pleading with the New South Wales Government to find permanent accommodation for their profoundly disabled eight-year-old son.

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Transport authorities have reported "smooth sailing so far" in the first peak hour since new bus and train timetables were introduced yesterday.

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A PHARMACIST has stopped selling contraceptives because of his strong religious beliefs.

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A camp dog from an outback central Australian community has moved from death row to millionaires row after being adopted by a resident in one of Sydney's richest suburbs.

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A Sydney barrister has admitted misleading the courts and his clients, telling a corruption inquiry he had an alcohol problem so serious that he would sometimes talk to his refrigerator.

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A WOMAN has been charged after trying to steal a Chihuahua puppy at gunpoint, police said today.

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Bundanoon is today celebrating the move to rid its shops of bottled water, with locals turning on four new free filtered public drinking stations which will be open 24 hours a day.

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Legislation will be introduced into the New South Wales Parliament today to give the State Government the power to cancel the public housing lease of convicted paedophile Dennis Ferguson.

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Sydneysiders are being warned that a huge dust cloud will continue to affect the city through the day, after they woke to an eerie red dawn this morning.

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Two Sydney men have broken the world record for the longest-held handshake.

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A Sydney barrister secured $12,000 from three clients accused of sexual assault, claiming it would be used to influence prosecutors in the case, a corruption inquiry has been told.

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SECURITY at one of Sydney's biggest hospitals is so lax that anyone can walk into the morgue and claim a body without showing identification, prompting fears that corpses could be wrongly removed or defiled.

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