Sydney Trains worker killed by train and other top stories.

• Sydney Trains worker killed by train

  

  A Sydney Trains employee was struck and killed by a train between Clyde and Auburn early on Saturday. Photo: Fiona Morris  Sydney rail workers are "shattered" after a Sydney Trains employee was struck and killed by a train on Saturday.Charles Lagaaia was working on the T1 Western Line at Clyde when he was struck by a train just after 6am.Authorities are investigating how Mr Lagaaia, a signal mechanic, was killed by a Blue Mountains service in the course of co..

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• 'I'm defending democracy': Palmer

  

  'I'm defending democracy': Palmer

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• Polling puts Labor and Coalition in tight race but voters predict Turnbull win

  

  A Fairfax-Ipsos poll shows Labor maintaining a narrow lead over the Coalition while the latest Newspoll suggests the opposition is not securing enough votes in key marginal seats to win the election. The Ipsos poll puts Labor ahead at 51-49 in two-party preferred terms but shows 54% of voters continue to predict a Coalition victory. The latest Newspoll for the Weekend Australian surveyed 10 government-held marginal seats plus the Adelaide seat of Mayo. It found Labor was not securing enough vot..

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• Sydney weather: A wet Sunday forecast as flood warnings issued for NSW

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. East coast low impact zones Heavy rainfall and high winds are seen tracking south over the weekend in this detail model generated by Weatherzone. PT0M31S 620 349 Sydney is set for a wet Sunday, with heavy rainfall intensifying in the afternoon, as an east coast low brings a severe weather warning to the Illawarra and south coast.A clear Saturday evening will give way to rain before dawn, which will steadily intensify into the afternoon as the lo..

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• 'My heart breaks': body of missing fisherman recovered

  

  Red Rock Headland, north of Coffs Harbour, where the 26-year-old fisherman went missing on Thursday. Source: Google Maps. The body of a man discovered on the state's Mid North Coast is believed to be 26-year-old fisherman Michael Fernance, who went missing on Thursday.Police were called to Corindi Beach, about 36km north of Coffs Harbour, at about 1.30pm on Saturday after a body was sighted in the water.The body is yet to be formally identified, but police bel..

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• How difficult is it to get into Sydney's best-performing high schools?

  

  Published minimum entry scores show how well students need to perform on the selective schools test to gain entry. Photo: Jacky Ghossein You can move house. You can pay for years of tutoring at up to $100 an hour. But to get a start in year 7 at one of Sydney's best performing high schools, none of that counts if you don't perform well enough in the selective high schools placement test. Figures released by the NSW Department of Education show just how well y..

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