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Bevan Shields

Bevan Shields

Bevan Shields was editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and is now a senior writer.

The science of poker machines

Rare bright spot in an area dogged by lobbying and political backflips

An exemption that allowed hundreds of pubs and clubs to extend gaming between 4am and 10am has been clawed back by the Minns government.

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Cash often moves a portfolio toward the lower end of the expected return spectrum.

$179m a week or $1.1m per hour: The shocking numbers crushing Sydney

In the past three years, NSW punters have lost $27 billion through poker machines – equivalent to the cost of the massive Metro West rail project.

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The winners and losers in brutal battle for Sydney radio supremacy

The Sydney radio market, where kings and queens are crowned – or decapitated – with astonishing speed, is undergoing a seismic shift.

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Some of the Iranians applying to stay in Australia.

Iranian soccer players got asylum overnight. These refugees reveal a very different story

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s intervention was swift and decisive. But it was bittersweet for other refugees trapped in a system described as cruel and unfair.

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The section of the Great Western Highway which is threatening to collapse.

‘Major failure’: Key Blue Mountains highway to be closed for at least three months

With 12,000 vehicles using the road every day, the prolonged blockage will affect the delivery times and cost of produce from the region to Sydney.

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The Great Western Highway where it’s closed.

‘Mind-blowing’: How a convict-built crossing closed a Blue Mountains highway

The Great Western Highway is now shut indefinitely, as a stone causeway that’s almost 200 years old threatens to collapse under the weight of neglect and political indecision.

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Micky Ahuja at Tuesday’s bizarre press conference.

Agitated, exasperated and facing an accusation avalanche: Security boss in bizarre press event

Micky Ahuja’s defence essentially boils down to a view that he is simultaneously the most unlucky and most unfairly targeted man in the nation.

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A residential building that was heavily damaged after a Russian strike on Ternopil in Ukraine on Wednesday.

It’s time to stop paying Putin

The Herald this week launched our latest campaign, “Blood Oil”, showing how oil imported to Australia is helping Vladimir Putin pursue his war on Ukraine. It’s sick, it’s wrong and it needs to end.

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More than 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the rally on Saturday.

The chilling story we’ve thrown everything at covering

I believe it is the media’s job to call out white supremacists and make sure the public knows how serious the threat is.

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Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Sorry, but I struggle to get outraged about Trump’s White House renos

There has been more outrage over the demolition of a boring building than there has been over the US president’s musings about a third term.

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