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Three of the seven recommendations initially proposed by the Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer did not make the final report into lead contamination in Broken Hill, documents released through parliament this week reveal.

Plan to protect children from toxic metals erased from NSW government report

The state’s chief scientist warned delayed action on lead contamination put generations of children at risk of lifelong complications.

  • Angus Thomson

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Broken Hill house prices have soared.

NSW regional towns where house prices soared 20 per cent in a year

A string of relatively affordable areas have been highly sought by tree-changers and investors.

  • Carmen Forward
Nova and Atlas Pearce play in their front yard in Broken Hill. The town’s Indigenous children have blood lead levels double those of the general population.

The $150m solution to Broken Hill’s pollution crisis

Newly released documents reveal health and environment authorities believed child blood lead levels would stay high unless taxpayers stumped up millions more each year.

  • Angus Thomson
Atlas Pearce plays in his front yard in South Broken Hill, as mother Darcy watches on.

The housing crisis leaving children crawling in poison

Darcy Pearce and her two toddlers were forced out of their rental when the local health service identified concerning levels of lead in her daughter’s blood.

  • Angus Thomson
A Broken Hill man was allegedly filmed beating and torturing animals including kangaroos.

‘Deeply disturbing’: Man charged over animal cruelty videos

A Broken Hill man was allegedly filmed torturing kangaroos and farm animals in a series of videos too graphic to publish.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Going nuts for Nutbush.

This unique festival has Nutbush, dress-ups and the best of Oz music

Landing solo at this festival hundreds of kilometres from the nearest major city should be intimidating. But there’s too much to like.

  • Melissa Mason
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Will the Donald consider the apple of his isle?

“We have to build a seawall. We have no choice!”

Hugo Weaving on the Palace Hotel balcony in 1993.

The town that grew ‘on the back of a group of drag queens’

The spiritual home of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and the shearing shed that inspired Banjo Paterson’s Flash Jack have been lauded in NSW’s heritage register.

  • Julie Power
Nathan Kulinitsch is restoring his house in Dawes Point.

Nathan’s grand renovation dream had serious challenges. The answer was 1000km away

The multimillion-dollar Dawes Point home is one of Sydney’s oldest buildings. Its new owners had no idea of the complexities that lay ahead.

  • Catherine Naylor
The town of Broken Hill in western NSW was cut off from normal power supply earlier this month.

It has been called NSW’s ‘friendliest city’. The mayor says that might be about to change

Broken Hill has endured 10 days of rolling power outages after a storm cut the outback city off from the electricity network.

  • Christopher Harris