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Melbourne overtakes Sydney as Australia’s biggest city

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Melbourne: Melbourne has overtaken Sydney as the biggest city of Australia, a title the latter had held on to for more than 100 years.
With populations rapidly growing on Melbourne’s fringe, the city limits have been expanded to include the area of Melton, the BBC reported on Monday.
The latest government figures, from June 2021, put Melbourne’s population at 4,875,400 — 18,700 more than Sydney.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines a city’s “significant urban area”, by including all connecting suburbs with more than 10,000 people.
“Until the 2021 census definition, the Sydney significant area had a higher population than Melbourne. However, with the amalgamation of Melton into Melbourne in the latest… classification, Melbourne has more people than Sydney — and has had since 2018, ” the ABS’s Andrew Howe told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Monday, which described the redrawn boundary as “a technicality”.
Proud Sydneysiders will point to the ABS’s conclusion that when looking at the greater Sydney and Melbourne regions, Sydney remained bigger in June 2021.
Greater regions of a city take into account its “functional area”, the ABS says, and include populations who regularly socialise, shop or work within the city, but may live in small towns and rural areas surrounding it.
However the federal government predicts Greater Melbourne will overtake Greater Sydney in 2031-32.

This is not the first time Melbourne has held the title of Australia’s biggest city.
As a result of the gold rush in the late 19th century, which saw migrants flock to the state of the Victoria, Melbourne grew rapidly and outnumbered Sydney until 1905.
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April 17, 2023
How to judge a prize-winning guinea pig – video
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With two decades of experience judging guinea pig contests, Debbie Lawrie knows what makes a great cavy. She shares what she was looking for while judging the competition at the 2023 Sydney Royal Easter show
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April 15, 2023
Dominic Perrottet backs NSW ban on gay conversion practices as Sydney WorldPride begins

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A ban on gay conversion practices has secured the support of both major parties in New South Wales after Dominic Perrottet gave the reform “in-principle” backing on the first day of Sydney WorldPride.
“There is no room for any harmful practices in NSW, particularly if they affect our young and vulnerable,” the premier said. “When the parliament returns, my government will provide in-principle support for legislation that brings an end to any harmful practices.
“This is a complex matter and in working through it with parliamentary colleagues we will carefully consider the legal expression and effect of such laws.”
So-called gay conversion “therapy”, which has been outlawed in other east coast states, tries to change or suppress a person’s sexuality.
The Coalition’s support marks a major win for the independent Sydney MP, Alex Greenwich, who this month revealed he would introduce legislation to ban the practices.
At the time he said the major parties’ position on the bill would be key in a decision on who he would support in the case of a hung parliament after the 25 March state election.
“I’m grateful for the premier’s support to end LGBT conversion practices in NSW,” Greenwich said on Friday. “We start Sydney WorldPride with both Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns backing legislation to support and protect the LGBTQ community in NSW. This is a good day for our state.”
Ghassan Kassisieh, the legal director of the national LGBTQ+ group Equality Australia, said the premier’s commitment was “a welcome first step”.

“Any scheme to end conversion practices will only be effective if it is inclusive of practices that seek to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity occurring in either health and religious settings, and include a civil scheme focused on stopping conversion practices before they cause harm,” he said.
Minns last week confirmed that a Labor government would ban the “dangerous and damaging” practices.
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“We should not have a situation where children are being told something is wrong with them and that they need to be fixed,” he said.
Labor would set up a working group with survivors, advocates and government departments including NSW Health and justice to draft the laws, he said.
Key figures organising parts of Sydney WorldPride and Mardi Gras on Thursday issued a warning to the NSW government that the “world is watching”.
The 17-day festival celebrating LGBTQ+ pride kicks off on Friday and includes parties, a human rights conference and a march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 5 March that is tipped to attract half a million people.
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February 17, 2023
Sydney shark attack: beaches in north closed after dolphin mauled

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A shark attack on a dolphin has forced lifeguards to clear swimmers from the water on Sydney’s northern beaches.
The attack by multiple bull sharks off Shelly Beach near Manly occurred about 7am on Saturday, Surf Life Saving New South Wales (SLSNSW) said.
Lifeguards closed Shelly and Manly beaches for the rest of the day following the attack, which also resulted in the cancellation of the Manly Open Surf Classic surf life-saving event.
Footage captured by a drone and released by SLSNSW appeared to show at least two sharks off the beach while the dolphin struggled to swim in the shallows with injuries visible to its tail and side. The dolphin later died.
Images of the dolphin released by SLSNSW showed at least five bite marks across its body.
“Surf lifesavers and lifeguards cleared swimmers from the water and a large surf carnival has been suspended,” SLSNSW said. “A Surf Life Saving UAV [drone] has been monitoring the shark activity from the air and has spotted a number of sharks in the area.”
A witness to the attack told the Nine Network one of the sharks was about 3m long. Emily Pettersson said she heard about the injured dolphin so she swam into the shallows to try and find it.
Images of the dolphin released by SLSNSW showed at least five bite marks across its body. Photograph: Surf Life Saving NSW
“Probably about 20m out front of the beach and I see the dolphin swim past on one side and I see a shadow on the right side,” Pettersson told Nine.

“So I turned around and there’s probably about a three-metre bull shark but it wasn’t even looking at me, it was just going for the dolphin.”
Another witness told the ABC that they had been on the beach and “we saw this dolphin just swimming around in the bay, which we thought was absolutely wonderful.
“And the next thing, we walked on and saw, ‘hang on, there’s been a shark spotted, so we cannot go into the water’.
“[We] came back and then saw the dolphin was here, on the beach, which is really incredibly sad.”
Jools Farrell, the vice-president of the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA), told the Manly Observer the dolphin had died from its injuries.
She said it was unclear if an autopsy would be conducted, but it was possible the dolphin was sick before the attack.
“We’re thinking it was an unwell dolphin to start with, so that’s why it would’ve stranded on the beach,” Farrell.
“In that area there are quite a lot of sharks around, and if there is a dolphin in the area that is unwell, that would attract sharks as they can sense it.”
Fatal shark attacks on people in Sydney are rare. In February last year, a man died near Little Bay Beach in the city’s south-east, in the first fatal unprovoked shark attack in Sydney since 1963.
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January 21, 2023