A transgender woman who attacked two people with an axe in a Sydney 7-Eleven has been sentenced to a minimum of four and a half years behind bars.
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Evie Amati jailed for brutal axe attacks at Sydney 7-ElevenAmati attacked strangers with an axe at Enmore, claiming her mental health had deteriorated since she started taking hormones to transition from male to female.
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Two unvaccinated children bring measles to Sydney from Sri Lanka | Sky News AustraliaTwo unvaccinated children have been diagnosed with measles in Sydney after returning from a trip to Sri Lanka.\n\nNSW Health has issued a warning to those who travelled on flight SQ221 with the children, which arrived in Sydney from Singapore on January 11.\n\nThe children also caught a train on January 11 from Sydney International Airport to Meadowbank via Central.\n\nNSW Health’s Dr Vicky Sheppeard is urging anyone susceptible to measles who may have come into contact with the children to be aware of the symptoms of the disease.\n\nIt brings the number of Sydney measles cases to eight in the past three weeks.\n\n\n\n\n
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Rally calling for pill testing to be held in Sydney | Sky News AustraliaA rally will be held in Sydney on Saturday with the public demanding the introduction of pill testing at music festivals in NSW.\n\nIt follows the Royal Australasian College of Physicians calling for pill testing in an open letter to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThere have been five deaths at music festivals in the state in four months.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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MPs join crowds in Sydney pill testing rally | Sky News AustraliaLarge crowds have taken to the streets of Sydney calling for New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian to introduce pill testing at festivals following a number of suspected drug overdoses.\n\nGreens leader Richard Di Natale addressed the crowds along with independent MP Kerryn Phelps and Greens MP David Shoebridge, urging the Premier to 'get out of the way' on pill testing.\n\nThe rally comes amid the state's government introduces tough new music festival regulations, which will require events to meet minimum safety standards from March 1.\n\nMs Berejiklian has dismissed public outcry, insisting pill tesing would only encourage drug use.\n\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Beloved Sydney schoolboy dies in Austrian avalanche | Sky News AustraliaThe teenager who died in an avalanche while skiing with his family in Austria has been identified as 16-year-old Max Meyer. \n\nAustrian police say the teenager was skiing with his parents and brother when a snow shelf fell and buried him at the ski village in St Anton am Arlberg on Wednesday local time. \n\nMax was set to start year 11 at the International Grammar School in Ultimo, where tributes are today flowing for the teenager.\n\n\n\n
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Man charged over assault of young girl at Sydney dance studio | Sky News AustraliaA man charged over the alleged physical and sexual assault of a young girl at a Sydney dance studio will face court on Tuesday on dozens of charges.\n\nThe 55-year-old allegedly sexually assaulted the seven-year-old girl at knife-point at the Kogarah studio, last November.\n\nHe's also accused of stabbing a man who came to the aid of the young victim. \n\nSince the incident, investigators have identified and interviewed other potential victims who reported they had also received offensive and obscene phone calls.\n\nHe has now been charged with 87 counts of using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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