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MORNING BRIEFING: The NSW Government sought out private advice on how to persuade Virgin Australia to move to Sydney, while a couple have been charged with the theft of a $40,000 dog statue.

The NSW Government paid a private consulting firm $750,000 to help with its failed bid to move Virgin Australia's main office to Sydney, it has been revealed.

Opposition MP Walt Secord said it was an extraordinary contract considering Treasury could have provided the advice. Sir Don would play afternoon scratch matches on the concrete wicket, which is next to the church and opposite Bowral Primary school, which he attended. "In years to come people will ask us why … did we let that go? I would love to see this retained so the children of Bowral and visitors of Bowral could actually experience that same environment that Bradman had," he said.Sydney Airport workers laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic and staff cuts by airlines are taking their campaign for more help to the Prime Minister's own electorate today.

A man and woman have been charged with the theft of a $40,000 statue of a dog in Sydney's south-west. "Under these reforms adopted people will now be able to use what's called an integrative birth certificate that will include information about an adopted person's birth parents and birth siblings as well as their adopted parents and adopted siblings," he said.A giant moth, not a raindrop, landed on Yvonne Kenny during the Olympic closing ceremony.

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