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A mine worker believed to be in his 50s has died after being hit by a truck at the United Wambo Open Cut coal mine west of Singleton.

The mine is suspending operations as investigations continue.

What's next?

A report will be prepared for the coroner.

“I remember when I went to an exclusive event through a betting company, that was hosted in a rental on the canals of the Gold Coast.

“The entire sort of C-suite of the company was there, all the management team, administration, and they were sort of all in a back room doing drugs together, and I was out in this room doing drugs with all of them.

“This is like the CEO, the founders, the VIP managers. And at that stage … I would have been a 23-year-old.

“I put my hand up, I was a willing participant of that, [but] these are men in positions of power with influence who should be looking out for your welfare, and this is the kind of behavior that they are drawing you into, encouraging you into, and coaxing you into and normalising.”**

The betting industry: rotten on the outside and rotting on the inside.

The aircraft, registered F-WULR, flew across the Pacific, the United States and the Atlantic on the return leg of its major flight-test campaign. The marathon journey marks one of the longest continuous flights ever undertaken by a commercial aircraft type.

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In June, Transgrid said its Western Sydney network is almost full after it cleared 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of data centres to connect, and said it’s “in advanced discussions” over another 8 GW of prospective load.

The general rule of them is that network costs are fixed and divided by the number of customers. Given the boost in data centres, Ausgrid, which runs the poles and wires that take electricity from transmission lines to homes and businesses, wants to see the benefits of that improved network use now.

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A police officer allegedly bashed a naked, handcuffed man then sought to cover up the incident following his arrest, according to explosive court documents.

An email exchange between police officers has been released by the courts to the ABC as part of the man's civil case for compensation.

What's next?

The Commonwealth doesn't admit the allegations and is due to file a defence to additional claims next week.

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The National Tertiary Education Union says two decorated academics were illegally sacked because of their advocacy and is taking legal action to have them reinstated.

Macquarie University denied the accusations "in the strongest possible terms", saying its redundancy process was "rigorous and fair".

What's next?

The union said it was extremely rare for it to fund this kind of legal action.