GOOD morning and welcome to the Morning Buzz for Friday, September 23. Today’s weather will be partly cloudy with a top temperature of around 21 degrees.
News Buzz
MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: The Hume Highway in Liverpool has topped an insurance company’s list of worst accident hot spots in Sydney. The M4 Motorway through Parramatta sits as the second most dangerous stretch of road and the Pennant Hills Road in Pennant comes in at number three.
TODDLER HURT: An 18-month-old Blacktown boy is in a stable condition after he fell and hit his head on Thursday morning.
BAIRD ‘UNELECTABLE’: Maverick Nationals backbencher Andrew Fraser is trying to ramp up the pressure on Premier Mike Baird and Deputy Premier Troy Grant over the greyhound racing ban, warning in a letter to cabinet ministers it has made the government "unelectable".
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING: NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has declared a "war over fairness" and accused the federal government of abandoning public schools as negotiations between ministers over the future of education funding look set to break down before they have even begun.
A GREAT TOWN: Travel agency Discount My Flights Australia chose Camden in its annual list of the top 50 small towns across the country. Check out our map to see which other places made the cut.
SHOCK MOVE: Campbelltown Council looks set to endorse a mayor for the next year four years, in a dramatic shift from the arrangement last term which saw four mayors take the reins for a year each.
TOP HONOUR: They have owned their business for less than a year, but Scott and Keira Evans are already making their mark at East Blaxland Butchery. The husband and wife team took out the gong for best butcher/delicatessen at the Penrith City Local Business Awards.
DAYLIGHT SAVING: Daylight saving would be wound back by a month under a proposal from a member of the NSW coalition who says the practice is unfairly burdening people in the state's west.
Sports Buzz
SCOOTER PROMISE: Bowen Mountain’s Lachlan Whiteley handles his scooter with the poise of someone who has been riding them for years, even though in June he turned two.
CRONULLA SHARKS: Sharks supporters are out in force and excited ahead of their side’s NRL preliminary final with the North Queensland Cowboys tonight.
PENRITH PANTHERS: Matt Moylan and Bryce Cartwright have extended their contracts with the Penrith Panthers until the end of the 2021 season.
GIANTS NETBALL: Baulkham Hills-born netballer Kristina Brice will return to Sydney to line up for new Giants Netball side for the new Australian National Netball League.