Matt Burton and Siosifa Talakai are poised to make their State of Origin debuts with NSW coach Brad Fittler making at least five changes to his team for Game II in Perth.
After decades of campaigning NSW has become the last state in Australia to pass laws allowing people with a terminal illness to voluntarily end their own life.
Residents of Lismore, the epicentre of unprecedented flood devastation earlier in the year, have blamed authorities in the first hearing of a public inquiry.
A man shot by NSW police after allegedly trying to ram officers with his car now faces drug charges as an independent review continues into the incident.
NSW Police are working to retrieve a man's body from floodwaters southwest of Sydney, after almost 2400 residents around the NSW capital were told to evacuate.
