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- Police in Sydney find a 12-year-old boy who'd been missing for two days
- Oppenheimer wins the Oscar for Best Picture
- Socceroo Martin Boyle in hospital with a head injury
The search for a missing 12-year-old boy in Sydney has come to a close after he was found safe more than 48 hours after going missing.
There were serious concerns for the boy who lives with Down syndrome and autism.
A team of around one hundred volunteers had joined the search by Monday, alongside State Emergency Services crews, PolAir and Riot squad crews.
Police say he was found 'safe and well' at around 12:40pm on Monday.
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An independent New South Wales Tolling Review is calling for a complete restructuring of Sydney's tollway network, which currently cost Sydney drivers $2.5 billion each year.
Under the recommended reset of the city's $123 billion toll burden, individual tollways could lower across Sydney, but drivers would face tolls both ways on the Harbour Bridge.
New laws enforced under the recommendations would place government in the driver’s seat when it came to price setting, with hopes costs would shift from working class suburbs to those in the more affluent eastern and northern suburbs of Sydney.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says while not all the recommendations will be followed, the report is a sobering insight and will be taken seriously.
"The report is sobering for the motorists of Sydney, in many respects it confirms what everybody has already suspected. Sydney is one of the most tolled cities on earth, and that toll burden is falling disproportionately on families and motorists and it's making it nearly impossible for many people to use the city that they love to get to work, to see family and friends, to use roads that they've used for a long period of time."
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The federal government is establishing a new 18 million capital works fund to build new and improve existing boarding facilities in Central Australia.
The Central Australia Boarding Response Fund is set to provide key funding for boarding facilities, in an effort to enable them to take on more students and improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in Central Australia.
The fund comes after the review of boarding school options in Central Australia was announced last October.
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney says the quality of boarding services is critical to the success of rural and remote students in Central Australia.
"It's absolutely astounding, particularly in these in the east. When you say to people, that if you live in a remote community in Northern Territory, and you probably have to leave home, leave country to get a secondary education. These competitive $18-million-dollar grants around will be available for existing and potentially other providers to apply for up to $10 million to expand upgrade improve their boarding facilities."
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Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has won the Oscar Award for Best Picture, as well as picking up awards in six other categories.
Emma Stone took home best actress for her role in Poor Things while Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy took home the win for Best Actor.
Oppenheimer also won Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography and Robert Downey Jr took home Best Supporting Actor for his role in the three-hour biopic.
The Barbie Movie claimed the Best Original Song award for Billie Eilish's "What was I made for?" but won no other awards despite its massive success at the box office.
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In football,
Socceroos star Martin Boyle is in a stable condition in hospital after suffering a head injury in Hibernian's Scottish Cup quarter-final defeat by Rangers.
The winger was taken off on a stretcher after falling awkwardly while battling for a high ball with John Souttar.
The knock will be a concern for Socceroos boss Graham Arnold, so close to Australia's World Cup qualifier against Lebanon in Sydney on the 21st of March.
