NITV Radio News - 19/01/2026

Signs are seen near the site of a fatal shark attack at Dee Why Beach in Sydney

Closed beach. Source: AP / Mark Baker

A boy is fighting for his life after being bitten by a shark at a popular beach in Sydney's east.


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Hundreds of people have defied police restrictions on protests in New South Wales to demonstrate in Sydney against Indigenous deaths in custody.

Police say they are yet to establish a motive for the placement of pipe bombs near Lake Jininderra in Canberra last week.

Rescue efforts are continuing this afternoon across New South Wales, even as conditions begin to ease along the east coast that has been battered by strong winds and heavy rain.

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