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Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel drivers would be charged tolls in both directions under shakeup

Drivers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel would be forced to pay fees in both directions under the NSW government’s interim report of its review into Sydney’s toll road network. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images

NSW government’s interim report on Sydney’s toll road network would use a ‘declining distance-based rate’ of tolling

Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Sydneysiders driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel should be forced to pay fees in both directions, a review into the city’s patchwork toll road network has recommended, alongside a vision to unify all paid roads under a consistent “declining distance-based rate” of tolling.… Read the rest

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The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, wins Oscar for best animation

Hayao Miyazaki. Photograph: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Master Japanese director wins his second Oscar for story of a young boy searching for his mother during the second world war

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The Boy and the Heron, supposedly the final film from Japanese master director Hayao Miyazaki, has won the Oscar for best animated feature film at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

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Mount Everest is too crowded and dirty, says last living member of Hillary team

Kanchha was one of three Sherpas to go to the last camp on Everest along with Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Photograph: Niranjan Shrestha/AP

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, says more respect should be shown to sacred peak that has been climbed thousands of times since 1953 ascent

Associated Press in Kathmandu

The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest has said the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected.

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