Sydney Now: What you need to know on Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Good morning

It's a (possibly) wet and mild Tuesday with a top of 24 degrees in the city, 26 in Parramatta and what the Bureau of Meteorology reckons is a 40 per cent chance of late afternoon storms.

Rainy afternoons the rule

It's going to be a bit like that (potentially stormy) for the rest of the week, 'mafraid. 

Sydney's most (politically) troubled hospital is upgraded, but work never ends

Premier Mike Baird announced plans for a $550 million upgrade of Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west. That's after the Liberal party took a pounding in a recent federal election in the area with the state of the emergency department a major issue.

But like so many leaking dams the problems with the city's hospital network do not seem to end. In an exclusive report today, Fairfax reveals 50,000 new patients entered the hospital network last year. That helps explain why the government remains well behind meeting its priority target of discharging 81 per cent of patients within four hours.

Good news for Gomez

A third missing Marmoset monkey stolen from a wildlife park south of Sydney has been recovered.

Meanwhile an insight into the criminal minds behind the plot to sell Gomez, 10, and two others from a report on proceedings in court yesterday from a series of text messages tendered to court:

"Ay check out my monkey".

Jackson responded: "Thats mad bro wanna sell it bruh ahah? Bruh wanna sell that monkey thing ahah"

Chilling.

Fancy burgers
 

Alert issued about gym membership peddlers

NSW Fair Trading has issued a public warning not to deal with a fitness centre operator, which advertises "state-of-the-art facilities" and runs out of a high school in Sydney's west.

A change in the NRL

ARL Chairman John Grant last week: "I expect to be here in five years."

Today: not so likely.

Selling the sun to China

The CSIRO is making a push to bid for Chinese energy projects using Australian technology.

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