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Hotels and registered clubs in NSW will be able to extend their trading hours if they're broadcasting the FIFA Women's World Cup, which is expected to be the most attended standalone women's sporting event in history.

Thousands of fans will descend on sporting precincts across Australia and New Zealand, with 64 matches to be played over 32 days.

Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth are all hosting matches, with the final to be held in Sydney's Accor Stadium on August 20.

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The first match on home soil between Australia and Ireland on Thursday in Sydney is pegged to be the biggest opening night for the event on record.

The NSW government is supporting the event by allowing venues to extend their trading hours to stay open for live games until midnight instead of 10pm on Sunday nights.

The extension will  apply to seven matches between July 23 and August 20, including the final.

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Sydney attendees are being warned not to drive as 80,000 fans are expected for matches at Accor Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park and another 40,000 for those at Moore Park.

Transport Minister Jo Haylen said the state has put on an extra 1800 public transport services on Thursday to accommodate the surge of people in the city.

"Leave your car at home and jump on a train, light rail or one of thousands of extra bus services to and from the game," she said.

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"You can soak up the atmosphere when you're first on a train, tram or bus because all the crowds will be there," Transport for NSW Secretary Howard Collins said.

Collins did warn to allow extra time for catching public transport; even with all the extra services, there will be thousands and thousands of people swarming the city.

"Please be patient and plan your trip ahead using the Transport for NSW website," Haylen added.

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Football fans are urged to allow a bit of time after the Thursday night game before heading to catch public transport home.

Due to the number of people, there could be chaos.

If you have to drive to the game, this is Haylen's advice: "Consider using one of the park-and-ride options across the network."

"If friends or family are dropping you off, consider walking outside the precinct to the game," she added.

"There will be heavy traffic."

Any football fans heading to Sydney's sporting precincts for FIFA events should check the Transport for NSW website for the best routes.

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Not only will public transport see unprecedented numbers, NSW Police said officers will be out in force in line with kick-off.

"There will be large number of police in venues across Sydney including Olympic Park, Moore Park and Darling Harbour," Acting Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman said.

"We won't tolerate anti-social behaviour or criminal behaviour."

Chapman said police have one message for football fans this week: "Come out and enjoy this fabulous event it is going to be fantastic but be patient, be respectful of those around you and make this an event that you remember for all the right reasons."

Kick-off for the Matildas v Ireland is at 8pm at Accor Stadium on Thursday.

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A man has been found guilty of the bashing murder of a two-year-old boy after moving in with the child's mother.

Brendan Pallant, 36, faced a month-long trial in Victoria's Supreme Court after he pleaded not guilty to the murder of Jaidyn Gomes-Sebastiao in 2019.

He moved in with Jaidyn's mother, Stacie Saggers, in August 2019, 26 days before the child was found dead from head injuries in his bedroom at the Langwarrin home, prosecutors told the jury.

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Saggers put Jaidyn, affectionately known as Snuffles, to sleep on September 2 and went to a cleaning job, leaving Pallant to babysit the toddler and his older brother.

When she returned home, the couple went for a nap in their room.

Pallant told police he went to check on Jaidyn at about 4pm and found him lying on his bedroom floor with a plastic table on top of him.

The toddler was described as being "cold to touch, unconscious and not breathing" and had been dead for some time, prosecutor Mark Gibson said in his closing address.

He said Pallant killed Jaidyn with a metal table after a "short but profound period of loss of control, frustration and anger".

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Jurors retired to deliberate on Thursday and returned to the court on Tuesday.

"Guilty," the jury's foreperson said, after being asked for their verdict.

Justice Jane Dixon discharged the jury after thanking them for their service to the community.

She remanded Pallant in custody until a pre-sentence hearing in October.

"I ask that welfare checks be made on him," Justice Dixon said.

It was Pallant's second murder trial over the boy's death after a jury was unable to reach a verdict in August last year.

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A two-year-old girl swallowed a potentially deadly dose of fantasy, but her parents waited more than three hours to call an ambulance, instead searching the internet for what to do, a court has been told.

In the South Australian District Court on Tuesday, the toddler's parents were jailed after pleading guilty to criminal neglect.

The 27-year-old mother and the 29-year-old father were both daily drug users at the time of the incident in 2020.

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In sentencing, Judge Joana Fuller said they lived in squalid conditions and had left drugs in places where it was only a matter of time before they were found and consumed by their two children.

On the day in question, the older girl picked up a vial and ingested fantasy.

"Both of you failed in your duty of care towards your daughter by having illicit drugs in places to which she could have access," Judge Fuller said.

"The environment in which your daughter lived was hazardous and unsafe.

"To make matters worse instead of immediately calling an ambulance or taking your daughter to the hospital one or both of you conducted internet searches on your phone."

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The judge said by the time an ambulance was called the young girl was in a "perilous condition".

She was unconscious, unresponsive and had vomited a few times.

But in the triple zero call, her mother lied to the operator, indicating they did not know what their daughter had consumed and blamed the previous "druggo" occupant of the house who could have left something behind.

Judge Fuller said miraculously the young girl made a full recovery despite, on expert evidence, consuming a very large dose of fantasy, in excess of what could be expected to kill an adult.

She jailed the father for almost three years with a non-parole period of 19 months and the girl's mother for three years and nine months with a non-parole period of 22 months.

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