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Authorities are appealing for information after a suspicious' fire at a childcare centre in Sydney's west in the early hours of Monday morning.

The ABC reports the blaze took place at a Play to Learn facility in Castle Hill. Another Play to Learn centre also caught fire in Sydney's Turramurra on Friday. NSW police said:

About 1:30am today, emergency services were called to a business in Excelsior Avenue, Castle Hill, following reports of a fire. NSW Fire and Rescue are on scene and have extinguished the blaze. There has been minor damage caused to the building.

This level of experimentation with our endangered koalas is cruel, was a catastrophic failure and should not have happened. The control settings around this translocation experiment were obviously fundamentally flawed and I don't think the public would find this level of experimentation with our endangered koalas at all acceptable.