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Tuesday: Sydney's trains to return with limited services amid ongoing industrial action dispute. Plus: machetes and divvy vans at Painters and Dockers' worst gig

Good morning. Sydney residents can expect more train troubles today, with limited services to resume after Monday's shutdown as the dispute between the rail union and the NSW government continues.

More strikes are inevitable" this year if the NSW government refuses to scrap its 2.5% wages cap, say unions after rail chaos hit Sydney. A long-running industrial dispute between the Rail, Tram and Bus Union and NSW government saw staff across the state's transport network locked out" and train services ground to a halt on Monday. The transport union has accused the NSW government of playing politics with commuters, and the state government has ramped up its anti-union rhetoric, with the NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, describing the action as a coordinated attack by the Labor party and the union movement". The NSW transport minister, David Elliott, liked it to terrorist-like activity", then accused RTBU of acting like cowards", spreading bullshit" and hijacking the city".