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Here's what you need to know this morning.
Clean energy to be Premier's focus
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is preparing to leave for his first overseas trade trip as the state leader in an attempt to attract global investment.
Mr Perrottet will travel to Japan, India and Korea, with the Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres joining him for the Indian leg of the trip.
His trip is being overshadowed by a parliamentary inquiry investigating how former deputy premier John Barilaro was appointed as the trade commissioner to the Americas.
Mr Barilaro has since withdrawn from the role.
It is Mr Perrottet's first trip abroad for a NSW premier since the borders closed due to COVID-19 and the first for Mr Perrottet since taking office.
He is due to visit the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Hiroshima, Seoul in South Korea and Mumbai and Bengaluru in India.
In India he will be joined by Mr Ayres, who is Minister for Enterprise, Investment and Trade, Minister for Tourism and Sport, and Minister for Western Sydney.
It was expected that trade officials would visit India annually in a new bid to grow business ties.
Second charge in girl, 9, shooting
A second man has been charged following a shooting in Sydney's south earlier this month.
A mother and her three children were ambushed by a gunman when they arrived home. Police say several shots were fired at them.
A girl aged 9 was hit by a bullet in the hip and was taken to Randwick Children's Hospital where she underwent surgery.
A 21-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night over his alleged involvement in a shooting in Connells Point, on July 8.
He was taken to Bankstown Police Station and charged with shoot at with intent to murder.
A man aged 34 was arrested earlier and remains before the courts.
Women's FIFA countdown
The one year countdown to the FIFA women's World Cup is being celebrated in Sydney this morning.
The world's biggest women's sporting event will be co-hosted for the first time by Australia and New Zealand, and has been expanded to 32 teams.
A "unity pitch" to encourage more women and girls to take up the sport will be unveiled at Sydney's Barangaroo Reserve today.
School employee allegedly faked vaccine
An employee at a school in Sydney's west will face court for providing a fraudulent COVID-19 certificate.
It comes after detectives investigating an organised crime network in the city's south-west searched the woman's home, seizing cash, documents and electronic items.
The 55-year-old has been charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime, obtaining financial advantage by deception and participating in a criminal group activity.
Coercive control draft bill open for consultation
The NSW government is consulting the public over a draft bill to outlaw coercive control ahead of its introduction to parliament.
Last year, a parliamentary committee found coercive control should be criminalised following at least 29 preventable murders of women and children in 2020 alone.
A report, tabled to parliament following the inquiry, found existing state laws did not adequately cover coercive and controlling behaviour.
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman said it had taken more than a year to get to this point because of the complexity of the issue.
"It's critical that we have consultation to ensure that the reforms only capture very serious incidents of abuse," he said.
"They [should] avoid overreach and that they don't unintentionally endanger the very people in our community that we're seeking to help."
Mr Speakman said the state government was well-advanced to introduce a final bill to parliament in spring.
People can comment on the draft bill on the Have Your Say website.
Patients frustrated with delays
Patients waiting for elective surgery are frustrated at more suspensions and delays due to COVID-19.
Since the pandemic began, already lengthy waits for elective surgery, have blown out further.
The Australian Medical Association wants a national response, with the same resourcing and planning as is provided in the wake of a natural disaster.
Eddy Schaap has been waiting more than a year for surgery for carpel tunnel syndrome, which causes severe pain in his arm.
"When I do work, the pain is there, the discomfort, the tingling is there, pretty much from the shoulder down," Mr Schaap said.
The most recent national data is from the first year of the pandemic and shows wait times increased for almost every surgical procedure.