It was only in November that Chris Minns stood across the park from the Lachlan’s Line apartments in Macquarie Park and announced his government would build 8000 new homes in the suburb.

It was the opening salvo in the government’s plan to turbocharge new housing in Sydney. He and the Planning Minister, Paul Scully, were “on a mission”, he said, “to have density done well”.

They would win over Sydney to the idea with “beautiful........

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