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NSW Labor (and plenty of trainspotters) celebrated some highs in 2024, largely thanks to the government having the good fortune of being able to cut...
To buy itself more time and escape the wrath – and campaigning prowess – of the state’s powerful clubs and pubs ahead of last year’s election,...
The one-time federal Labor leader Mark Latham – who has a history of defecting to political parties willing to take him – finished the 2024...
The one-time Liberal transport minister David Elliott used to boast about his collegial relationship with the all-powerful Rail, Tram and Bus Union....
Colette Duff is angry and ready to quit her job. Duff, a registered nurse with 30 years of experience, works in the emergency department of Sutherland...
It is easy to begrudge private health insurance. It is even easier to begrudge private health insurers. They are the smaller cousins to the big banks...
On Sydney’s insular peninsula, which has always voted blue except for a dalliance with an independent in 2005, the NSW Liberals were not prepared to...
For a bill that was left languishing in NSW parliament for more than a year, it moved with incredible pace once an Olympic swimming great, a bishop,...
Like most parents with young kids, I assume mine will live with us forever. Or at least far longer than most of my generation stayed at home. It will...
The new kid on the conservative block reckons it has the answer to the state’s crippling housing crisis. Approve every development application...
The looming byelections in Epping, Hornsby and Pittwater are somewhat unusual for the NSW Liberals. Not because two of the seats were left empty by...
Of course Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media. As a mother of an almost...
Of course Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media. As a mother of an almost...
Of course Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media. As a mother of an almost...
Of course Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media. As a mother of an almost...
If we needed a further reminder of the Liberals’ woeful ability to carry out basic admin critical to the party’s functions, it was on full display...
If we ever needed a reminder of the weird world that is Sydney schooling, it was the spectacle of parents hacking the NSW Department of Education’s...
From little kids waving cardboard signs to trainspotters, long-suffering commuters and people – like me – who simply love being part of history:...
The catastrophic administrative bungle that has plunged the NSW Liberals into chaos will have long-lasting impacts for a party that needs to regroup...
Sydney has become accustomed to the eternal wait for trains. Whether it’s the go-slow network every time heavy rain hits the city or missed...
When a senior public servant is lurching from controversy to controversy, any misstep can explode into a full-blown crisis. NSW Police Commissioner...
It was a blunt and unexpected message from NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns. Public servants, who make up the biggest workforce in the country, are to...
NSW Premier Chris Minns may have faced the judgment of voters a little over a year ago but the first-term Labor leader will come up against a far...
Amid rising anger at the Coalition government’s snap decision in 2016 to ban greyhound racing, a trusted cabinet colleague urged then-premier Mike...
The barely known upper house NSW Nationals MP Wes Fang likes to boast to colleagues that he is a more effective operator in opposition than in...
As they clumsily tie themselves in knots trying simultaneously to be both YIMBYs and NIMBYs, the NSW Liberals managed to bury a sound housing policy...
For a time after last year’s election loss, former Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet and his treasurer and deputy leader Matt Kean toyed with...
With housing and health at its core, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has delivered a very Labor budget. He had little choice. The most pressing issue...
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has delivered his second budget. Six of our experts – Alexandra Smith, Matt Wade, Matt O’Sullivan, Michael Koziol,...
You know you’re good when you can even do itWith a broken heartYou know you’re goodAnd I’m goodCause I’m miserable!And no one even knows!Try...
Talk about awkward. It was not even 18 months ago that one of the NSW Liberals’ most senior ministers was fighting for his political life. He did...
Premier Chris Minns calls it rebalancing Sydney. Finally, after many months of angst from local councils over the uncertainty of looming building...
Premier Chris Minns has struck a deal with Origin Energy that is far more palatable than most expected. But it is not without risk. The former Liberal...
Over the weekend, voters in the safe Nationals seat of Bathurst were being polled on whether they would be happy with a nuclear reactor in their...
NSW Premier Chris Minns outlined precisely why NSW should follow the lead of Victoria and South Australia and hold a royal commission into the...
NSW’s specially convened cabinet meeting on Friday, the day after Molly Ticehurst was laid to rest after being allegedly murdered by an ex-partner,...
Sydney’s only daytime women’s refuge has a policy that it will never turn anyone away. For 25 years, Lou’s Place has been a safe haven for the...
More than a decade before the grubby antics of the Seven Network were revealed in spectacular fashion through its role in securing the infamous Bruce...
One-time NSW skills minister Tim Crakanthorp was found to have breached the public trust. His only punishment is a seat on the backbench. The...
Public schools in NSW have an image problem. As a parent of children who attend public schools, I know this all too well. I am often looked at with...
Rewind almost 30 years, and a politically naive NSW Labor leader wanted to ban teens from wearing their baseball caps backwards. Clearly, Bob Carr...
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb desperately needed a reset after a series of unforced errors that have plagued her leadership. Instead, she has...
With a dollar symbol cheekily superimposed onto a photograph of the city’s most iconic tollroad, NSW Labor launched a petition – some may say...
The Minns government will not scrap refunds for motorists who use the M5 motorway in Sydney’s south-west or its new $60-weekly toll cap, despite a...
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns waited until he was firmly ensconced in the government wing of Macquarie Street before he dared to really talk...
Before the spectacular fall from grace of Sydney’s Star casino, when its nemesis Crown Resorts was the bad egg in the world of NSW gambling, the...