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Minns sacks minister from cabinet for ‘conflict of interest over family holdings’
NSW Premier Chris Minns has sacked Skills, TAFE and Tertiary Education Minister Tim Crakanthorp for failing to disclose “substantial private family holdings in the Hunter region”.
- by Max Maddison, Michael McGowan and Carrie Fellner
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Minns government on cusp of rewriting Sydney housing density reforms
The NSW premier’s plans to let developers build higher and denser, in return for affordable and social housing, have been branded “impractical and unfeasible”.
- by Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
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Opposition targets timing of minister’s meeting with ‘Labor mate’
Transport Minister Jo Haylen met with a former Labor staffer whom she later hired as the state’s top transport official just days after the ALP won the election, raising questions about the hiring process for the job.
- by Michael McGowan
Minns warns path to net zero ‘very narrow’ as govt revisits Eraring closure date
The premier has dismissed the former government’s emission reduction targets as “some media release” and concedes Labor’s own targets would be “tricky” to meet.
- by Michael McGowan
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NSW Health missed ‘warning signs’ before Sydney nurse deaths, court documents allege
The documents show SafeWork believed the local health district failed in its duty of care to the two women, who died while working at Cumberland Psychiatric Hospital.
- by Michael McGowan
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Metro decision risks state’s reputation, business leaders warn
Business leaders warn NSW government’s Metro West cancellation risks the state’s reputation as “reliable economy”.
- by Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
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‘We need the Metro’: Labor’s star recruit insists $25 billion rail line must go ahead
Donna Davis, the former Parramatta Lord Mayor whose win in the state seat helped Labor grab power after 12 years in opposition, insists Metro West must go ahead.
- by Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
Liberal MPs were baffled by Taylor Martin’s exile. Now some say they know why
NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman has refused to say when he became aware of complaints against Martin, including whether he knew when he left the MP out of his shadow ministry.
- by Michael McGowan, James Massola and Jordan Baker
Iemma to remain lobbyist despite being named new stadiums boss
Former NSW premier Morris Iemma has promised to keep separate his political lobbying for the property industry from a new job as chair of Venues NSW.
- by Michael McGowan
‘Distressed’ former MP named as Liberal figure who made abuse complaint
The former federal MP alleges she received “demeaning, degrading, and abusive” texts from NSW Liberal MP Taylor Martin over a five-year period.
- by Michael McGowan
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Hospitals in crisis
Two nurses planned to get married. By the end of the year they were both dead
Vicki Rowe has revealed conversations with her niece, an enrolled nurse at Cumberland Hospital who took her own life just months after becoming engaged.
- by Michael McGowan