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NSW
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Development
Premier questioned over City of Sydney development exemption
There are calls for Chris Minns to explain why a council won’t be included in the scheme to drive high-density housing across Sydney.
- by Max Maddison
Latest
Dear diary: What the government’s first meetings reveal about power in NSW
In the government’s first few weeks, newly minted ministers met with newspapers, TV, Ray Hadley and billionaire nonagenarians.
- by Angus Dalton and Simone Fox Koob
Opinion
Sydney Metro
Trains are the future for global cities. Let’s not go off the rails, Sydney
A commitment to modern rail networks is critical to building safer, low-carbon cities.
- by Caroline Wilkie
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State Parliament
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
Analysis
State Parliament
Minns acted swiftly, but premier’s first ministerial casualty has come all too quickly
Just four months in and Labor has suffered its first ministerial sacking over the smelly combination of property interests and improper disclosure.
- by Michael Koziol
Hospital given ultimatum over delay in creating children’s crisis beds
The Northern Beaches Hospital has eight weeks to explain why children in crisis have nowhere to go more than a year after it was given $7.5 million.
- by Laura Banks
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State Parliament
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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State Parliament
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
Editorial
Property development
Behaviour of major building industry players under scrutiny
Taxpayers don’t want to be left carrying the can if builders and developers aren’t regulated properly.
- The Herald's View
Opinion
Drug reform
Legalising cocaine would give ganglords what they fear most: Centrelink
Our communities are vulnerable and our streets are unsafe because the war on drugs policy empowers drug gangs rather than stopping them.
- by Cate Faehrmann
Exclusive
State Parliament
Liberal documents reveal election fears as donations dry up
Internal NSW Liberal Party documents warn that lacklustre fundraising and “dysfunction” within the party could hamper its chances at the next federal election.
- by Max Maddison