May
Sydney’s east, north shore to get many more houses under Minns’ plan
Councils in areas such as Ku-ring-gai, Woollahra and the north shore will have to build thousands more new homes under a major shake-up by the NSW government.
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- Campbell Kwan
- Opinion
- Energy
Why NSW still needs coal-fired power
The total disarray of energy transition plans is compounded by the failure of NSW and Victoria to allow any further development of gas fields.
- Jennifer Hewett
Fears Eraring subsidies will need to be extended
Keeping the country’s biggest coal-fired power station open until 2027 has raised questions about whether it will be needed to keep the lights on into the 2030s.
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- Ben Potter and Elouise Fowler
Labor premiers leave Miles on his own with Dutton on immigration
Former treasurer Wayne Swan has accused Peter Dutton of “dog whistling on migration”.
- Tom McIlroy, Gus McCubbing and Tom Rabe
Transurban says drivers could pay more under NSW reforms
NSW’s proposed toll road reforms would hit some drivers with higher fares, create traffic congestion and would not necessarily be fairer, Transurban has claimed.
- Jenny Wiggins
Sydney couple down $700,000 trying to demolish old house
Ali and Amanda Hassan are fighting a long and costly battle with their council to convert a run-down dental surgery into a modern duplex.
- Aaron Patrick
April
Bail rules and offender tracking to lead national cabinet talks
High-risk violent offenders face closer tracking in the community, part of a push by state premiers for tough and immediate new responses to domestic violence.
- Tom McIlroy
Kean questions need for Eraring bailout
It will be the “NSW government”, not the renewables sector, that faces the music if sluggish wind, solar and transmission rollout leads to blackouts.
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- Jacob Greber
The NIMBY council singled out by Minns for rejecting density
The NSW government has released its reforms for increasing housing near transport, and will immediately enforce it on the one council that has opposed density.
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- Campbell Kwan
‘In his blood’ for security guard to protect people
The family of Faraz Tahir, the security guard killed at Westfield Bondi Junction two weeks ago, reunited in their grief at his funeral in western Sydney on Friday.
- Belad Al-karkhey
- Opinion
- NSW budget
An unwise treasurer is losing NSW’s prized AAA rating
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey cannot blame GST payments. It’s his own rash spending and pay deals that are at fault.
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- Matt Kean
NSW set to lose its AAA credit ratings: Mookhey
The NSW Treasurer has blamed a $12 billion budget hit on the GST carve-up, as he conceded the state would be stripped of its top-tier ratings.
- Tom McIlroy
Twenty minutes of terror inside Westfield Bondi Junction
Witnesses have recounted the terrifying period when Joel Cauchi murdered six people in a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
- Gus McCubbing, Les Hewitt and Campbell Kwan
Inside Chris Minns’ week of terror in Sydney
The NSW premier was on the first day of a planned family break when an attack unfolded at Bondi. His week was about to get much worse.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Terrorism definition in spotlight after Sydney attacks
Muslim community leaders are calling for a rethink of how law enforcement defines terrorism after the Sydney church stabbing.
- Max Mason
National security committee to meet after stabbings: PM
Anthony Albanese says violence and extremism has no place in Australia; Richard Marles reveals defence spending will crack $100 billion by 2034. How the day unfolded.
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- Gus McCubbing
Attacks shake Sydney to the core
The NSW capital is reeling in the aftermath of the Bondi Junction massacre and a terror stabbing of a church minister in front of his congregation.
- Andrew Clark
Business braces for more disruption from Gaza protests
Arrests have been made as train stations, ports and parts of Australia’s biggest cities are blockaded by widespread protests against the war in Gaza.
- Patrick Durkin
Police to probe if Bondi killer targeted women
Police are investigating if Joel Cauchi was targeting women when he murdered six people during a nightmarish stabbing spree in Sydney.
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- Gus McCubbing
How strangers frantically tried to save each other in Bondi
Onlookers recount the nightmarish scenes at a Sydney shopping centre as a man killed six people including Ashlee Good, Jade Young, Dawn Singleton and Faraz Tahir.
- Gus McCubbing and David Marin-Guzman