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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...
Like everyone, my family of five became pretty accustomed to our home during those never-ending days of COVID lockdown. We home-schooled two kids...
If a politician is going to make brash claims, it’s best they get their facts straight, especially when taking aim at the home of a cricket legend...
Show me a workplace in 2024 where men can invent sexual fetishes about a female colleague and joke about it. Let’s hope you can’t. Sadly, I can....
Stand by for photos of Chris Minns on Friday’s public holiday. Might we assume he’ll be wearing sartorially questionable green and gold thongs, a...
In the aftermath of the Coalition’s drubbing in May 2022, the focus in Scott Morrison’s southern Sydney electorate turned to replacing the man who...
In the end, paramedics rescued Chris Minns from a real-time emergency but the NSW government will still end the year bruised and battered. After the...
Safe and small won him power, but Premier Chris Minns needs to go big and bold if he has any hope of solving the biggest issue facing NSW. From the...
The former premier Dominic Perrottet liked to say that bad opposition delivers bad government. That, of course, was when the shoe was on the other...
When federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King stunned the NSW Labor government last week with the revelation that the Commonwealth was walking...
The Minns government might just finish the year on a high, but it’s line ball. It might just as well finish with a humiliating exposure of its...
For the weeks leading up to the budget estimates period in Macquarie Street, anxious staff spent hours putting their equally anxious ministers through...
Transport Minister Jo Haylen walked into her first budget estimates hearing with rehearsed answers and she did not stray from them. The more she...
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns told the Liberal-heavy Sydney Institute annual dinner on Tuesday that he knows all too well that his time as premier is...
There were unseemly scenes at my Randwick bus stop on Wednesday. As a jam-packed 377X sailed by, and the next service was cancelled, tensions ran hot...
When NSW Labor leader Chris Minns promised in January that a government led by him would embark on a year-long consultation with First Nations people...
For a building that is the most iconic structure in this city, or indeed Australia, the Sydney Opera House has caused its share of political headaches...
And then there was one ... of the COVID premiers that is. Just as the nation seems to be moving on post-pandemic, so do the state politicians tasked...
NSW Labor boasted its first budget had two goals: to repair the state’s finances and deliver on its election promises. All going well, a small...
NSW Labor was elected with a mandate to be safe, and its first budget reflects exactly that. Its first budget since 2010 is on brand for the Minns...