Jo Haylen, forced to admit she used her private ministerial driver for a trip with her husband to a Hunter Valley winery, resigned as Transport Minister on Tuesday during crisis talks with Premier Chris Minns.
Criminal lawyers have been warned about preparing bail applications involving ankle monitoring bracelets being tracked by a private firm as the NSW government moves to shift blame for the alleged bail fail crisis.
Transport Minister Jo Haylen has resigned over the use of taxpayer-funded ministerial drivers to chauffeur her to multiple private events including winery trips, private country lunches and weekend kids’ sports.
Police have released images of a prison escapee strolling around a busy shopping area, as a manhunt ramps up almost a week after he fled a South Coast jail.
It was always going to end like this. On day one of the chauffeur car scandal, Chris Minns could have asked Jo Haylen to stand aside. Or she could have offered. Instead, they left the government deeply wounded, writes Linda Silmalis.
The state government has raked in more than $20m in school zone speeding fines in just six months – with some drivers copping fines more than $3000. See the list of worst locations.
As Jo Haylen finally bowed to the inevitable and quit as Transport minister, she refused to take questions from the media. Here is what she did have to say.
A developer’s vision to build six apartment blocks with affordable and private dwellings in Sydney’s west has stirred up objections from locals and a council fearing it would create “undesirable” and “segregated” areas.
Dubbo police are appealing for help from the public after a woman was stabbed while she was holding an infant during a terrifying motel robbery. Here’s what we know.
A man is on trial after he allegedly messaged a teenager on Snapchat before he lured her to his brother’s flat under false pretenses and sexually assaulted her. He claims “she didn’t say no once”.
An Irish national allegedly spent four days driving former fugitive Hussein Chamas more than 4600km from Sydney to Arnhem Land in a bid to help smuggle the alleged drug importer out of Australia.
Libby Trickett knows all about the parental balancing act – the swimming superstar is about to have her fifth child. Here’s her advice as we launch the Great Parent Survey.
The fallout from closing Glebe Island port will be a city where roads are even more choked by trucks making long-haul trips, the NSW Government has been warned.
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