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David Elliott

January 2023

Defiant Perrottet fires back after Carr attack

Premier says he will not be lectured to by Bob Carr and takes aim at the former Labor leader for allowing the number of poker machines in NSW to soar during his term.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

December 2022

Rear Window’s 2022 in review

In 2022, an abundance of notable misbehaviours went down in the Rear Window universe.

  • Joe Aston

October 2022

NSW Transport Minister David Elliott.

David Elliott has everything under control

The NSW Transport Minister wants Sydneysiders to know they’re in safe hands.

  • Michael Roddan

September 2022

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet.

Rail workers demand ‘healthy option’ meal allowances and R U OK days

As the NSW government prepares to face the rail union in the Fair Work Commission on Tuesday, the union’s log of claims sheds light on the generous conditions under consideration.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Transport Minister David Elliott has called on rail unions to cease their industrial action.

Can David Elliott just resign already?

As NSW transport minister, Elliott has fashioned his negotiations with the rail union into a performative fiasco.

  • Joe Aston
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August 2022

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet (left) and NSW Treasurer Matt Kean, who was announced as the NSW Liberal Deputy Leader at Parliament House in Sydney on Tuesday.

Kean elected NSW deputy leader as Perrottet steadies ship

The factional firebrand was appointed to the role in a one-horse race that had the support of Premier Dominic Perrottet.

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  • Samantha Hutchinson and Georgie Moore
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Trade Minister Stuart Ayres.

Leadership race as Perrottet stems bleeding from Barilaro crisis

The abrupt departure of Stuart Ayres - the NSW government’s second minister to go in a week - has triggered a race for the deputy leader’s position.

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  • Samantha Hutchinson and Georgie Moore

June 2022

John Barilaro was appointed to the New York role earlier this month.

Barilaro quits trade post after week of pain for Perrottet

John Barilaro has handed back a plum US trade position amid a public outcry over the appointment which came after Investment NSW handed, and then rescinded, an offer of the role to a senior public servant.

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  • Samantha Hutchinson
NSW Transport Minister David Elliott says the government is “very, very conscious” of the cost of living.

Rail workers, teachers, nurses revolt in NSW walkouts

NSW transport disruptions are likely to get worse over the next two weeks as the state’s rail workers protest against overseas-built trains.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

March 2022

Scott Morrison

NSW Liberals are aghast at Morrison’s takeover

Upset at being denied the right to choose parliamentary candidates, Liberals booed Immigration Minister Alex Hawke at the weekend.

  • Aaron Patrick

February 2022

Sydney trains could face further cancellations as unions and the NSW government failed to reach a resolution on Monday.

Sydney train disruption to continue as IR dispute blows up

Disruption is likely to continue for at least the next two days as the union and the NSW government failed to reach a resolution on Monday afternoon.

  • David Marin-Guzman

September 2020

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is still willing to call the bluff of any Nationals MPs daring to cross the floor over existing laws protecting koalas.

'Heads down, work hard': Berejiklian stares down rogue Nationals

With one Nationals MP still threatening to vote against the government, the NSW Premier is telling colleagues to get on with the job they were elected to do.

  • Finbar O'Mallon

January 2020

There are times when one learns a lot more about one’s leader when they are away from their desk, not behind it.

You can tell a lot about a boss from how they act on holiday

Scott Morrison has comprehensively demonstrated how not to handle a holiday, with or without a crisis.

  • Pilita Clark

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