Yesterday
NSW budget shows $3.4b deficit, offers housing guarantee
NSW opposition doubts Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s two-year path to surplus and labels its housing policy a “drop in the ocean”.
This Month
Business warns NSW lags in red tape and planning delays
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says the budget will tackle major project delays. Business says it’s past time.
Liberal luminaries tasked to review party’s 2025 election disaster
The party has appointed “eminent Australians” Nick Minchin and Pru Goward to review its disastrous performance at the polls.
Compo claims for stress and burnout are driving businesses to the edge
Psychological injury claims are exploding, but the Coalition and unions think the Minns government is making the wrong workers pay for a lax system.
May
‘Go back to Melbourne’: NSW Liberals call to end intervention
Sussan Ley and Mark Speakman are under pressure to end federal intervention in the NSW Liberals after the party’s disastrous national poll result.
February
Office tower to apartment block: Inside the new push to fix housing
Planning reforms in Australia’s two biggest states have sparked political backlash, but will buyers and developers fill in the missing middle?
Antisemitic video leads to charges for nurse, Sydney school protest
A Sydney nurse has been charged with threatening to kill, while a related protest by schoolboys on Wednesday morning was condemned as antisemitic.
September 2024
Dutton prevails in NSW Liberal Party takeover bid
Former state MP Peta Seaton will join a three-member panel charged with cleaning up the dysfunctional division, in a win for the federal opposition leader.
August 2024
Sydney’s $21b metro as transformational as Harbour Bridge
Sydney’s new $21 billion metro line launched on Monday is expected to be used by up to 250,000 commuters each weekday.
June 2024
‘Stealth’ land tax could drive investors from NSW and push up rents
Propertybuyer founder Rich Harvey says the land tax threshold freezes are a tax grab and he is “thinking twice” about buying more properties in NSW.
March 2024
Australian politicians mob Alastair Campbell
As a way for a veritably antique ex-politico to pay the bills, this sure must beat lobbying.
September 2023
Ten locations for downsizers to consider
Australia has a housing shortage and 9 million spare bedrooms, many of them in the homes of empty-nesters. AFR Weekend found 10 desirable downsizer locations.
The moral imperative for saying Yes
Constitutional symbolism is not enough. It is the combination of moral and practical that makes the Voice the right thing to do.
August 2023
Coalition at odds with itself over the Voice
David Littleproud declined to endorse an alternative Voice proposal by Peter Dutton.
June 2023
Why Gladys Berejiklian failed ICAC’s test
The former NSW premier will never agree with the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s finding she engaged in serious corrupt conduct. But the damage is done.
May 2023
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman: ‘I’m not really a head kicker’
In his first major interview since taking on his new role, the former barrister talks about adjusting to life on the opposition benches and steadying a party used to being in power.
Nats dump leader on eve of NSW sitting week
Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the leadership change was unlikely to derail the Coalition Agreement but could affect shadow cabinet appointments.
April 2023
How Mark Latham blew himself up
The former Labor leader was primed to emerge as a powerful figure in NSW politics as a conservative populist. Then he miscalculated.
February 2023
Perrottet shuts down parliament early
The parliamentary term will now officially enter caretaker mode on Monday, March 7.
September 2022
NSW pins hopes on ‘two strikes’ policy against drugs
The state government ruled out accepting a recommendation to decriminalise the drug ice.