If Chris Minns is successful, in a decade’s time living in parts of Sydney may not be that different to life in Brooklyn’s Park Slope or Williamsburg. Without the shootings.

NSW’s premier is on a mission to change what he calls “the alchemy” of Sydney suburbs. Facilitating a wave of apartment construction across the city is his government’s most important policy, he tells The Australian Financial Review. The government, it says, is siding with property developers over NIMBYs and their council allies.