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October

Goodbye Sydney: warehouse owners priced out of town

The resulting transport and storage charges will flow on to the cost of living in Sydney, even to the cost of building a new home.

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  • Robert Harley

August

Builders move to take on wounded CFMEU

Building companies are showing the first signs of trying to break the shackles of the union as it heads into administration.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Endeavour Energy power workers are pushing for a 24 per cent pay rise.

Threat to customer safety cited in call to end sparkie work bans

Endeavour Energy has launched legal action to stop six months of industrial action, as other power workers join to form a triple threat to major projects in NSW.

  • David Marin-Guzman, Campbell Kwan and Angela Macdonald-Smith

May

Western Sydney communities are struggling with overcrowded infrastructure.

Labor warned on overheating western Sydney road spend

Labor said on Monday that its spending in the population growth area was now more than $17.3 billion. 

  • Tom McIlroy

April

Former EY managing partner of operations Tim Eddy is Rennie Advisory’s new chairman.

Big four consultants ‘commoditised’, says fast-growing boutique firm

Rennie Advisory has appointed former senior EY partner Tim Eddy as its new chairman, as small firms capitalise on client dissatisfaction with the big four.

  • Maxim Shanahan
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March

National Anti-Corruption Commission head Paul Brereton.

Corruption body first as bribe charges laid against airport worker

The National Anti-Corruption Commission has claimed a milestone with charges laid against a former Western Sydney Airport employee.

  • Michael Pelly

December 2023

Sydney Airport flight slot manager has ‘conflict of interest’: ACCC

The company that chooses which aircraft take off and land at Sydney Airport is majority-owned by Qantas and Virgin.

  • Jenny Wiggins

November 2023

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King faces more political problems as she attempts to slice spending.

Why the states are snippy over King’s infrastructure cull

Catherine King is blaming the Coalition for making an unsustainable mess of the infrastructure pipeline, but her state Labor colleagues are unimpressed, and productivity is declining.

  • Jennifer Hewett

October 2023

The country’s biggest airport has asked the government to match the terms it is offering at Western Sydney to reduce emissions and noise.

Let us land planes more quietly, efficiently: Sydney Airport

The country’s biggest airport has asked the government to match the terms it is offering at Western Sydney to reduce emissions and noise.

  • Ayesha de Kretser
Avalon Airport CEO Tony Brun on Friday.

Western Sydney ‘not the centre of the universe’, says Avalon Airport

The airport wants a small investment in a rail fix, and the same guarantees around air traffic control and other services the government is offering the Aerotropolis.

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  • Ayesha de Kretser

July 2023

General manager Glen Erickson shows off the lobby of the new Pullman Sydney Penrith, scheduled to open in mid-August.

Penrith debuts its first luxury hotel: A $110m 5-star complex

Penrith is giving the west’s economic-powerhouse City of Parramatta a run for its development money by opening a new-build hotel and conference facilities.

  • Fiona Carruthers

June 2023

Arcadia Landscape Architecture’s short-listed design for Western Parkland City Authority (WPCA)’s planned Central Park, a 2.01-hectare public park at the heart of Bradfield City Centre.

NSW puts Indigenous design at centre of new park tender

Bradfield, the new CBD outside western Sydney’s new airport, is setting a new precedent for procurement of public spaces.

  • Michael Bleby

March 2023

Western Sydney International Airport Corp chief executive Simon Hickey in front of the future airport terminal.

Western Sydney Airport will push airfares down: CEO

Australia’s first new airport in 50 years will be at the forefront of aviation technology, which should lower costs and passengers’ stress.

  • Aaron Patrick
Leppington voter Lydia Maccarrone is waiting for the NSW government to deliver for the area.

‘Empty promises’: NSW government on the nose in key new seat

The new seat of Leppington will be crucial to the outcome of this month’s election in NSW, but it also represents the key issues over which the contest is being fought.

  • Luca Ittimani

June 2022

Campbell Hanan, Richard Seddon and Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz from Mirvac with NSW Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres at the site of the Aspect Industrial Estate in Kemps Creek, Sydney.

Mirvac’s new Aspect on Western Sydney Aerotropolis site takes off

Mirvac is making up for lost time in the booming logistics sector, rapidly expanding its industrial developments in western Sydney.

  • Martin Kelly
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May 2022

The planned Courtyard by Marriott, Western Sydney Airport. Due to complete 2026.

Marriott seals deal to run first hotel at Western Sydney Aerotropolis

Take a look at the first hotel planned for the new airport precinct, part of a bigger regional play by the developer.

  • Martin Kelly

April 2022

Western Sydney Airport, construction has started on the new runway.

Charter Hall takes off at Western Sydney Airport

One of Australia’s largest property companies is in advanced negotiations to develop a key site at Western Sydney Airport.

  • Martin Kelly

February 2022

Dr Sarah Hill, photographed at the time of her appointment as the chief executive of the Greater Sydney Commission.

Aerotropolis take-off stalled by NSW govt delays, says key stakeholder

There are fears the state government is falling behind the Aerotropolis infrastructure curve with the new airport due to open in 2026.

  • Martin Kelly

January 2022

Sydney Airport’s international arrivals terminal has been busier after vaccinated travellers were allowed in without having to quarantine.

Sydney Airport investor questions board’s ‘narrow view’

More small investors in Sydney Airport are publicly venting their opposition to the company’s proposed $23.6 billion takeover as a vote on the deal looms in early February, arguing its board is taking a short-term view.

  • Jenny Wiggins

November 2021

High-speed rail works in China but may not transfer easily to Australia.

High-speed rail dreaming is a fast track to nowhere

Giving a leg up to the numbers on wish-list projects simply sidelines better ideas that might pass the cost-benefit test.

  • Marion Terrill

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