This Month
- Exclusive
- AI
Teachers to get AI training under NSW proposals
Specific training about the use of artificial intelligence and greater protections for copyrighted works are among recommendations from a state inquiry.
- Paul Smith
Dominic Perrottet to join BHP in senior Washington role
The former NSW premier will join the Big Australian in Washington, heading up the miner’s external affairs in the United States.
- Tom Rabe
ACCC urged to investigate CFMEU-John Holland ‘damning document’
Competition experts are shocked at a secret side deal between John Holland and the CFMEU to only use three-CFMEU-backed labour hire companies on a major state project.
- Updated
- David Marin-Guzman and Gus McCubbing
- Analysis
- Roads
Sydney’s toll road overhaul is set to target the rich
Drivers who live in some of the city’s priciest suburbs may pay extra, but the benefits of reducing fares on many of its other motorways will be worth it.
- Jenny Wiggins
NSW premier backs independent administration of CFMEU
Chris Minns will suspend the union and ban any donations from it after a hidden police camera captured a union leader being passed $5000 in a suspected kickback deal.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
Transurban contracts have ‘concerning’ lack of transparency: inquiry
The findings of a NSW parliamentary probe called after the opening of the Rozelle Interchange comes ahead of a government review into Sydney’s toll road system.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Steve McCann takes his biggest punt with embattled casino giant Star
As far as turnarounds go, this is bigger than Boral, Bapcor and Seven West Media combined. “I had room for one more,” he says when asked why he took the job.
- Anthony Macdonald
June
Consultants costing NSW twice as much as public servants: report
The government report also found the big four consulting firms were “increasingly doing generalist work” for the NSW public sector.
- Edmund Tadros
New unit to replace outside consultants in NSW
NSW will follow the federal government in setting up an in-house consulting unit to reduce spending on the major firms.
- Maxim Shanahan
May
Biggest density rises in Minns’ housing plan are in Liberal seats
The seven councils with the largest increases to their housing targets, in percentage terms, are predominantly located in Liberal-held electorates.
- Campbell Kwan
April
NSW wants fintechs to be part of the country’s largest bank contract
Westpac, ANZ and Citi are incumbents, but NSW Treasury wants innovative pitches to help solve issues, such as helping get payments to victims of domestic violence who may not have access to banks.
- Max Mason
NSW government must ‘consult’ before changing WestConnex
Transurban has confirmed that the state cannot alter the structure of WestConnex without permission from the toll road group, a hearing revealed.
- Jenny Wiggins
Chalmers stares down NSW funding threat in GST row
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says an inequitable GST allocation will likely cost the state its remaining two AAA credit ratings.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Inside Chris Minns’ week of terror in Sydney
The NSW premier was on the first day of a planned family break when an attack unfolded at Bondi. His week was about to get much worse.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Bondi attack shows lone-wolf threat changing: experts
Police forces need to beef up co-operation between units focused on domestic violence, hate crimes and fixated persons, criminologists say.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Heritage lovers or NIMBYs? Meet the council saying no to new homes
Sydney councils in wealthy areas are using heritage protection orders to skirt new home targets. The planning minister is now putting them on notice.
- Campbell Kwan and Samantha Hutchinson
‘How did they get it so wrong?’: Rozelle interchange still a debacle
A proposal to slow down tolled traffic heading into the Sydney CBD was “taken off the table” in January, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has been told.
- Jenny Wiggins
Floods prompt calls to revive dam wall plan
Residents in the Hawkesbury region experiencing their fifth major flood in two years are urging the government to reconsider a plan to raise Warragamba Dam.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Transurban says it was not involved in Rozelle Interchange design
The tollroad operator has told a NSW inquiry into the congestion that the original design was published well before it acquired WestConnex.
- Jenny Wiggins
March
Unions go after Aware Super, Lendlease over New York building project
Unions in NSW are waging war on the super fund over hiring practices and its investment in a $1 billion Brooklyn development controlled by Lendlease.
- Samantha Hutchinson