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Sydney needs denser housing and more of it. Can our politicians smoke the peace pipe and deliver it?

How a 45-year-old act is holding Sydney hostage on housing reform

This unruly 327-page document is holding Sydney back on housing. Could there finally be a fix?

  • Alexandra Smith and Michael McGowan

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Teal wave independents left to right: Lane Cove candidate Victoria Davidson, Joeline Hackman who challenged the seat of Manly and Helen Conway, who ran for the North Shore seat.

Do the teals need Scott Morrison in order to succeed?

Structural problems hastened the NSW Liberal Party’s loss. But the teals in NSW were unable to exploit it.

  • Jacqueline Maley
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet earlier this week.

NSW Ambulance chief organised ambulance for Perrottet’s wife after call from premier

Dominic Perrottet denied receiving any preferential treatment when his wife suffered an injury, but confirmed he called Brad Hazzard to seek advice, who happened to be meeting with the NSW Ambulance commissioner.

  • Tom Rabe and Kate Aubusson
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet with wife Helen Perrottet and daughter Celeste at the community event Groovin on the Green at Cherry Street Sports Club in Ballina to mark a year since the floods on March 4, 2023. Photo: Elise Derwin / SMH. .

‘Didn’t ask for any favours’: Perrottet denies special ambulance request for wife

Premier Dominic Perrottet has denied he called Health Minister Brad Hazzard to receive a faster ambulance response for his sick wife.

  • Duncan Murray
A “no smoking or vaping” sign in Hudson, New York.

Why vapers don’t know they are also banned from non-smoking areas

As the popularity of e-cigarettes increases among younger people, councils and universities may need to update their “no smoking” signs to include vaping. 

  • Mary Ward
Health Minister Brad Hazzard is leaving politics after 32 years.

‘We had no idea what was coming’: Brad Hazzard on his worst years in politics

The man who became a familiar face during some of NSW’s darkest hours is bowing out after three decades as an MP.

  • Alexandra Smith
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NSW is the only state with a separate regional health minister, held by Bronnie Taylor since late 2021.

Regional health specialty under election cloud as opinions split on role

NSW Labor is unsure it would keep the separate role if elected, while incumbent minister Bronnie Taylor is rumoured to want to take on the health portfolio too.

  • Mary Ward
Brian Whelan, 80, is one of 3000 rural and regional patients treated by the NSW Government’s Telestroke Service.

The stroke treatment service helping rural patients faster than major city hospitals

Brian Whelan would have required full-time care without a life-changing service for stroke victims. Now, he’s recovered and playing golf twice a week.

  • Kate Aubusson
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is unlikely to reshuffle his front bench before the March 25 election.

Why Perrottet won’t risk an election-eve reshuffle

The NSW premier is relying on his trusted frontbench lieutenants to sell the Coalition’s message, even if many of them will not be there after the vote.

  • Alexandra Smith
Brad Hazzard, pictured, provided a text message exchange with Adam Marshall from June 26 last year.

No case to answer for Hazzard over alleged COVID handshake

The hearings centred on whether Health Minister Brad Hazzard received special treatment in avoiding 14 days of isolation during last year’s Delta wave.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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