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NSW is falling way short of its home-building targets.

The U-turn on Sydney’s housing crisis no one saw coming

The NSW Coalition suddenly promises to work with the premier to build homes. There will be a reckoning on that pledge.

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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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NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman says the Pittwater by-election was an “outlier”.

Liberal leader claims ‘overwhelming support’ after heavy Pittwater loss

The Liberals suffered a bad loss in Pittwater on Saturday, but NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says a “perfect storm” conspired against the party and his MPs are still backing him in.

  • Max Maddison
Liberal candidate Georgia Ryburn ahead of Saturday’s byelection.

When it rains it pours, and right now it feels like the NSW Liberal Party is drowning

The most interesting part of this byelection is what it means for Mark Speakman, for whom 2024 has oscillated between horror and vaudeville.

  • Michael McGowan
Liberal women Monica Tudehope and Georgia Ryburn are running in next month’s byelections.

The NSW Liberals have many problems but they are finally fixing one

The NSW Liberals have finally read the room. But their problems are not disappearing.

  • Alexandra Smith
Speakman is trying to have NSW figures installed on a committee empowered to run the NSW division.

NSW Liberal leader at war with Dutton-led takeover

Conservatives wrote to party members saying Mark Speakman had made “sad” claims and “issued a blatant challenge to the leadership of Peter Dutton”.

  • Paul Sakkal and Alexandra Smith

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