North Sydney
Sydney councils are being asked to pay for more with less. Waverley is going to find out how much
As the federal and state government continue to shift costs onto local government, councillors are starting to draw a line in the sand.
- Nick Newling
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Plan to scrap hidden fees for Sydney’s ticketless parking systems
Drivers have vented their frustration at being slugged with fees of up to 10 per cent to use ticketless parking meters in some Sydney council areas.
- Megan Gorrey
‘Sack them all’: North Sydney councillors vote for 87 per cent rate rise at rowdy meeting
A hostile crowd of protesters shouted “shame” and “liar” as councillors debated the proposed rates rise at a meeting on Monday night.
- Megan Gorrey
Pollies scrap over Olympic pool’s $122m hole in the ground
North Sydney councillors are set to debate a rate hike of 87 per cent.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Metro brought North Sydney to life. One decision could ‘devastate’ it
Developers are fighting North Sydney Council’s proposal to lift rates by nearly 90 per cent over two years, arguing the financial strain could force businesses to abandon its CBD.
- Megan Gorrey
North Sydney councillors to consider 87 per cent rates rise
The council has mostly blamed the surging cost of its $122 million Olympic pool revamp for its “weak” finances. It wants ratepayers to help foot the bill.
- Megan Gorrey
As public school enrolments fall, boys’ schools are bucking the trend
Hirsh Modi is one of hundreds of additional boys headed for single-sex schooling this year.
- Christopher Harris
Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’
Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.
- Cindy Yin
Inside the island study camp where North Sydney Boys plotted their HSC success
On a warm November day last year, students took a train an hour north to the Hawkesbury River and boarded a creaky ferry to Milson Island. There, they built their ‘secret little academic weapon’.
- Christopher Harris and Anthony Segaert
Why a north shore council wants this 22-storey apartment block plan cut down
The $141 million proposal to build 188 units would be 350 metres from the Crows Nest metro station.
- Megan Gorrey
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