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Digital technology has allowed abusers to adopt new strategies for intimate partner violence.

Victoria, NSW frustrated by federal funding cuts to domestic violence partnership

The national partnership provides operational funding to the states and territories for local services that save lives.

  • Rachel Eddie and Michael McGowan

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Tunnel workers are exposed to high levels of crystalline silica.

The law changes demanded as Sydney tunnel workers face death

The union is urging the government to extend the ability for tunnelling companies to be prosecuted for exposing workers to deadly levels of silica dust.

  • Max Maddison
The land near the new airport in Sydney’s far west has been in the Waterhouse family for more than 50 years.

Bet each way? Waterhouses offered controversial property for new Sydney racecourse

The famous racing family has put forward its $330 million farmland, once linked to disgraced ex-NSW MP Daryl Maguire, as a potential site for a new track.

  • Chris Barrett
NSW Premier Chris Minns is preparing for a fight over psychosocial compensation claims.

NSW workers’ comp scheme only sustainable for ‘another two years’

Premier Chris Minns has refused to rule out lifting the threshold required for workplace mental health payouts to levels some experts say would be impossible to reach.

  • Max Maddison
Dr Julian Parmegiani, architect of the Psychiatric Impairment Rating Scale that is used to rate psychological injury in people making workers compensation claims.

Experts say mental health payouts may become impossible

Changes proposed by the Minns government will effectively kill the scheme by making it next to impossible for injured workers to claim damages from employers, an expert says.

  • Michael McGowan
Unions NSW Secretary Mark Morey has levelled a series of criticisms at the Minns government over proposed changes to workers compensation laws.

‘Extreme and harsh’: NSW Labor on collision course with unions over workers’ comp changes

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has flagged plans for a radical overhaul of workers’ compensation for injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder. 

  • Michael McGowan
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Doctors demanding more pay and better conditions at Westmead Hospital during a strike earlier this month.

Revealed: What NSW voters really think of their schools and transport

Despite Premier Chris Minns making the restoration of trust in public services central to his election pitch two years ago, fewer than half of voters have positive opinions about most key services.

  • Michael McGowan
SUNHERALD- Crowds of people inundated the streets of Byron Bay after Splendour in the Grass festival cancelled its first day due to bad weather. People waited in long queues to enter venues. Photo shows local band The Seeding entertaining crowds on the streets. The buskers played for eight hours to keep the swelling crowd amused.Friday July 22nd Photo by Natalie Grono

The plan to protect NSW’s most famous coastal enclave from whining neighbours

Pubs in the tourist mecca of Byron Bay have hosted Nirvana and The White Stripes. The local council wants to shield them from unreasonable noise complaints.

  • Megan Gorrey
Murray Ellen, Founder of PTBlink which designs software used by manufacturing companies, alleges that his IP was stolen by employees of the NSW Education Department.

He blew the whistle on a $39 million school building tender. Now ICAC is investigating

Murray Ellen first raised concerns about Schools Infrastructure NSW as far back as 2022.

  • Michael McGowan
Willoughby business owner has been selling flowers for 45 years but says business has never been so bad.

This electorate is one of Sydney’s most affluent. It is not immune to cost-of-living pressures

Bradfield stayed in Liberal hands when electorates around it went teal in 2022, but can the party hold the once blue-ribbon seat at this election?

  • Alexandra Smith

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