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James O'DohertyState Political Reporter

James O’Doherty is The Daily Telegraph’s State Political Editor. He joined The Telegraph in 2020 from Sky News, where he worked as a national political reporter in Canberra and a foreign correspondent in New Zealand. James has covered stories of state, national, and international significance across television and print.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - NOVEMBER 13 2024; NSW Premier Chris Minns speaks during Question Time in the Legislative Assembly at New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Secret taskforce to fix Sydney’s housing mess

Representatives from 13 government agencies have been forced into the one room in a bid to get housing moving.

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Confusing one-pager sums up Sydney’s biggest problem

It’s the one-page document that exposes the snakes and ladders approval process tying the NSW DA process in knots. And the Premier, who asked for the step-by-step guide, has had enough.

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Police confirmed a 24-year-old man who goes by monniker Jarrah Em Kay was charged over the incident – one of seven arrests made by Newcastle City Police over the week., , This picture posted Tuesday 9.11.21. Jarrah has now been blocking the rail line for over 2 hours. , “Sustained action that disrupts economic activity is the only effective means of creating the political change needed to salvage a liveable future.” Jarrah said. , Organised nonviolent blockading tactics are necessary to cause disruption to Australia’s extractive operations and create the change required. Anti-coal protestors are causing thousands of dollars worth of delays and have "put lives at risk" after climbing on top of trains and even parking across rail tracks in the Hunter over the last week. Images: Blockade Australia Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/BlockadeAustralia ,

Activists to face $22,000 fines for blocking trains

Tough new laws would allow the NSW government to fine climate activists who block rail lines tens of thousands of dollars.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 7, 2024. Developer Eddie Doueihi, who is set to leave the industry after 35 years because of the time it takes to get developments off the ground. He has a development in Leichhardt that has been stuck in the system for 10 years with another 9 projects all stuck in the system. Pictured at a delayed project on William St, Leichhardt. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sydney’s shame file: Thousands of development applications in limbo

The slowest councils for assessing DAs have been revealed. See where your council rates.

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pictured is Karen Webb and NSW Police officers

Cops to get up to $47k extra under massive pay deal

NSW Police officers will get a huge pay rise under a historic deal, with some officers set to earn an extra $47,000 a year.

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Ku-ring-gai council has spent thousands of dollars of ratepayers' money unsuccessfully fighting the Minns government's housing reforms, including with ads on bus shelters. Picture: Supplied.

Questionable ‘heritage’ items blocking higher density housing

A group of YIMBYs in Ku-ring-gai is fighting for a more “nuanced” approach to heritage listings.

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Labor Premier Chris Minns, left, must eventually stop claiming that all of his government’s problems were caused by the previous Coalition government led by Dominic Perrottet. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Premier is pushing his luck with the blame game

All new governments get a leave pass to blame the previous mob, for a time. But the blame game can only last so long before voters expect solutions rather than excuses, writes James O’Doherty.

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Sydney’s striking sparkies forced back to work

A major energy company said the declaration quashing the industrial action — which has delayed a number of projects in Western Sydney — “will bring relief” to customers.

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Images Supplied by NSW Police .Fifty people, including a man wanted on multiple fraud and theft offences, were arrested during a one night operation targeting the rail corridor and public transport network.Operation Colossus is a Police Transport Command (PTC) intelligence driven operation targeting hot spots along the rail corridor. The operation focuses on offences such as alcohol/drug related crime, anti-social behaviour and graffiti/malicious damage offences.

‘Critical’ shortage of police in Sydney crime hot spots

One of NSW’s most senior cops has warned that police commands in South West Sydney are so short-staffed it is impacting their ability to prevent and disrupt crime.

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The unthinkable changes Sydney has seen in 10 years

Major projects we take for granted today would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. But state leaders say innovation must continue to make the next decade as transformative as the last.

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