Public schools across NSW have been put on notice to drastically boost students’ academic performance and attendance rates, with the Minns government today unveiling 16 ambitious new targets to arrest rapidly declining marks.
Scrapping stamp duty and replacing it with land tax is one of a raft of proposed solution to our housing crisis, to be debated at a conference this weekend. Tell us what you think.
Nationals leader Dugald Saunders took a taxpayer-funded NSW Rural Fire Service plane to fly from his electorate in Dubbo to the Hunter Valley in order to attend a series of wineries for meetings.
Fed-up commuters will be spared more chaos on Sydney’s rail network – for now – after the Minns government won a major legal victory stop to ongoing industrial action. See how much the dispute has cost NSW this year.
The state’s workplace safety regulator SafeWork NSW, will undergo a restructure and be given ‘more teeth’ one year after a scathing report into the watchdog’s practices.
Premier Chris Minns says it would be “unrealistic” to sack union rail workers amid an ongoing industrial dispute, but has not ruled out calling in the prime minister to intervene.
Most Sydney councils are paying tens of millions more on staffing costs than the equivalent council areas were prior to 2016’s amalgamations.
The controversial proposal by City of Sydney councillors has been scrapped prior to a meeting, with the Lord Mayor’s team gutting the Greens-led motion.
Eleven massive housing projects to create 6800 new homes have been green-lit after just two hours of the first meeting of the Minns government’s new housing delivery body.
A 104,000 sqm concrete slab “wasteland” that has been left vacant at Central Barangaroo for more two decades, will finally be built into a world-class commercial hub, with construction set to start by the end of the year.
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