Politics
NSW
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Development
Claims Meriton’s $100m Sydney mega development has $123m worth of defects
Meriton is facing its largest ever claim for defects in a case it blasted as “preposterous”.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Analysis
Shoddy Sydney
Why the government wants you to think there’s no home defects crisis
This North Sydney apartment building has the same faults as it had when the building minister called it out in 2023.
- by Max Maddison and Anthony Segaert
Opinion
Australia votes
Dutton bitten by Britton and the NSW Libs’ calamities
The current problems in the NSW Liberals are more than a distraction for Peter Dutton. They could disrupt the federal campaign.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Crime
Sydney cop fronts up for police rugby league team days after domestic violence hearing
Brendan Oxford has been charged with multiple offences including domestic violence assault, stalking and accessing restricted data.
- by Amber Schultz
Abortion was made legal six years ago. So why has a new fight erupted?
Laws around access to abortion are back up for debate in NSW – here’s why, and where MPs stand on the new bill.
- by Frances Howe
NSW Liberals launch class action over botched council nominations
Two Liberal party members who missed out on contesting last year’s council elections are behind a class action suing the party.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Property development
First a golf course, now schools. How NSW is reclaiming green space for apartment living
The NSW Labor government is on a crusade to find more green space as it forges ahead with a higher-density living agenda.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Shoddy Sydney
‘This is out of control’: The 750 tradies who bought fake qualifications from criminals
Building defects cost Sydney home owners and taxpayers $700 million a year. Some of the problem begins with who is engaged to do the work.
- by Harriet Alexander and Max Maddison
The Sydney councils failing to meet home approval targets
Despite the NSW government’s plans to solve the housing crisis with higher-density dwellings, fewer than one in four Sydney councils are meeting development approval targets.
- by Frances Howe
Opinion
Mark Latham
Mark Latham is like red wine: a stain that seems impossible to remove
At 64, surely it is time for him to do the right thing and resign and put the people of NSW out of our collective pain.
- by The Herald's View
Editorial
Drug reform
Implementing NSW drug summit recommendations should not be delayed
The 2024 NSW drug summit has called for a shake-up of criminal justice and policing, and an end to the use of strip searches and sniffer detection dogs at music festivals.
- The Herald's View
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