Hornsby
Board members secretly updated travel policy for free holiday to Vegas
The members of an upper north shore club unwittingly shouted the partners of their board directors a free overseas holiday – and then paid fringe benefits tax for the pleasure.
- by Harriet Alexander
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The north shore council, the unbuilt park and the ‘secret’ $19 million grant
Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig has ordered an urgent investigation after being given “inaccurate” information about how much money went towards a controversial redevelopment in Hornsby.
- by Michael McGowan
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Education
‘It would be crazy’: Parents fight co-ed proposal for Sydney’s top-ranked schools
The state government has floated a proposal to make several public high schools across the northern beaches, Hornsby and Kogarah co-educational.
- by Lucy Carroll
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Hospitals
The Sydney hospitals overspending by $9 million a month
Staff at three Sydney hospitals have threatened to take industrial action unless the NSW government reverses job cuts they say will put patients at risk.
- by Angus Thomson
Analysis
NSW byelection
The NSW Liberals have many problems but they are finally fixing one
The NSW Liberals have finally read the room. But their problems are not disappearing.
- by Alexandra Smith
Hornsby Shire Council: What your candidates said
Voters will elect their mayor as well as nine councillors across three wards.
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Sydney councils
‘Inappropriate commercial interests’: Deputy mayor to leave Liberals over development concerns
After a nightmare week when the party failed to nominate 132 candidates, Hornsby’s deputy mayor has called it quits to run as an independent.
- by Max Maddison
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Sydney councils
Philip Ruddock ousted as Hornsby mayor, points finger at ‘property developer interests’
The senior Liberal’s defeat in a preselection will almost certainly bring to a close his 50-year career in politics. He accused senior party members of orchestrating his demise.
- by Max Maddison
North shore council ordered to pay woman $283,000 over slip on mulch slope
Kathie Beatrice Salman successfully sued a Sydney council after she rolled her ankle while moving from a bark surface to spongy rubber in a children’s playground.
- by Michael Koziol
‘It has everything you need’: What it costs to live in the Sydney suburbs with the highest wellbeing
A suburb’s wellbeing was measured on several indicators such as health, environment, jobs and income – but it comes at a price.
- by Elizabeth Redman and Tawar Razaghi
The nature escape just 45 minutes from the city
My family joined other refugees from the inner suburbs in search of a bigger house and an affordable mortgage. What we found was a home among the trees.
- by Adam Bennett
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