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The purported Sydney office for Australian Skills Certification doubles as a luxury tailor.

Out the back of a Haymarket suit shop, you can get your tradie qualification without sitting a test

Tradies can obtain qualifications without formal testing from a vast number of private organisations.

  • Max Maddison and Harriet Alexander

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Amanda Owen at her home in Baulkham Hills last year.

The building commissioner doesn’t think Sydney has a defects crisis. Tell that to Amanda

What does NSW need to do to solve its defects crisis? It starts by acknowledging there’s a problem – then taking these seven steps.

  • Max Maddison and Anthony Segaert
Sydney MP Alex Greenwich has welcomed the NSW government’s about-face on plans to introduce a bill banning gay conversion therapy in the state.

Voters aren’t just flirting with independents. It’s deep and meaningful now

Australians have seen that power-sharing delivers outcomes in the NSW parliament, and could do the same at a federal level.

  • Alex Greenwich
NSW Greens MLC and spokesperson for Health Amanda Cohn introduced the private members bill on abortion.

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.

  • Frances Howe
John Moores and Paul Paynter were picked to run as Liberals for in the council elections until a major administrative mistake stopped them.

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. 

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW Education Department secretary Murat Dizdar at the SMH Schools Summit last month.

‘We support parent choice’: Uproar over NSW schools chief’s push to reconsider private schools

Premier Chris Minns says his government is “certainly not” going to take away options for parents after NSW’s head of public schools questioned if private schools should exist.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
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The Sydney hospitals to be hit hardest by three-day doctors’ strike

Surgeries have been cancelled and non-urgent patients told to avoid the state’s emergency departments as hospitals brace for unprecedented industrial action.

  • Angus Thomson
Manly West Public School will allow its oval to be used by the public after hours.

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.

  • Alexandra Smith
Tradies.

‘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.

  • Harriet Alexander and Max Maddison
Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson.

NSW Police told to sign NDA as part of caravan investigation

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said the AFP made an investigator sign an NDA before receiving details about tip-offs into an explosive-laden caravan.

  • Christopher Harris

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