‘I’m still an underdog’: The teal candidate taking on the Liberals in Pittwater
Independent Jacqui Scruby is hoping to win the blue-ribbon seat, which she lost by 606 votes last year, in next month’s byelection.
- by Megan Gorrey
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Liberal Party
Rob Stokes backs Northern Beaches deputy mayor to replace Rory Amon
Senior Liberal Rob Stokes is throwing his support behind Georgia Ryburn to nominate for the seat of Pittwater, vowing he would “back her every step of the way”.
- by Megan Gorrey
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Crime
NSW MP charged with child sex offences, quits parliament
Rory Amon, the former Liberal member for Pittwater, has been charged over the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Alexandra Smith, Megan Gorrey and Clare Sibthorpe
Torched signs and a wacky website: Local council skulduggery rears its head
As Sydney enters its final fortnight of local council election campaigning, some tactics have turned ugly.
- by Anthony Segaert and Megan Gorrey
‘We apologise to women’: NSW vows to provide better care during pregnancy
Health Minister Ryan Park praised the courage of thousands of women who shared their “deeply personal and difficult experiences” during the landmark inquiry.
- by Megan Gorrey
The 118-year-old NSW symbol getting a makeover for the modern era
When Britain’s King Edward VII granted the state arms in 1906, he couldn’t have foreseen the challenges that would one day be posed by the PDF file.
- by Megan Gorrey
The Sydney suburbs where first home buyers are saving on stamp duty
Thousands of NSW residents are taking advantage of the state government’s help to get a foot on the property ladder – and one area is benefiting most.
- by Megan Gorrey
The metro will transform this Sydney suburb but not everyone’s on board
Waterloo will be the suburb the metro rail line helped revamp, if the state government can pull off its plan to redevelop the surrounding public housing estate.
- by Megan Gorrey
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NSW councils
‘Shocked, gutted, in disbelief’: Liberal blame game erupts over council catastrophe
State director Richard Shields has dismissed calls for his resignation as “premature” after the party failed to register many candidates for local government elections next month.
- by Alexandra Smith, Max Maddison, Megan Gorrey and Anthony Segaert
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NSW councils
NSW Liberals in chaos as party fails to nominate council candidates
The Liberal Party will be missing from local council elections including Lane Cove, Northern Beaches, Camden and Wollongong after an administrative error.
- by Max Maddison, Alexandra Smith and Megan Gorrey
Plans to build 3000 new homes in Sydney’s inner south one step closer
The state government wants to build thousands of apartments near a new metro station. One local councillor has lashed it as an “epic fail” to deliver more public housing.
- by Megan Gorrey
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