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Water industry experts say boil water notices could become common if a price decision means Sydney Water cannot invest in infrastructure upgrades. NSW Premier Chris Minns wrote to IPART in August urging it to make “cost-of-living impacts” a first-order consideration in raising water bills.

Pay more for your water or boil it? The unpalatable choice behind Sydney’s water woes

Sydneysiders narrowly avoided having to boil their drinking water in 2021. After a draft bill increase was slashed, some are warning it could become common.

  • Penry Buckley and Max Maddison

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The Joinery, Annandale, will include 577 homes with 220 affordable rentals for essential workers.

How a prime piece of inner west Sydney land will be transformed

A development planned for a former WestConnex dive site will now include more homes, and pedestrian links between Parramatta and Pyrmont Bridge roads.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas has been warned she will likely never regain full vision in her right eye after an injury she suffered when police broke up an anti-Israel protest last month.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

  • Michael McGowan
President Donald Trump signs his signature bill into law.

Trump and his multitrillion-dollar Sharpie sign off on cuts ‘no one will notice’

The US president figures no one will notice the loss of healthcare and school lunches among the poor. Could he be right?

  • Tony Wright
Former Australian Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith is seen in the crowd during the Richmond Tigers and Adelaide Crows at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Ben Roberts-Smith heads for Tigerland – but the day doesn’t go his way

The disgraced former soldier’s appearance at the MCG set off a scramble to see who might have invited him.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Justin Hemmes outside one of his Sydney venues in 2022.

Minns won’t avoid embattled Merivale venues

Despite a series of damaging investigations published in this masthead, Justin Hemmes’ establishments continue to enjoy high-profile patronage.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Premier Chris Minns, can he keep NSW on the straight and narrow?

‘Demonstrate leadership’: Labor under pressure to respond to drug summit

The Minns government is being urged to move faster on overhauling drug policy by charity groups and its own MPs.

  • Michael McGowan
Anthony Albanese with Peter V’landys at Leichhardt Oval in June last year.

Politics and rugby league have been thrown into a blender

Sport and politics aren’t strange bedfellows when it comes to the NRL.

  • Neil Breen
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All cisterns go!

The voice of a generation was one out of the box.

James Cullen was one of five senior political staffers who appeared at an inquiry into the Dural caravan incident.

‘Law-abiding citizen’: After threats of arrest, Labor staffers face hours in the spotlight

The five NSW Labor advisers who faced detention for ignoring the demands of a parliamentary committee told an inquiry they are not lawbreakers.

  • Alexandra Smith

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