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Former NSW Liberal Party state director Richard Shields and part of the secret documents.

Revealed: The secret timetable that could have stopped the NSW Liberals’ council fiasco

Secret documents reveal internal party squabbling slowed down a Liberal Party push to be organised ahead of the local government elections.

  • Max Maddison

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Anthony Roberts (left), Alister Henskens and Mark Speakman.

Henskens survives NSW Liberals’ crisis talks after text message revelations

The decision to keep the shadow attorney-general on the frontbench came with the party engulfed in crisis over the failure to nominate 140 candidates in the September 14 council elections.

  • Max Maddison
Last-ditch effort: Liberal Party president Don Harwin has sought a seven-day extension from the NSW Electoral Commission.

Electoral Commission refuses Liberal request for extension to nominate candidates

The party is considering its position overnight and will respond on Sunday, possibly by taking the Electoral Commission to court.

  • Michael Koziol
Richard Shields has been sacked as NSW Liberal Party state director.

Class action on cards after NSW Liberal Party council poll catastrophe

The NSW Liberals sacked state director Richard Shields after a catastrophic blunder left the party without 140 candidates in 16 councils for next month’s local government elections.

  • Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith
The Australian Museum hosted Jurassic World by Brickman after receiving funding from the NSW government’s blockbuster initiative, which faces cuts in the state budget.

‘Tough calls’: NSW arts, cultural groups lose $190m in budget cuts

The NSW government is warning that tough calls that are likely to be hugely unpopular have been made in its looming budget.

  • Alexandra Smith
The MLC Centre in North Sydney won the NSW Architects Enduring Architecture Prize in 2021

Prize-winning high-rise faces wrecking ball after ‘administrative error’

Architects and heritage groups are calling on the NSW government to reinstate the heritage listing of the MLC Building, one of the city’s first high-rise office buildings.

  • Julie Power
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Former Liberal minister Don Harwin at the National Art School Art/Bar Kitchen.

Only a fool would write off the PM, says retired MP Don Harwin

“My life has been really changing quite dramatically since December when I ceased being a minister,” says former Liberal MP Don Harwin.

Don Harwin, pictured at an earlier hearing, detailed the rise in applications.

Heartfelt curtain calls for ‘most successful arts minister’

Don Harwin was much admired by the arts community in NSW. His departure as state arts minister leaves big shoes to fill.

  • Annie Whealy
Corporate services of Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Opera House, Australian Museum and Powerhousze Museum are under review.

Review launched into galleries and museums’ services

Deloitte has been engaged to lead a review of “corporate and common services” across agencies inside the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

  • Linda Morris
Melinda Pavey

Melinda Pavey dropped from cabinet ahead of long-anticipated reshuffle

Long-serving Nationals MP Melinda Pavey has been dumped as a New South Wales minister and two Liberal ministers resigned ahead of a widely tipped reshuffle by Premier Dominic Perrottet.

  • Megan Gorrey, Amelia McGuire and Linda Morris

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