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Greenfield development in Sydney’s Marsden Park.

The tax changes in NSW budget designed to boost housing

With housing approvals lagging in NSW, the state government will extend tax concessions for the state’s build-to-rent sector.

  • Max Maddison

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NSW gets a new budget next week. Here’s what we already know.

What we already know about this year’s NSW budget

From the “need to build, build, build” to pledges for transport, hospitals and schools, this is what we know about what will be in the NSW budget next week.

  • Penry Buckley
A bus depot in Tempe. Most contracts pay drivers more for driving bendy or double-decker buses.

The Sydney suburbs earmarked for 50 new bendy buses

The NSW Labor government is splashing out on new buses for established suburbs and new growth areas. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Professor David Brown at the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research at Westmead hospital said the current lab is no longer fit-for-purpose.

The $492m lab designed for dangerous pathogens and rapid testing

The outdated laboratory at Westmead Hospital conducts 3.5 million pathology-related tests a year and is about to get a major upgrade.

  • Kate Aubusson
The analysis is dated September 2023 and is among internal documents released under freedom of information laws.

Revealed: The $95 billion shock hidden in Sydney toll road proposal

A confidential Treasury analysis reveals the staggering cost of a major change to toll roads that had been recommended by a review.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said the state must prioritise growth in 2025.

The boom industries NSW must rely on to avoid a grim decade

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says NSW this year must focus on planning reforms – but delivering much-needed housing is not the only reason.

  • Matt Wade and Alexandra Smith
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The number of school students forecast to come to every suburb in NSW

The number of school students forecast to come to every suburb in NSW

Demographers say there will be an additional 51,926 primary and 40,497 high school students over the next 10 years to 2034.

  • Christopher Harris and Nigel Gladstone
Cost blowouts on infrastructure, such as the Parramatta light rail, have driven state budgets into the red.

States facing credit downgrades due to ‘lax fiscal discipline’

The states have been warned their credit ratings could be sliced due to their inability to control spending.

  • Shane Wright
Employment dividing line in Sydney.

Sydney has a stark unemployment gap. How does your area compare?

The city has both the lowest and some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, which threatens to exacerbate differences in income and wealth.

  • Matt Wade
Premier Chris Minns is seeking the intervention of the federal workplace umpire to halt industrial chaos on Sydney’s rail network

The $167 billion debt that shows why rail workers should make a deal

The state’s budget problems are a big factor in the rail dispute – the Minns government can’t afford to splash the cash.

  • Matt Wade

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