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NSW promotes EV-friendly road trips to tackle range anxiety

The routes – ranging from 171km through the Snowy Mountains to 819km along the Pacific Coast from Sydney to Tweed Heads – are kitted out with public charging stations at least once every 100km.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley

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Hugo Weaving on the Palace Hotel balcony in 1993.

The town that grew ‘on the back of a group of drag queens’

The spiritual home of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and the shearing shed that inspired Banjo Paterson’s Flash Jack have been lauded in NSW’s heritage register.

  • Julie Power
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says she is confident the lights- and air-conditioning- will stay on over the summer.

NSW faces a long hot summer. Will we have enough power to keep the air-con on?

NSW’s Labor Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is nothing more than a “hope and a prayer”.

  • Alexandra Smith
The Great Koala National Park will affect many people living and working on the Mid North Coast.

A national park would be good for koalas. What about the humans?

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Michelle Gray with her son Harry with their FOGO bin in Rose Bay.

Despite ‘smell issues’, NSW plans to mandate household food scraps collection

Australia is unlikely to meet national goals like halving the amount of organic waste going to landfill by 2030. But efforts are stepping up.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Clearcut forest in Clouds Creek in 2022, within the area proposed to be part of the Great Koala National Park.

The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved in

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Battery installers want the incentive scheme brought forward, but the government insists a five-month lead time will be safer.

How you can apply for a subsidised home battery from tomorrow

NSW households can claim up to $2600 towards the cost of installing a battery to store solar energy and as much as $400 to connect to a virtual power plant.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The town of Broken Hill in western NSW was cut off from normal power supply earlier this month.

It has been called NSW’s ‘friendliest city’. The mayor says that might be about to change

Broken Hill has endured 10 days of rolling power outages after a storm cut the outback city off from the electricity network.

  • Christopher Harris
Land clearing near Armidale.

‘Lost more than half our forest’: Why NSW is a global hotspot for deforestation

NSW landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Christopher The at Hearthe cafe in Stanmore offers a discount for bringing a reusable cup.

How the NSW plastic strategy could change your daily takeaway coffee

Forcing cafes to accept reusable cups, banning the release of helium balloons and phasing out plastic lollipop sticks are among ideas the government is considering.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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