I won’t be at helm in 20 years, it’s too long for me: Minns
Chris Minns has ruled out his own 20-year political rule but stopped short of a full-throttle call for Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore to ‘pass the baton’.
Alexi Demetriadi
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Mayor Clover into her 80s … at what age does Moore become less?
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore can expect a Biden-esque assault on her age and two-decade-long control of Australia’s global city as her opponents criticised her ‘monarch-like’ rule.
Don’t taint us all with Hamas brush: neurosurgeon
A Palestinian neurosurgeon whose family fled Gaza has said her newly arrived community had come here not just seeking help from Australia but to work for it, pleading with the government to ignore the Coalition’s call for a blanket ban on new arrivals.
Police called as Greens-led anti-Israel Sydney council protest turns ugly
Police have been called to a Sydney council chambers overnight, forcing the abandonment of the meeting, with councillors escorted out due to safety concerns after Jewish speakers were targeted | WATCH
‘We’re coming for you’: Burke, Labor warned
Dr Ziad Basyouny – who said cost of living and Palestine will be a focus – has launched his campaign to oust Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in Watson.
Party on campaign footing: Labor begins poll hiring spree
NSW Labor has put all but urgent business on ice as it moves through its ‘campaign footing gears’, recruiting an army of field directors and campaign staff ahead of the federal election.
Popular doctor to run against Tony Burke at next election
Southwest Sydney-based doctor Ziad Basyouny will run in Watson, the first emergence of an independent candidate in Labor’s heartlands amid the fallout from Gaza.
Payman won’t commit to Greens’ Israel sanction bid
Newly independent ‘no-strings attached’ senator says – Palestine-related or not – she wants to scrutinise the motion first, amid the news that ‘preference whisperer’ Glenn Druery will be her CoS.
Greens ‘stunt’ slammed by all sides
John Howard, Peter Dutton, and Labor’s strongest Israel voices have called the Greens a vehicle of ‘extremism’ as it prepared to urge the government to sanction Israel in parliament next week.
Opera House forum’s secret links to Beijing
The organisers of a seemingly innocuous Sydney Buddhism conference that courted Labor MPs have longstanding links to the Chinese Community Party’s United Front Work Department.
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