Giants’ awkward Covid-19 blunder
As the AFL scrambles to amend its schedule in response to Melbourne’s Covid outbreak, one team has found itself in a sticky situation.
Sydney Airport
Pandemic puts AFL on war footing
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan said hubs are not yet being considered despite one club being turned back at the airport.
Risks ignored in $30m land deal for airport
Officials focused on a ‘positive relationship’ with pastoralists and disregarded the risks of buying land for 10 times more than its value, a report says.
Sydney-Melbourne now fifth busiest air route in the world
Get the vaccine, get your life back. That’s Sydney Airport boss Geoff Culbert’s message as demand for key air routes returns.
What sparked train station evacuations
Police have revealed what sparked an operation that led to the lockdown and evacuation of two busy train stations in Sydney.
Rydges airport hotel put on sales runway
The Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel has been put on the market in what could shape as the year’s single biggest transaction.
Outback express: a whistlestop tour of the Big Four
You only need 36 hours to tick off the Outback’s “Big Four” on this whistlestop plane tour. So what’s it like?
Possible virus case halts Sydney Airport flight
Urgent testing is underway after an airline crew member’s ‘possible COVID-19 case’ halted a flight from Sydney to LA.
COVID scare at Sydney Airport
A COVID scare at Sydney Airport forced a flight to be postponed. Now health authorities are waiting on further test results.
New city of Bradfield honours icon
A new ‘hi-tech’ city set to be built on the doorstep of the Western Sydney airport has been named Bradfield in honour of the engineer who ‘helped shape Sydney’.
China-linked group snares Badgery’s Creek land
One of Western Sydney’s biggest developers sells a huge parcel of land next to the Badgery’s Creek bought for $3.5m for $500m.
Call for Covid jabs to deliver border freedom
Sydney Airport’s boss has called for border restrictions to be eased in line with the rollout of the Covid vaccine.
There’s fast, and then there’s this…
It turns out this ludicrously powerful Porsche is somehow even more impressive on the road than it is when racing jets.
High costs forced sidelining of rail and air projects
A second Sydney airport and a fast train between the NSW capital and Canberra were respectively delayed and scrapped altogether by the Howard cabinet in 2000.
Great Escape before premiers ruin Christmas
Unseemly scramble erupts for seats on last flights out of Sydney.
Airlines beg for calm amid chaos at Sydney airport
Australia’s major airlines are scrambling to adjust their schedules as travellers race to either flee Sydney or return home from interstate to avoid quarantine.
No cases linked to Sydney airport driver
A driver who worked at Sydney airport and was the NSW’s first locally acquired case in weeks hasn’t infected anyone else – deepening the mystery.
Sydney Airport lost items to be auctioned
From Apple AirPods to didgeridoos, a host of lost items from Sydney Airport have been listed for sale in an online charity auction.
‘Nothing beats face-to-face meetings’
The worst times bring out the best in your people, says Sydney Airport chief executive Geoff Culbert.
Explosion fears after truck rollover
A truck rollover near Sydney Airport has sparked traffic chaos for commuters that could last for hours, as emergency crews fear a petrol tank explosion.
More Qantas jobs to go
Qantas to axe even more workers as Sydney Airport bus services are outsourced.
Virus airport bungle ‘not the gold standard’
A police error that allowed two German nationals to bypass hotel quarantine in Sydney is “not the gold standard” expected, the WA Premier has warned.
Airport favours foreign airlines: Joyce
Qantas boss Alan Joyce has accused Sydney Airport of prioritising foreign airlines over domestic carriers in an effort to make more money.
Airlines ‘hoarding’ airport slots
Sydney Airport has accused Qantas and Virgin of hoarding valuable slots at the gateway to keep them out of competitors’ hands.
Travel time to new airport slashed
More than $9 billion will be spent on the rail link which connects the city to the new Western Sydney Airport, slashing commuter time for travellers.
$30m deal ‘reflects poorly on all of us’
Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy said he was ‘very disappointed’ the department he once spent $30m on a $3m parcel of land for the new Western Sydney Airport.
Poirot and the case of the Big Mac deal
As the AFP investigates the Western Sydney Airport land deal, who is looking into the case of the missing transcript?
Airport sale: Gladys’ man under microscope
Australian Federal Police intend to check if former NSW MP Daryl Maguire had any involvement in a controversial land sale near Western Sydney Airport.
Bureaucrats ‘may have covered up’ airport land deal
Public servants allegedly tried to cover up a Western Sydney land purchase that was worth a tenth of the $30m forked out by taxpayers.
High hopes for $5bn ‘Science Park’
NSW’s under-pressure Berejiklian government has ushered a plan for a new Metro station at the technology park owned by the billionaire Baiada family.
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