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Healthcare
These illnesses once needed a trip to the GP. Now a pharmacist can treat you
As the number of GPs decreases, the list of treatments pharmacists can handle is expanding.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Political leadership
The Libs had a man with a plan to fix their problems. If only they’d told him
The Liberal Party’s federal executive voted to include Rob Stokes on a committee to take over the NSW division. Stokes was shocked to read about it in the Herald, then declined to accept.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Political leadership
NSW Liberals forced into 10-month federal takeover after council fiasco
Party president Don Harwin will lose his position, as a federal committee which includes former NSW minister Rob Stokes takes charge of the NSW Liberals.
- by Alexandra Smith
NSW to ban motels, caravan parks as emergency homes for children
The NSW government spends as much as $2 million per child each year on emergency housing in motels and caravan parks.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Hospitals
The Sydney doctors forced to choose who lives and dies
Clinicians at Sydney’s busiest hospitals have warned they could be forced to ration a life-saving treatment for patients with kidney failure.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Crime
NSW MP charged with child sex offences, quits parliament
Rory Amon, the former Liberal member for Pittwater, has been charged over the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Alexandra Smith, Megan Gorrey and Clare Sibthorpe
Opinion
Selective schools
I always knew Sydney school parents had lost their minds. Now I have proof
Schools catering for gifted kids have an important place in public education, but we have veered well away from this ambition in NSW.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Protests
‘Touch one, touch all’: Thousands of union members join CFMEU rally in Sydney
Thousands of members of the scandal-plagued CFMEU and other unions have gathered in Sydney’s CBD to protest against the Commonwealth’s takeover.
- by Max Maddison, Harriet Alexander and Alexandra Smith
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Sydney councils
Something bigger beckons for Georgia Ryburn after Liberals’ council mess
The NSW Liberals had hoped Georgia Ryburn would be Northern Beaches mayor before the party’s nomination snafu. Now there are bigger plans afoot.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Sydney Metro
My night out with the transport minister: 12km, three bars, one new metro line
Who said the metro was for only commuters? From North Sydney to the inner west, bar hopping just became easy.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Sydney Metro
How ‘metro mania’ could derail the housing crisis
Chris Minns and his government cannot claim credit for building the metro, but he should capitalise on it.
- by Alexandra Smith
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