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Public transport
No end to stalemate as Sydney 36 hours from train shutdown
Commuters have been warned the passenger rail network won’t run from Friday morning until Sunday morning in a major escalation of a pay dispute.
- by Matt O'Sullivan, Jessica McSweeney and Anthony Segaert
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The train shutdown could derail the weekend. This is how one business is coping
Ahead of the looming rail shutdown, Rose Valente has hired a private bus to get her patrons to and from major football matches. Others are less optimistic.
- by Alyssa Talakovski and Anthony Segaert
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Water safety
Body of missing fisherman found in Sydney river
Emergency services were searching for a fisherman who reportedly failed to resurface after going into the Nepean River.
- by Anthony Segaert
Trampolines, ‘lies’ and videotape: Sydney playground spat takes bizarre turn
Councillors blamed an elderly woman for walking into a trampoline in a shopping plaza and accused a shopkeeper of adjusting CCTV cameras to film accidents.
- by Anthony Segaert
The town where 93 per cent of votes for local council weren’t counted
“We’re proud in Australia that it’s easy for people to vote … But we don’t make it easy for people to indicate their intention on the vote.”
- by Anthony Segaert
Failed AI tech company boss charged with misleading investors
The billion-dollar AI start-up Metigy collapsed in 2021, with its former CEO now facing five counts of making false and misleading statements, and one count of misusing his position as a company director.
- by Anthony Segaert and Nick Bonyhady
The new Sydney playground that left a woman hospitalised and children with burns
Multiple passers-by have fallen into the trampolines at Cronulla Plaza’s new playground, and the metal plates installed to cover them have now burned at least two children.
- by Anthony Segaert
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Sydney Metro
Sydney Metro says it would pay $91m for this land. Justin Hemmes wants more than double that
A family company belonging to the Merivale mogul says land it lost to the Metro West project would have formed part of an “Ivy 2.0” entertainment precinct.
- by Anthony Segaert and Patrick Begley
This is the plan to squeeze 30,000 residents into Sydney Olympic Park. Could it work?
It already has a train station and will soon be home to a metro stop and light rail. Is this the perfect place for hundreds of new apartments?
- by Anthony Segaert
Bill shock as Sydney residents asked to pay 50 per cent more for water
Sydney Water says it needs money to invest in infrastructure as the city grapples with a quickly growing population.
- by Anthony Segaert
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Property development
45-storey apartments in Gordon? Ku-ring-gai Council has one big problem
Several of the sites slated for high-rise development by council staff to avoid developing other parts of the suburb are in fact heritage-listed themselves.
- by Anthony Segaert
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