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Jo Haylen has resigned as transport minister.

Transport Minister Jo Haylen quits over chauffeur scandal

Haylen, one of Premier Chris Minns’ closest allies in parliament, will step down from the ministry after a string of revelations surrounding her use of ministerial vehicles. 

  • Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Alexandra Smith

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Jo Haylen.

Why Haylen had to go – and why the premier resisted pushing her

Premier Chris Minns is only changing the rules for parliamentary drivers because Jo Haylen was caught out. The government has better things to do with its time.

  • Alexandra Smith
Transport Minister Jo Haylen.

Minns to ask transport minister about alleged second winery trip

After being blindsided on 2GB radio, the premier has agreed to confront Jo Haylen about another allegation of her using a taxpayer funded driver to take her on a winery trip.

  • Max Maddison and Jessica McSweeney
Transport minister Jo Haylen.

Haylen used taxpayer-funded chauffeur for kids’ weekend sports run

The transport minister will keep her job despite disrespecting the use of a taxpayer-funded ministerial driver, the premier said.

  • Max Maddison
Randwick council cleaners remove antisemitic graffiti from a car on Sunday after a spate of attacks on houses and vehicles in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Antisemitism stoush to dominate parliament as government blacklists white supremacist channel

The government has slapped first-of-their-kind counter-terrorism sanctions on the Terrorgram online network as part of a crackdown on antisemitism.

  • Matthew Knott and Sally Rawsthorne
Cashless gaming.

The election promise NSW Labor doesn’t want to talk about

A cashless gambling trial was meant to guide public policy on poker machines, but divisions are wider than ever and the government is in a pickle. What went wrong?

  • Harriet Alexander
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media at the Swinburne Tafe, Croydon.

‘Alarming breakdown’: Albanese under pressure to reveal when he learnt of terror plot

Experts say authorities should have warned Albanese about the discovery of a caravan full of explosives earlier as terrorism is “an attack on our whole nation”.

  • Matthew Knott, Alexandra Smith and David Crowe
Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and NSW Police deputy commissioner and counter-terror chief Dave Hudson.

Who knew and who didn’t: Inside the caravan bomb discovery that blindsided federal ministers

The key decision made after the explosives were found was that the details of the investigation had to remain under wraps, which meant political leaders could not know.

  • David Crowe and Perry Duffin
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pictured last week.

Albanese says antisemitic ‘cowards’ will be ‘hunted down, locked up’

Israel’s foreign minister said antisemitism was “spreading in Australia almost unchecked” and he expected more action to stop attacks on the Jewish community.

  • Matthew Knott
Powergel explosives are widely used by the mining industry for blasting and tunnelling.

What is Powergel, the ‘high-strength’ explosive that can take out a building?

The explosive discovered in a Sydney caravan is widely used by the mining industry and had the potential to cause a devastating “mass-casualty event”.

  • Riley Walter and Simon Johanson

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