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SUNHERALD- Crowds of people inundated the streets of Byron Bay after Splendour in the Grass festival cancelled its first day due to bad weather. People waited in long queues to enter venues. Photo shows local band The Seeding entertaining crowds on the streets. The buskers played for eight hours to keep the swelling crowd amused.Friday July 22nd Photo by Natalie Grono

The plan to protect NSW’s most famous coastal enclave from whining neighbours

Pubs in the tourist mecca of Byron Bay have hosted Nirvana and The White Stripes. The local council wants to shield them from unreasonable noise complaints.

  • Megan Gorrey

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Murray Ellen, Founder of PTBlink which designs software used by manufacturing companies, alleges that his IP was stolen by employees of the NSW Education Department.

He blew the whistle on a $39 million school building tender. Now ICAC is investigating

Murray Ellen first raised concerns about Schools Infrastructure NSW as far back as 2022.

  • Michael McGowan
Willoughby business owner has been selling flowers for 45 years but says business has never been so bad.

This electorate is one of Sydney’s most affluent. It is not immune to cost-of-living pressures

Bradfield stayed in Liberal hands when electorates around it went teal in 2022, but can the party hold the once blue-ribbon seat at this election?

  • Alexandra Smith
Zeke Dumbleton, 10, and his mum, Greta, at Parramatta East Public School.

In five years, Zeke has never had a classroom inside his school’s building

Parramatta East Public School, like many in the region, has been over its student cap for years, but now new funding will bring its classes out of demountables.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Josie Lehmann and Isla Eade train in Blackwattle Bay.

‘Like putting a highway across a park’: The problem with the fish market ferry plan

Sydney’s rowers and kayakers are worried about being run over by ferries.

  • Megan Gorrey
The purported Sydney office for Australian Skills Certification doubles as a luxury tailor.

Out the back of a Haymarket suit shop, you can get your tradie qualification without sitting a test

Tradies can obtain qualifications without formal testing from a vast number of private organisations.

  • Max Maddison and Harriet Alexander
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Amanda Owen at her home in Baulkham Hills last year.

The building commissioner doesn’t think Sydney has a defects crisis. Tell that to Amanda

What does NSW need to do to solve its defects crisis? It starts by acknowledging there’s a problem – then taking these seven steps.

  • Max Maddison and Anthony Segaert
Sydney MP Alex Greenwich has welcomed the NSW government’s about-face on plans to introduce a bill banning gay conversion therapy in the state.

Voters aren’t just flirting with independents. It’s deep and meaningful now

Australians have seen that power-sharing delivers outcomes in the NSW parliament, and could do the same at a federal level.

  • Alex Greenwich
NSW Greens MLC and spokesperson for Health Amanda Cohn introduced the private members bill on abortion.

Abortion was made legal six years ago. So why has a new fight erupted?

Laws around access to abortion are back up for debate in NSW – here’s why, and where MPs stand on the new bill.

  • Frances Howe
John Moores and Paul Paynter were picked to run as Liberals for in the council elections until a major administrative mistake stopped them.

NSW Liberals launch class action over botched council nominations

Two Liberal party members who missed out on contesting last year’s council elections are behind a class action suing the party. 

  • Alexandra Smith

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