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Anthony Albanese and the house he bought at Copacabana on the Central Coast.

Albanese rents out his Copacabana investment property

Anthony Albanese and his fiancee Jodie Haydon initially attempted to rent the property for $1900 a week but reportedly dropped the asking price to $1500.

  • Olivia Ireland

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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
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
Good Ways salad sandwich

The $1.6b sandwich: Labor calculates bill for Dutton’s free-lunch pledge

The Coalition has yet to reveal the cost of its plan to allow small businesses to claim a tax deduction on work lunches. Labor says it will bust the budget.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
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
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Trump backer Pratt gave Albanese $1 million before PM attended Katy Perry party

As they gear up for an election year, the Liberal and Labor parties and their state branches raked in more than $64 million each.

  • Paul Sakkal
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
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said Australians would have been facing much more pressure under Peter Dutton.

Hooked on sugar-hit policies, we keep ignoring the tax elephant in the room

It’s been 25 years since a government sold tax reform to Australians. The time has come for them to try again.

  • Rachel Clun
Jo Haylen who took a ministerial car to a private lunch at Brokenwood estate.

‘Contempt for taxpayer’: Haylen to pay back cost of personal Hunter Valley tour

NSW’s transport minister booked a government car for a private trip with friends including colleague Rose Jackson.

  • Michael McGowan

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