Why Arthur Sinodinos fails the pub test
Kate McClymont and Sean Nicholls 1:40 AM When a Queanbeyan-based Liberal Party official rang the party's head office in Sydney prior to the 2011 NSW election, he had some good news and some bad news.
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Hundreds of apartments but only for the rich
Jacob Saulwick 3:23 PM The first housing project in the Baird government's trumpeted Central to Eveleigh development program includes 20-storey towers adjacent to the railway - but no new social or affordable housing.
'I went into panic mode'
Lucy Cormack Sue Bull has always been a law-abiding citizen who has paid her tax on time, and yet just one phone message left her frightened she would be arrested.
Appleby terror cell a tough nut to crack
Rachel Olding 8:14 PM The most menacing terror cell Sydney has seen may never be completely dismantled, senior police have warned, despite the gradual arrest of almost all its members in the past 18 months.
NSW housing shortage to top 100,000
Jessica Irvine 10:55 PM NSW could close its borders tomorrow and it would still take three years to build enough homes to fill unprecedented demand for housing.
Catastrophe that's wasting billions
Quentin Dempster 3:23 PM As scandals in the vocational education sector pile up with revelations of dodgy private providers and unscrupulous enrolment practices, a picture of an absolutely disastrous and economically wasteful government policy is unfolding, writes Quentin Dempster.
Miracle twins for meningitis survivor
Daisy Dumas 3:36 PM She survived a rare and potentially fatal disease as a toddler but now Danielle Weymark has two babies of her own.
Shirase returns to Sydney a hero
Marcus Strom 8:48 PM The Japanese icebreaker Shirase is docked at Garden Island this weekend, 105 years after its namesake, Nobu Shirase and his crew, were forced to find refuge at Parsley Bay in Vaucluse after a failed Antarctic expedition.
'There's always a Judas'
Eryk Bagshaw 10:25 AM An evangelical student group has refused to remove a vow to Jesus from its constitution despite being threatened with deregistration from the Sydney University student body.
You can't beat a good scone at the Royal Easter Show, top chefs find
Julie Power 2:28 AM Chef Mike Eggert of 10 William Street and his colleagues set off on a marathon eating effort to rate show foods using three categories: taste, value and fun.
How did a possum enter hospital's wards
Harriet Alexander Concord Hospital is in desperate need of an upgrade - a possum sneaking through a leaky roof is proof of that.
Sinodinos fires back as Turnbull urged to act
Sean Nicholls, Michael Koziol Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure to stand down his cabinet secretary, Senator Arthur Sinodinos.
'A classroom led by robotic widgets'
Eryk Bagshaw and Alexandra Smith 1:49 PM Could priority check-in and airplane boarding for teachers fix the profession's image problem?
Is the Mehajer empire crumbling?
James Robertson Salim Mehajer was cleared on Thursday of intimidation charges, but his business empire is under intense pressure.
Catholic Archbishop recovers from paralysis
Daisy Dumas 11:45 PM The Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, is hoped to be well enough to preside over Easter Sunday Mass after falling seriously ill on Christmas Eve.
Mehajer cleared of threatening Bruce Herat
Nick Ralston Salim Mehajer has denied threatening the father of a Lindt cafe siege survivor following an argument over weights at a Burwood gym.
Ten things you should not feed your dog
Kim Arlington It's a time of year kids love: Hunting down chocolate Easter eggs. But for your pooch, it can be fatal.
One-arm woodchopper has no axe to grind
Julie Power Axeman Nick Fredriksen is not your typical woodchopper appearing at this year's Sydney Royal Easter Show.
'I'm determined to stay as long as I can'
Sean Nicholls A year after Mike Baird won the state election, he says he is prepared to lose popularity to make the right decisions in the long-term interests of NSW.
Products putting 2500 kids a year in hospital
Lucy Cormack From glow sticks to common bleach and detergents, home is a poisonous place for children.
'This can't be swept under the carpet'
Esther Han Two Sydney mothers are pushing for a state coronial inquiry into Samsung's execution of a massive recall of washing machines that have sparked house fires across the country.
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Easter long weekend holiday services guide
Information on transport, church services, entertainment, services and shopping over the Easter long weekend.
Beppi Polese: the passing of an Italian tradition
Beppi Polese, who helped stoke Sydney's long love affair with Italian food, has died on the eve of his Yurong Street restaurant's 60th anniversary.
How Facebook decides which breasts you can see
An acclaimed artist is conducting a social media experiment on the naked form.
'The system is a scam'
New documents show how coal firms won the right to claim planting of grass or trees on old mine sites as conservation offsets for future woodland destruction.
'This is going to deny access to sacred land'
Bogaine Spearim is prepared to get arrested to protect our first peoples' right to access sacred land - which is under threat from the Baird government's plan to jail anti-mining protesters.
Stop treating teachers as 'widgets'
Twenty per cent of Australian 15-year-olds are unable to demonstrate basic skills. And the OECD education director knows what is behind it.
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Sydney terror raids
In October last year, police have arrested four people during counter-terrorism raids on a number of homes in Western Sydney, in relation to the shooting of police employee Curtis Cheng.
Mark 'Jack' Johnson's vision
Depending who you listen to, Mark "Jack" Johnson is a man with "the gift of the gab" or a "bully" but the former land council CEO has a lofty vision for the Indigenous people of Heathcote Ridge.
Woman, child found dead at bottom of cliff
RAW VISION: Police find the bodies of a woman and her young son at the bottom of a cliff in the Sydney suburb of Maroubra.
