'Let him walk away'
Jacob Saulwick 5:57 PM If Crown doesn't want to reduce its public land impact, NSW should let James Packer walk away from the deal and find another buyer, says top architect.
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Donations reform on leaders' menu
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Sean Nicholls 8:26 PM National political donations are in the spotlight again as Premier Mike Baird seeks nation reform.
Government must pay Mehajer's legal bill
![Salim Mehajer arrives at Burwood Court earlier this year.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/q/o/0/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gntsol.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn 12:15 PM It's the latest court win for the controversial developer turned politician.
NSW government's Big Egg link
![Shoppers, on average, pay 70 per cent more for eggs labelled free range, compared to caged.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/3/k/e/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnt94h.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Esther Han 1:34 PM A government-linked farm is supplying "free range" eggs to a company that has played a critical role in lobbying efforts to weaken labelling standards.
'Like playing Russian Roulette'
![Yvonne Skarbek.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/t/5/2/q/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsmnc.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Lucy Cormack 10:21 AM Yvonne had her Thermomix seal replaced following women being burnt interstate. But she has no confidence in the device.
'I think we're in danger'
![Jarrod Morton-Hoffman told the inquest he initially thought the bank across the road was being robbed.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/1/j/3/t/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsrz8.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Louise Hall The first hostage to give evidence at the Sydney siege inquest says he thought the Reserve Bank building near the Lindt cafe was being robbed.
Top mathematician mistaken for waitress
![SMH/EDUCATION/NEWS. Portrait of Nalini Joshi leading mathematician who is slamming gender inequality in Australia's ...](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/t/c/d/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsywt.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Eryk Bagshaw 4:36 PM "Australia is frozen in time," says one of the nation's top mathematicians, Nalini Joshi.
'It took forever but it was worth it'
![Rachel and Peter Maxwell are the adoptive parents of Leevi, born in 2009. Leevi's adoption order was made in February ...](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/t/d/z/7/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gns6zf.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Rachel Browne 2:12 AM It took six years for the Maxwells to adopt Leevii. And with only 87 children adopted in NSW last year, the state government is working on fixing the process.
Leary given another chance for parole
![The Hunters Hill bus stop where Terrence John Leary attempted to rape and stab a woman on June 19, 2013.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/r/f/r/c/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsq8w.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Rachel Olding 2:17 AM Terrence John Leary had been out of jail and on parole for just 10 months when his colleagues at a meat processing factory suddenly noticed a change in him.
'To Parramatta what Opera House is to city'
![The proposed design for new civic building in Parramatta.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/t/a/m/c/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnt7pl.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Melanie Kembrey 10:53 AM Parramatta has been busy telling everyone it is taking off as a CBD – and now it is set to have a spaceship-like building right at its centre.
Accused man's text messages to victim revealed
![Victim: Jamie Gao.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/i/m/3/0/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnt7wy.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Emma Partridge 5:50 AM Hours before university student Jamie Gao was shot dead inside a storage shed, he sent his accused killer a text thanking him for a drink.
How far can you go to protect yourself?
![Ricky Slater-Dickson, who was found inside a Newcastle home and allegedly killed by Benjamin Batterham.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/s/5/j/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsq7q.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Michaela Whitbourn What is a reasonable response to being confronted by a home intruder? It is among the most difficult questions that can be posed in a courtroom.
'Must be deliberate': 7-Eleven race claim
![A scandal at 7-Eleven was a key focus of the inquiry.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/m/n/0/n/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnshr6.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
James Robertson A Sydney lawyer has alleged 7-Eleven employed a de facto policy of ethnically screening its franchisees and, with ANZ, luring them with "easy" loans they could not repay.
Second minister caught in donations row
![Assistant Minister for Cities Angus Taylor](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/j/q/9/6/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gns7li.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Federal frontbencher Angus Taylor was briefed on a fundraising body that has embroiled cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos in a political donations row.
Enough marijuana to fill SCG three times over
![Victoria could be distributing its first home-grown medical marijuana by 2017.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/5/v/a/c/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnsbj8.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
James Robertson Malcolm Turnbull pledged $1b last December for an 'ideas boom' for Australia's future. A study has found legalising medical cannabis would create an innovative multi-million dollar industry.
Scots board dumping was 'invalid'
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Eryk Bagshaw The trustees of the Presbyterian Church acted invalidly in removing the Scots College Council to save the job of principal Ian Lambert, a former NSW judge says.
Emotional family of 'burglar' in court
![Ricky Slater-Dickson, who was found inside a Newcastle home and allegedly killed by Benjamin Batterham.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/s/5/j/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gns2z6.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Sam Rigney Emotional family members of alleged murder victim Ricky Slater have shown up outside the Newcastle Bail Court on Monday to demand justice.
'Priority to get job done properly'
![Bob Sendt: "We haven't been given a deadline, we're independent."](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/s/1/u/f/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnr0de.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Melanie Kembrey The newly appointed head of the Boundaries Commission says he is 'comfortable' with the body's level of independence from the government.
How Big Egg is winning the free range fight
![A free range egg labelling standard is being developed.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/7/u/s/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gns4wi.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Esther Han Consumers are about to get some certainly over free range egg labelling. But consumer and animal welfare groups say the options reflect what the egg industry, not shoppers, want.
The empty homes of Sydney
![The mismatch between housing supply and need could be artificially inflating Sydney's housing shortage, experts say.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/j/k/g/g/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnpc52.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Leesha McKenny and Inga Ting Sydney is in the midst of housing crisis yet up to 90,000 homes in some of the city's most desirable suburbs are empty, new analysis shows.
Body failed to declare $1m in donations
![Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos is under pressure over the NSW Liberal party's political donations scandal.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/m/q/t/s/g/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnrs1m.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Sean Nicholls The Liberal-linked body that has embroiled cabinet secretary Senator Arthur Sinodinos in a campaign finance scandal failed to declare to NSW electoral authorities receipt of almost $1 million in political donations for the year covering the 2011 state election.
Decision expected on reopening city jail
![The Parramatta Correctional Centre was closed in 2011.](/web/20160330141215im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/i/b/u/y/p/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gnpah0.11bc3y.png/1459329894402.jpg)
Melanie Kembrey It was Australia's oldest-serving jail until it was closed in 2011. Now the state government is set to decide whether it will reopen the jail despite plans for a major residential development nearby.