Surpluses ahead but we'll pay for our success
Sean Nicholls 1:49 PM NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian has unveiled budget surpluses worth more than $8 billion over the next four years.
State Budget 2016
The budget explained in six charts
Inga Ting 6:18 PM It all looks rosy now but there's a sting coming.
Why NSW will lose more than $10 billion
Matt Wade 4:49 PM NSW is a victim of its own success when it comes to the taxing of goods and services.
$1b for new suburban trains
Matt O'Sullivan 12:40 PM It is the first major purchase for Sydney Trains since the troubled Waratah project.
NSW Budget 2016: Winners and losers
Kirsty Needham 5:21 PM Schools, trains and unicorns are in the money, while public servants and foreign property investors lose out.
New schools, 1100 new classrooms
Kelsey Munro 4:14 PM Sydney's north is the big winner in new school allocation.
$1b health boost but funding cliff still looms
Kate Aubusson 5:34 PM Health services will receive almost $1 billion additional funding in the latest NSW budget, but the budget fails to address the impending funding black hole.
$80 million for cycling infrastructure
Sean Nicholls Improving bicycle access to the Sydney Harbour Bridge could be one of the projects bankrolled by a new $80 million cycling infrastructure fund.
Latest NSW news
Defence force recruits forced to rape
Eryk Bagshaw 6:54 PM WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Teenage Australian Defence Force recruits were subjected to horrific sex acts that allegedly caused one to suicide, a royal commission has been told.
'I feel like my research is totally useless'
Lisa Visentin, Emily Smith 7:06 PM Sydney University will shut down its Sydney College of the Arts campus and transfer students to UNSW. The proposed merger has been met with a backlash.
Snipers' capabilities 'greatly diminished'
Patrick Begley 5:15 PM Sniping the Sydney siege gunman was never more than a remote possibility and a likely missed shot risked "catastrophic" consequences, an inquest has heard.
Could you beat the Class of '67?
Eryk Bagshaw The very first students to sit the HSC had no calculators. Can you answer the questions they faced?
'It's a weight off my shoulders'
Kirsty Needham April Sheppeard was living in a refuge with a baby when she enrolled in TAFE. Now she's getting high distinctions.
NAB customer 'felt violated'
Esther Han A major bank is being tipped off when disloyal customers approach its rivals seeking loans.
Early elections not ruled out
Jacob Saulwick The administrator appointed to run an enlarged Inner West Council says he would have no problem with council elections taking place early next year instead of September.
$3 million a week a 'waste'
James Robertson NSW taxpayers are spending $3 million a week on consultants, new figures show.
Surgeons charge patients exorbitant fees
Kate Aubusson Cancer patients are being charged exorbitant out-of-pocket costs for "flashy" surgeries by surgeons who don't disclose the full financial burden or alternatives in the public system, cancer experts say.
The 20 companies with no women on boards
Jessica Irvine Is it acceptable that 20 companies in the ASX200 still have zero female representation on their board?
Question no one in government can answer
Patrick Begley The NSW government does not know how many reports of sexual abuse against children in state care it receives.
Highlights
NSW might be the best, but budget could have been better
If, in these strange times, you have ever wondered what a genuinely conservative government would look like, consider the Baird government as revealed by its budget.
Why NSW will lose more than $10 billion in GST
NSW is a victim of its own success when it comes to the taxing of goods and services.
'It's real cowboy territory'
Consumer watchdog cracks down as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde and acrolein are found in vaping products.
HSC 2016: Study guide
HSC inspectors and teachers give their best advice ahead of this year's exams.
Sydney seats where job rates have improved
Unemployment rates in NSW federal electorates reveal a stark divide.
The $3 novelty ring with three lethal surprises
A Sydney mother woke this morning to find a button battery-operated toy she bought at Vivid in pieces in her son's hands.
VIDEO
ADF sex abuse survivor speaks out
Graeme Frazer tells journalists outside the royal commission that sex abuse victims like himself were 'treated with disdain' by Defence Force authorities.
NSW State Budget 2016: 'Could have been better'
NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian's second budget is good, but could have been better, says Fairfax's Ross Gittins.
NSW Budget 2016: Win or lose?
Schools and business see the benefits of the 2016 NSW state budget, while others lose out.
