'Baird's WorkChoices moment': union pledges $1m hospitals campaign
A powerful union says it will spend up to $1 million to campaign against the Baird government's plans to privatise the operation of five hospitals.
James Robertson is a Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
A powerful union says it will spend up to $1 million to campaign against the Baird government's plans to privatise the operation of five hospitals.
The state government says it will rewrite the law governing the way NSW buildings are certified after practices for ensuring buildings were fire safe were ruled as "totally ineffectual".
You might never notice the results but across NSW money is being spent changing the logo that sits atop your rates bill.
Labor leader Luke Foley has offered bipartisan support for legislation to strip taxpayer-funded benefits for MPs found guilty of misconduct while in office, such as corrupt former minister Eddie Obeid.
The state government has been accused of sneaking through plans to privatise the operation of a further five hospitals across the state, announced on Thursday.
A coalition of emergency services workers has called on Premier Mike Baird to resist any relaxation of the state's controversial lockout laws.
Clover Moore has cruised to victory and a record fourth term as Sydney's lord mayor, as tens of thousands of businesses voted alongside residents for the first time in the City of Sydney election.
A colony of endangered Little Penguins, the last on the NSW mainland, have had parts of their critical nesting grounds allegedly cleared during building works at a restaurant, the state opposition claims.
The Liberal Democratic Party is standing by one of its councillors for the weekend's local government elections despite his recent affiliations to the far-right Australia First party and telling Fairfax Media 'Asians probably wouldn't make good soldiers'.
It's the curious case of the MP whose charity gumboots have shown up long after the rain's dried up.
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