Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
"For years we have suffered from what are essentially deck chair shuffling solutions engineered by bureaucrats determined not to admit there were fundamental faults with the existing planning system. They were wrong!"
The biggest failure of this state government over the past 5½ years has been its refusal to implement any sort of meaningful policy on affordable housing.
Redfern is on the path to becoming another Surry Hills, which has already turned into a Balmain, which is well established as a Paddington, which might as well be Mosman.
Property developers, would you believe, are angry at the Baird government. How could this be?
There are all sorts of ways to cut the numbers. But whichever way you do, the amount of money Mike Baird's government will spend building prisons in the next few years is remarkable.
Mike Baird should bring forward elections for councils he has sacked. The delay is fostering suspicion.
Why has the state merged so many councils? And will the new councils be better than the old?
Should the development of new rail lines be based on their potential value to property developers? The government thinks so.
Some will say Baird's stadiums decision leaves Sydney with the second-best outcome - but it's the sensible option.
The Sports Minister has never demonstrated why the preference of the majority of Sydney rugby league clubs would be so terrible.
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