Michael Koziol is the immigration and legal affairs reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
The influential youth wing of the Liberal Party has launched a fresh assault on the federal government over NSW's lockout laws, sensing an opportunity in premier Gladys Berejiklian to have the "nanny state" provisions overturned.
Australia's most prestigious university has become the centre of a pro-Assad academic movement.
A noise-hating neighbour who recently moved to an inner-city suburb has succeeded in shutting down live music at their next-door pub after just one complaint, in an incident that has sparked fresh debate about licensing restrictions and NIMBYs.
From Sri Lanka to the NSW south coast, politicians are scattering far and wide for the summer holidays.
A record number of homeless people are sleeping rough on inner Sydney streets, in what lord mayor Clover Moore has described as a tragedy requiring urgent action.
NSW motorists cop parking tickets worth three to four times as much as their Victorian counterparts, with some fines as high as $637.
Globetrotting culture guru Tyler Brûlé has doubled-down on his previous criticisms of Australia's "nanny state" laws, arguing they sacrifice the sort of freedoms that terrorist groups like Islamic State want us to forgo.
As stakeholders throw statistics at each other, it's left to politicians and the public to decide what should be done.
Chinese restaurants of the south CBD, be warned. Regular tables are likely to go unoccupied in coming weeks, with a fresh wave of departures from NSW Labor's Sussex Street lair.
Fewer people are staying out late at night in the Sydney CBD and surrounding precincts, while antisocial behaviour has continued to decline, a City of Sydney report has found.
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