James Robertson is a Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
The NSW police and Liberal party are under fresh pressure to investigate Felicity Wilson, the MP who falsely swore to have lived in her electorate for a decade, following a new police complaint and after five other Liberal candidates were suspended for irregularities in statutory declarations.
The NSW branch of the RSL has apparently breached its legal requirements for financial disclosures as a charity, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday.
It is an issue that has troubled electoral officials for years: do NSW voters value their local council elections? And would a serving of Japanese fried octopus swing your vote this Saturday?
The state government's privatisation push has extended to the sale of government land with more than $9 billion in government-owned property sold since the Coalition took power six years ago, a parliamentary inquiry was told on Monday.
As the state government hails a small bar revival following a recent liquor licensing overhaul, new statistics show almost none of the city's bars have taken advantage of provisions allowing them to trade past midnight and even as late as 5am.
As the NSW parliament prepares to vote on a bill giving the terminally ill the right to end their lives with medical assistance, a new poll has found widespread support for the policy extends to nearly 70 per cent of coalition voters.
NSW Labor's Luke Foley has proposed axeing the Queen's Birthday holiday in June and replacing it with a day commemorating Indigenous culture and loss as an alternative to moving Australia Day, which critics say is synonymous with white invasion.
The NSW coalition is spending up to $5 million a year more on political staffers since it took power, analysis of new figures shows, despite campaigning on a mantra of leaner government.
Labor officials were minutes from missing the deadline to run candidates in next month's election for a major Sydney council after its top candidate suddenly withdrew his nomination amid another investigation into allegations of preselection branch stacking.
The controversial waste management magnate behind plans to build a massive "energy from waste incinerator" near homes in western Sydney defended his environmental track record before a fiery parliamentary inquiry into the safety of the proposal on Thursday.
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