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Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky is a Fairfax Media columnist and was media director for former premier Mike Baird.

Announcements from the NSW government are made according to a tired shell-and-pea game with selected media outlets.

Rules of the game mean voters are being played

The conditions in which politics and the media operate in NSW are unique and strange. It's high time the public was let in on some of the backroom deals that shape NSW political news long before readers, listeners and viewers are allowed anywhere near it.

Former NSW premier Nathan Rees made a strong initial effort to speak directly and colourfully.

Orwell's vision alive in NSW in 2017

At some point, the language of marketing subsumed the language of statecraft. Everything that comes out of the mouths of politicians is designed to sell their achievements and demean the products of their competitors.

More people were killed in the US the month of September 2001 in car crashes than were killed in the September 11 ...

Why the bean counters are wrong about terrorism

Terrorism is not like car accidents, or shark attacks, or being squashed under a Westinghouse. Terrorism is not a variety of accidental death; it is a politically or religiously motivated variety of international organised crime.

Imre Salusinszky.

Premier's Whingeing Challenge a tight contest

Now in its 15th year, the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge is up and running again for 2017. The Challenge is a wonderful way to encourage the love of reading in children, from Kindergarten to Year 9, and last year attracted a record 277,000 students, who devoured 7.5 million books.

Nick Kaldas: The annual Kennedy Awards for journalism are a Kaldasian redoubt.

The two tribes of Sydney's media

The two covert media organisations exist to further the interests of, respectively, former NSW Police deputy commissioner Nick Kaldas and NSW Crown prosecutor Margaret Cunneen.

 NSW Treasurer, Mike Baird proposed to reduce the "GST low-value threshold."

GST pledge is one to dine out on

 IT was the most important conversation I ever had with my former boss, Mike Baird, and I can remember exactly where it took place.

Journalist Laurie Oakes.

Playing by the rules

So what are these "Chatham House Rules" that Channel Nine political correspondent Laurie Oakes left lying in a shattered heap, like a child's doll's house run over by a road grader?