Politics
NSW
Follow the leader: Labor’s mass walk-out amid question time chaos
In the latest chaotic scenes to erupt at State Parliament this week, Labor walked out en masse after Speaker Jonathan O’Dea kicked Opposition Leader Jodi McKay out of the house after she refused to follow his orders.
- by Lucy Cormack, Alexandra Smith and Tom Rabe
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Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Stay socially distant on Mother’s Day
The reintroduction of masks is necessary but they aren’t possible in some settings with a high infection risk.
- by Raina MacIntyre
Gatherings restricted, masks indoors as man’s wife tests positive
NSW reported two new coronavirus cases on Thursday, after the wife of a man from Sydney’s eastern suburbs tested positive on Wednesday morning was also found to have the virus.
- by Mary Ward and Lucy Cormack
Opinion
State Parliament
Extraordinary spectacle not befitting of Australia’s oldest Parliament
The way in which many of our state MPs behaved on Tuesday night was not befitting of elected officials. And it would not be tolerated in any other workplace.
- by Alexandra Smith
Rebel NSW Liberal MP kicked out of party over upper house job
Rebel NSW Liberal MP Matthew Mason-Cox has been expelled from the party.
- by Alexandra Smith, Lucy Cormack and Tom Rabe
NSW Parliment debate descends into chaos
NSW Parliament upper house descends into chaos during a debate on who will be the new President of the NSW Upper House.
La Nina’s final fury
NSW’s one-in-50-year flooding event in March that killed two people and forced 24,000 to evacuate can be traced back to September.
- by Josh Dye and Mark Stehle
Exclusive
State Parliament
NSW Liberal MP faces expulsion from the party after snaring $300,000 job
NSW Liberal MP Matthew Mason-Cox faces expulsion from the party after becoming president of the upper house.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Property development
Government wants housing plan to include private investment on public land
For the first time, all NSW government-owned property will be on a database to encourage “private investment on public land”.
- by Alexandra Smith
The 90-minute presidency: Upper house chaos as NSW MPs bicker over plum role
Gladys Berejiklian’s preferred candidate, Natasha Maclaren-Jones, was president for one-and-a-half hours before being ousted by her colleague Matthew Mason-Cox.
- by Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack
Confusion and apprehension likely factors in NSW’s slow vaccine uptake
An Australian expert in vaccine uptake says confusion and confidence are likely to be stopping people in NSW having the AstraZeneca shot.
- by Alexandra Smith and Kate Aubusson