Politics
NSW
Opinion
ALP
Chris Minns’ best path to victory could be through Western Sydney
Labor’s western Sydney vote surged at the 2019 NSW election.
- by Andy Marks
Latest
Living longer, more part-time work and a booming population: NSW in 2061
The state will boast the country’s first trillion-dollar economy, worth about $1.4 trillion by 2060-61, and part-time work will make up 33 per cent of the workforce.
- by Alexandra Smith
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
There’s a way to kick-start migration safely and reap the benefits
Student accommodation providers have devised a plan that Australia should grab with both hands.
- by Jane Fitzgerald
Who is Chris Minns? NSW Labor’s new leader wants to be the next Keating
With 21 months until the next state election, the 41-year-old faces an uphill battle to give Labor a fighting chance against Gladys Berejiklian.
- by Lucy Cormack
Masseur arrested after allegedly sexually touching women in Ryde
Police began an investigation in March after reports from a 71-year-old woman who received a massage in the Top Ryde City shopping centre.
- by Nigel Gladstone
Exclusive
Labor in turmoil
‘Stop the toll mania’: Minns makes first pitch to win back Labor voters
New NSW Labor leader Chris Minns will spend the weekend working on the shadow cabinet he will take to the election.
- by Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack
Analysis
Labor in turmoil
Third time lucky: Minns’ first job is to heal wounds
The only hope newly minted NSW Labor leader Chris Minns has in unseating the popular Gladys Berejiklian is through a united party.
- by Alexandra Smith
Opinion
ALP
The only way out of NSW Labor’s disastrous leadership spiral is a ballot
A contest is necessary to obtain legitimacy.
- by Anthony D'Adam
Opinion
Construction
Light-touch regulation keeps on failing homebuyers in faulty towers
Several inquiries and law changes later, NSW is still doing too little to protect high-rise apartment buyers from the risk of substandard building.
- by Mike Steketee
$1.5m lost to NSW pokies every day in April, while major club prepares for cashless trial
Punters lost more than $2.2 billion to pokies in NSW pubs and clubs in the first four months of this year, with almost $600 million in April alone.
- by Lucy Cormack
Opinion
Factional politics
What matters most - power within Labor, or Labor in power?
The NSW Labor leadership battle between Chris Minns and Michael Daley poses an existential question for the opposition and the party’s members.
- by Alexandra Smith