Bevan Shields

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Bevan Shields

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Today’s note comes to you from the Herald’s newly opened Parramatta bureau. At the desk behind me, bureau chief Anthony Segaert is finalising a project exploring an intensifying war about who gets to speak for western Sydney – particularly as the region’s economic, cultural and political power skyrockets.

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Bevan Shields

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In NSW, there’s no drama quite like an ICAC drama. At times, it feels as if Sydney is ground zero of corruption in Australia. How much of that perception is down to the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s high-profile work, and how much is because our politicians, public servants and institutions may somehow be more prone to corruption? It’s hard to tell.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Bevan Shields

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After five weeks of political twists and turns, ups and downs and claims and counter-claims, the federal election campaign is drawing to a close. Most voters probably can’t wait for it to be over, and who can blame them?

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Bevan Shields

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2 months ago | smh.com.au | Bevan Shields

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When US President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium last month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the decision was “against the spirit of our two nations’ enduring friendship”.