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6 days ago | 
smh.com.au | Max Maddison |Michael McGowan
By Max Maddison and Michael McGowan June 2, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Transforming Sydney Harbour’s last working port on Glebe Island into thousands of high-density apartments is shaping up as a key plank of Premier Chris Minns’ plans to increase housing after the collapse of his $5 billion deal to transform Rosehill Gardens racecourse into a “mini-city”.
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6 days ago | 
smh.com.au | Michael McGowan |Max Maddison
By Michael McGowan and Max Maddison June 1, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW Labor denies it has struck a deal with the conservative Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party to support paying bounty hunters to shoot feral animals, despite Premier Chris Minns’ abrupt decision to change the government’s stance on the controversial policy.
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6 days ago | 
watoday.com.au | Michael McGowan |Max Maddison
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1 week ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Michael McGowan |Jessica McSweeney |Kayla Olaya |Max Maddison
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1 week ago | 
watoday.com.au | Michael McGowan |Jessica McSweeney |Kayla Olaya |Max Maddison
“There has been no integrity in this process, no accountability, no leadership,” she said in the statement. The proposal was defeated 56.1 per cent to 43.9 per cent, with 4413 votes against it and 3451 votes for, after several months of campaigning and multiple delays. The lead-up to the vote was marked by a series of missteps and delays which deeply divided the racing fraternity in Sydney.
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Frances Howe |Penry Buckley |Max Maddison
By Frances Howe, Penry Buckley and Max MaddisonUpdated May 23, 2025 — 5.31pmfirst published at 1.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wild weather flooded tracks and closed railway stations in Sydney on Friday, creating widespread delays that stretched into the evening after heavy rains that brought devastating floods to northern NSW moved south and crossed the city.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Frances Howe |Penry Buckley |Max Maddison
By Frances Howe, Penry Buckley and Max Maddison May 23, 2025 — 1.11pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wild weather and heavy rains have flooded tracks and closed Sydney railway stations, forcing drenched commuters onto replacement buses once again this week, after the system that has brought devastating floods to northern NSW crossed the city overnight.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Max Maddison |Matt O'Sullivan
By Max Maddison and Matt O'Sullivan May 20, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All work will cease indefinitely on a new motorway in Sydney’s south after the contractors advised Transport for NSW their deal on the $3.1 billion project had been “terminated” because of tunnelling conditions that “could not have been anticipated by anyone”.
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Ben Cubby |Bianca Hall |Max Maddison |Paul Sakkal
The making of Sussan Ley as a federal cabinet minister came a decade ago when she was given a classic hospital pass, writes David Crowe. Ley was made the minister for health just seven months after Tony Abbott and his government unveiled a deeply unpopular federal budget in May 2014, with $80 billion in cuts to hospitals and schools. The health minister, Peter Dutton, was shifted out of the portfolio in record time and Ley was brought in to change policy and limit the political damage.
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3 weeks ago | 
brisbanetimes.com.au | Ben Cubby |Bianca Hall |Max Maddison |Paul Sakkal
The making of Sussan Ley as a federal cabinet minister came a decade ago when she was given a classic hospital pass, writes David Crowe. Ley was made the minister for health just seven months after Tony Abbott and his government unveiled a deeply unpopular federal budget in May 2014, with $80 billion in cuts to hospitals and schools. The health minister, Peter Dutton, was shifted out of the portfolio in record time and Ley was brought in to change policy and limit the political damage.
