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May 29, 2025 – 7.04pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The debate about boosting housing in urban Australia has blown open around an intersection in Sydney’s inner-eastern suburbs, where three planned developments adding 585 new homes are pitting the local council against the state government over transport and affordable housing.

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May 26, 2025 – 5.59pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Teal independent Zoe Daniel will get her wish – in part – for an official recount of votes in the Melbourne seat of Goldstein, while Bradfield voters could end up back at the polls as an excruciatingly slim margin in the tightest race of the election slipped by one to seven votes.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Tom Rabe |Jesinta Burton |James Hall |Paul Karp

Tom Rabe, Jesinta Burton, James Hall, Paul Karp and Sumeyya IlanbeyMay 22, 2025 – 6.28pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Western Australia has indicated it is open to a NSW proposal to share goods and services tax revenue on a per capita basis as states push back against having to help subsidise the struggling Victorian budget.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Lucy Slade |Paul Karp |John Kehoe |Andrew Tillett

4 mins ago – 7.16AMBradfield separated by 43 votesLiberal Gisele Kapterian’s lead in the cliffhanger seat of Bradfield has been further reduced by independent Nicolette Boele to just 43 votes. This puts the contest firmly in recount territory, which occurs under 100 votes. There are just 309 votes left on hand to be counted by the Australian Electoral Commission. It’s possible a few more postal votes will trickle in by the Friday deadline, provided they were marked by the voter before May 3.

3 weeks ago | afr.com | Paul Karp

Paul KarpNSW political correspondentMay 15, 2025 – 7.40pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? NSW Liberals say the federal party’s secretive process to reform their constitution has left them in the dark with one prominent member even declaring a rewrite by US founding father George Washington would not have staved off the Coalition’s crushing federal election loss.