Politics
NSW
NSW police commissioner failed to declare link to gin supplier
The NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb bought bottles of gin as gifts for visiting dignitaries.
- by Alexandra Smith, Max Maddison and Megan Gorrey
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Latham launches extraordinary attack on Racing NSW chief Peter V’landys
Racing NSW supremo Peter V’landys has hit back, challenging the upper house MP to repeat the claims outside the “coward’s castle” of parliament.
- by Max Maddison and Michael Koziol
How our education system is becoming an industry
To grow our economy and to enhance our society we need our universities to produce increasing numbers of graduates with the necessary skills, abilities and intellect to contribute meaningfully to our country’s future wellbeing.
Controversial businessman stripped of control of wealthy 82-year-old’s affairs
Valentino Kovacic, who is fighting an eighth attempt to bankrupt him, had secured control of the affairs of dementia patient Joe Lagan.
- by Kate McClymont
Editorial
Dominic Perrottet
Perrottet farewells politics, but he shouldn’t be lost to public life
The people of NSW will miss Dominic Perrottet’s ideas and energy.
- The Herald's View
Howard and Keating’s ‘political love child’: Perrottet bows out of the Bear Pit
The state’s youngest-ever premier on the lessons he has learnt and the mistakes he made during his 13 years on Macquarie Street.
- by Alexandra Smith
Updated
Illness
The four NSW hospitals grappling with skin disease outbreak
People potentially at risk of an outbreak of scabies which has broken out across multiple hospitals in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area are being traced.
- by Kate Aubusson
Exclusive
Sydney councils
Philip Ruddock ousted as Hornsby mayor, points finger at ‘property developer interests’
The senior Liberal’s defeat in a preselection will almost certainly bring to a close his 50-year career in politics. He accused senior party members of orchestrating his demise.
- by Max Maddison
The two ways NSW Labor is acting to clean up scandal-plagued state CFMEU
The NSW Minns government has taken stronger steps against the state branch of the troubled CFMEU.
- by Alexandra Smith
Boxing gender debate is a cruel and ignorant beat-up
The controversy about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif displays a level of ignorance around the nuances of human sexual identity.
The NSW electorates with the most renters revealed
The NSW Labor government has stuck to its election promise for renters, but now it must convince landlords.
- by Alexandra Smith