Families grieving the loss of loved ones in potentially preventable incidents have expressed dismay over the NSW government’s failure to act.
NSW Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke has voiced her “full support” for embattled Resilience NSW boss Shane Fitzsimmons,even as her government plans to disband his agency.
The state government rejected five key recommendations of a report into the high numbers of Indigenous people in custody,while supporting another 16.
Twenty-eight MPs from across the NSW Parliament will support new legislation to legalise voluntary euthanasia,the highest number of co-sponsors to a bill in the history of any Australian parliament.
Simmering tensions between rival Labor factions boiled over amid a looming leadership challenge to Jodi McKay.
The Berejiklian government has dumped former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull from his role as head of an advisory body on climate change,saying the focus of the position should not be based on personality.
Farmers would be paid by the government to preserve core koala habitat on their properties under a new plan.
The Hunter Valley,heart of NSW's coal industry,is to become the home of the state's fourth renewable energy zone after a last-minute change to the Berejiklian government's energy legislation.
The Productivity Commission has recommended the IPC be retained,but it must make decisions faster.
New infrastructure is not keeping pace with Sydney's fast-growing population,adding to widespread resistance to rising development,Labor's planning spokesman says.
Complaints about energy retailers have jumped for the first time in five years. In an astonishing case,one company was caught sending struggling customers to a rival.