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More machines,more losses,more undelivered promises:Labor’s pokie pledges go bust

Labor is running out of time to pass laws before the next NSW poll and there are fears it may push the deadline for a crackdown out to 2031.

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Peter Beattie,Gladys Berejiklian and Steve Bracks

Some of Australia’s most successful leaders never made it to Canberra. Oh,what might have been

Maybe a Beattie,a Berejiklian or a Bracks could have been an Australian Andy Burnham. We’ll never know.

  • Nick Bryant
The NSW Government was forced to pay costs to Josh Lees after he successfully challenged their protest laws.

Revealed:How much taxpayers have been slugged to pay protester’s legal bills

The premier labelled this serial protester a “professional agitator”,but his government has forked out thousands from the public purse to cover his legal costs.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Premier Chris Minns and Labor MP Stephen Lawrence have not seen eye to eye on some issues.

The Labor MP at loggerheads with the Minns government again

Sydney barrister Stephen Lawrence was the lone government MP to back a report that made serious findings about the state’s top prosecutor.

  • Michaela Whitbourn andJessica McSweeney
NSW Premier Chris Minns and his battle over the pokies.

‘Super-tax’:Grassroots Labor revolt forces Minns into tougher response to pokies epidemic

The new deal is a recognition that even Labor’s most faithful supporters believe the government has not done enough to overhaul gambling laws during its first term.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will address hundreds of delegates in his home state on Sunday.

‘Barely coherent noise’:Albanese blasts budget critics and the ‘axis of grievance’

Addressing Labor faithful on Sunday,the prime minister is sharpening his attack on One Nation and the Coalition after the successful passage of his contentious tax reforms.

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NSW Premier Chris Minns at a Labor Party conference in Sydney in 2024.

Minns warns Labor must ‘climb Everest’ to beat back One Nation surge

Labor factions struck an eleventh-hour deal,demoting Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty to a precarious spot on the party’s Legislative Council ticket.

  • Max Maddison
The ICAC has lit the fuse on an explosive inquiry.

One red-hot tip has kept the rumour mill swirling for years. It could land senior Liberals in jail

Three years ago,the Independent Commission Against Corruption began to dig into the explosive allegations.

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The decades-old Tangara fleet will be built in a new manufacturing facility in the Hunter.

Minns backs Hunter with $12b to replace ageing Tangara fleet

The NSW premier will use an address at Labor state conference to announce the 15-year new trains package,drawing a battle line with the Coalition over offshoring.

  • Max Maddison
Apartments under construction in St Leonards.

NSW was meant to have built 75,000 homes a year for the past two years. The reality isn’t even close

The planning minister has blamed a statistical reporting method as a reason for the shortfall.

  • Max Maddison