Imagine a Sydney in which working people in suits with iPhones are lining up for food assistance.
The NSW government will not issue Crown Resorts a tax reprieve despite the business moving to cut 275 jobs,close one of its floors and reduce its casino hours.
Randwick,Waverley and Woollahra councils added just 7000 dwellings in the past 10 years.
Crown Sydney wants to renegotiate the 2013 agreement in which it promised to pay $1 billion in gaming taxes over 15 years,citing economic and regulatory changes.
Just two months after the deal was struck at national cabinet,NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey is asking for more money upfront instead of in five years’ time.
After grilling Richard Goyder in the Senate last week,Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie shook his hand on Saturday in the name of grand final unity.
As NSW and Victoria slash support for EVs,one social enterprise is offering discounts to lower-income earners to show how incentives can serve social and environmental ends.
Few doubt electric vehicles are the future,but Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s attempt to hold back time by scrapping the $3000 subsidy for drivers who buy new EVs is a backward policy already rendered redundant by a Sydney company offering the same discount to buyers.
The state government allocated $3.5 billion for new and upgraded schools in its budget. Here’s where they will be built.
Tuesday’s budget was risk-averse,unsurprising and helped along with a sprinkling of good luck. Or at least fortunate timing.
What did you think of the NSW budget? We spoke to six people to gauge the public’s response.