Former NSW premier Bob Carr tees off on Sydney golf course

Former NSW premier Bob Carr tees off on Sydney golf course

NSW’s longest-serving premier is reigniting the squabble over prized green space in the city’s densely populated eastern suburbs.

  • byMegan Gorrey andPatrick Hatch

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What Rob Stokes did next ... ex-minister’s new role combines twin passions

What Rob Stokes did next ... ex-minister’s new role combines twin passions

Former NSW government minister Rob Stokes has been a man of leisure since he left politics. Now he has his sights set on an unusual fix to the housing crisis.

  • byMegan Gorrey andPatrick Hatch
Ex-minister wants an end to Sydney’s high-rise apartments
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Ex-minister wants an end to Sydney’s high-rise apartments

“Hard density is being imposed on Sydney not through public consensus,but rather because it is structurally and politically easier to do,” former minister Rob Stokes says.

  • byMichael Koziol
Stokes overlooked for plum think-tank gig

Stokes overlooked for plum think-tank gig

With less than two weeks to go until polling day,soon-to-be Liberal retirees should contemplate their next career move.

  • byMichael Koziol
Sydney’s Chinatown plans revival with ‘strata for the street’ program
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Sydney’s Chinatown plans revival with ‘strata for the street’ program

The NSW government will trial a “strata for the street” program to bring Sydney’s Chinatown up to the standard of those in New York and Los Angeles.

  • byMegan Gorrey
Developer pushes to mandate social,affordable housing at all new projects

Developer pushes to mandate social,affordable housing at all new projects

Infrastructure giant Lendlease says the government should require future developments to contain at least 30 per cent affordable,social and build-to-rent homes.

  • byMegan Gorrey andMichael Koziol
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From bleak to beauty:Grand designs to transform an unloved city block

From bleak to beauty:Grand designs to transform an unloved city block

This empty lot on a much-maligned Sydney street has so much potential. Now 13 architects have unveiled their visions for what it could become.

  • byMichael Koziol
‘Must get it right the first time’:The uphill battle to fix Sydney’s Central Station

‘Must get it right the first time’:The uphill battle to fix Sydney’s Central Station

The NSW government is seizing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform Australia’s busiest train station.

  • byMegan Gorrey
Liberal candidate vying for Stokes’ seat defends voting record on pokies

Liberal candidate vying for Stokes’ seat defends voting record on pokies

Rory Amon insists he supports cashless gaming as he defended voting against a plan to reduce poker machine harm in Sydney’s northern beaches.

  • byLucy Cormack
Why Perrottet won’t risk an election-eve reshuffle

Why Perrottet won’t risk an election-eve reshuffle

The NSW premier is relying on his trusted frontbench lieutenants to sell the Coalition’s message,even if many of them will not be there after the vote.

  • byAlexandra Smith
City bike lane ‘missing link’ to open this year

City bike lane ‘missing link’ to open this year

A bike lane on King Street in the city will open by the end of the year,but another “missing link” cycleway along Oxford Street is still in the planning stages.

  • byChristopher Harris