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NSW
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Fertility
Sydney’s great baby divide: How fertile is your suburb?
Babies are increasingly scarce in some neighbourhoods.
- by Matt Wade
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The double act that gave Sydney Girls High its secret debating weapon
They’ve won contest after contest speaking in front of hundreds – but just don’t call these girls public speakers.
- by Emily Kowal
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Liberal Party
Beaches metro, negative gearing crackdown: The surprising policies backed by NSW Young Libs
Abolishing some of the RBA’s powers, limiting negative gearing and building a northern beaches metro are all on the agenda at the NSW Young Liberals’ gathering.
- by Max Maddison
In the race to replace Ward in Kiama, there’s one thing everyone agrees on
Both major parties are claiming underdog status in the campaign for Kiama as the shadow of Gareth Ward looms.
- by Jessica McSweeney
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Liberal Party
Charges laid after north shore teal candidate targeted in Liberal-linked threat letter
Tina Brown, along with Philip Ruddock and his wife, has been threatened in a series of anonymous letters authored by a Liberal volunteer.
- by Max Maddison
Opinion
NSW State Parliament
Liberal leadership rumblings have arrived, just as the leader himself predicted
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman is under siege. His Liberal colleagues must decide – is it better the devil you know?
- by Alexandra Smith
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NSW State Parliament
A rapist and bully but beloved by Boomers: The turbulent history of Gareth Ward
One-time Liberal Gareth Ward was loved and loathed in equal measures, but if you stood in his way he would “annihilate you”, according to his foes in the south coast town of Kiama.
- by Alexandra Smith
The day the wall and ceiling separated
Video taken by tenants shows the ceiling separating from the wall at this home. The tenants were evacuated the next day.
‘On board with Coalition or quit’: Speakman fires warning to colleagues
NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman has taken a stand against his detractors, insisting he will remain leader and defining the party as proudly YIMBY.
- by Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney
Why a Sydney council banished ‘troll bar’ from under the Harbour Bridge
Should trolls be allowed to roam under the Sydney Harbour Bridge? That’s the question at the centre of a planning row involving North Sydney Council, heritage groups and a determined publican.
- by David Barwell
Police officer sold his family’s gold bars to fund gambling addiction
The NSW police watchdog says officers who are problem gamblers are at risk of exploitation by criminals.
- by Michael McGowan