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NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman

‘Complacency, leaking, infighting’: Libs blasted in election probe

As Liberals plot a path out of opposition and wall-to-wall red governments, a review of planning for the March NSW election said officials put factional power games ahead of victory.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Lynton Crosby (left) and Mark Textor, in 2015.

Why Liberals fear Boris Johnson’s go-to pollster has lost its touch

NSW and Queensland officials are worried that CT Group can’t help the party woo younger voters, women and some ethnic groups.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
The new Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black.

Meet Bran Black: how Macquarie Street’s Mr Nice Guy got the BCA gig

He’s the congenial politico who has spent his career building consensus behind closed doors. And now he’ll represent big business to government. Is he ready?

  • Samantha Hutchinson

Berejiklian’s wilful ignorance of the personal and political

An otherwise highly capable premier, who led both NSW and Australia out of pandemic lockdowns, has fallen to an all-too-human lapse of judgment.

  • The AFR View

Berejiklian conduct corrupt, ICAC faces reforms

The NSW corruption watchdog will be forced to stick to “time standards” under reforms being drafted by the Minns Labor government after taking nearly three years to investigate former premier Gladys Berejiklian.

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  • Samantha Hutchinson and Tom Rabe
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May

Perrottet’s stamp duty reforms set to be torn up by Minns

Two steps forward, one step back: NSW Premier Chris Minns is set to introduce legislation tearing up stamp duty reforms in favour of more stamp duty breaks.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has shares in BHP and Rio Tinto.

NSW flags 4pc public sector pay rise to head off strike action

NSW Premier Chris Minns is facing his first industrial relations test just two months into power.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman

NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman: ‘I’m not really a head kicker’

In his first major interview since taking on his new role, the former barrister talks about adjusting to life on the opposition benches and steadying a party used to being in power.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Former Howard government adviser Grahame Morris has taken an unpaid role with his former employer, Barton Deakin.

‘Bleak’: No work for Liberal lobbyists because Labor keeps winning

Grahame Morris, a former chief of staff to John Howard, has left his long-time job at conservative lobby shop Barton Deakin, which is facing an uncertain future after Liberal defeats in every mainland state.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Former agriculture minister Dugald Saunders has won the NSW Nationals leadership

Nats dump leader on eve of NSW sitting week

Opposition Leader Mark Speakman said the leadership change was unlikely to derail the Coalition Agreement but could affect shadow cabinet appointments.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
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New NSW Liberal deputy leader Natalie Ward.

NSW Liberals elect Ward deputy leader after historic rule change

The lawyer and mother of two was elected after members voted to change party rules to allow upper house MPs to take the deputy leadership role.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
The owners of WeChat and TikTok have come under increasing scrutiny from governments and agencies across the world.

Banning WeChat would ‘damage’ democracy, experts say

Banning WeChat risks causing ‘emotional, psychological and practical harm’ to Australia’s Chinese-speaking community, experts have told a Senate inquiry.

  • Gus McCubbing

April

The tweets from One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham have drawn wide condemnation.

How Mark Latham blew himself up

The former Labor leader was primed to emerge as a powerful figure in NSW politics as a conservative populist. Then he miscalculated.

  • Aaron Patrick
The new Liberal leader Mark Speakman arrives with Damien Tudehope and Natalie Ward to a press conference at Parliament on Friday

Mark Speakman elected leader of the NSW Liberals, promising renewal

The Cambridge-educated barrister, who comes from the Liberal’s moderate faction, won the leadership 22 to 13 in a party room ballot on Friday.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

Mookhey skipped PE for maths classes. Now he’s treasurer

He’s ready for tough decisions, but consultation and an unwillingness to shoot from the hip will define the new NSW treasurer’s time steering the country’s largest economy.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey.

NSW’s AAA credit rating at risk as Mookhey starts budget repair

Secret briefings have revealed rising borrowings and expenses are putting pressure on NSW’s two remaining AAA credit ratings.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Responsible Wagering Australia chairman (and ex-Liberal senator) Nick Minchin said the body just didn’t have a position yet.

Online gaming lobby sees problems, demurs on solutions

Other industry players are far more open to things like blanket advertising bans, so it’s unsurprising many are blaming Sportsbet for the policy vacuum.

  • Myriam Robin
Traffic on Transurban’s CityLink toll road in Melbourne remains lower than pre-pandemic days.

Trips on Melbourne’s toll roads remain below pre-pandemic levels

Transurban reported a 13 per cent rise in group average daily traffic flows, or around 2.4 million trips, compared to the same period last year.

  • Jenny Wiggins

NSW delays budget, flags ‘tough choices’

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has pushed the budget back by three months and urged taxpayers to brace for pain as he prepares to swing the axe on Coalition spending commitments.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
NSW Premier Chris Minns has unveiled the first of what are expected to be sweeping changes to the machinery of government

Three NSW public servants will get $1.5m after being sacked

The NSW Premier unveiled a new-look public service structure including a plan to split the state’s Department of Premier and Cabinet.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
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Ousted NSW premier Dominic Perrottet and former treasurer Matt Kean. “We fended off the teals, we fended off One Nation, what we couldn’t fend off was a resurgent Labor after 12 years in government,” Kean said.

Liberal Party war: How the Perrottet-Kean dream team unravelled

In the last months of the NSW Coalition government, tension between premier Dominic Perrottet and treasurer Matt Kean’s offices reached extreme levels.

  • Aaron Patrick
NSW Minister for the Environment Penny Sharpe and Minister for Transport Jo Haylen

Electricity bills no higher as Liddell powers down in NSW: Sharpe

NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe has indicated the Eraring power station might have to stay open longer than intended to keep the lights on.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
The new NSW government wants to release information on toll roads operated by Transurban, including the new WestConnex motorway.

NSW drivers could soon see the cost of tearing up toll road contracts

The cost of tearing up Transurban’s existing toll road contracts in NSW could be released publicly by the end of the year under the newly elected Labor government.

  • Jenny Wiggins
Climate 200 executive director Byron Fay at the National Press Club this month.

Independents got more votes than the National Party on March 25

The advocacy group’s chief executive Byron Fay revealed that it backed Sydney independent Alex Greenwich during the election campaign.

  • Samantha Hutchinson
Menzies MP Keith Wolahan believes that boosting homeownership will be key to reviving the Liberal Party’s election fortunes.

Liberals bank on homeownership to fix ‘broken’ party

Liberal MP Keith Wolahan says boosting home ownership is the pathway back to government, as it is traditionally tied to a conservative vote.

  • Gus McCubbing