Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on negative gearing.
Letters

Fix housing crisis by reducing capital gains

The product of the decision was the creation of a Ponzi scheme where the fastest way to a quick buck was through capital gains on housing. House prices are now more than 10 times the average annual earnings. This investment in housing was not for income from rent but capital gain,and the tax advantages it provides.

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys has dismissed allegations made against the organisation as untested and an attempt to smear him.
State Parliament

‘Orwellian’:Racing NSW under fire over culture and conduct

  • byChris Barrett
Opinion
Bushfires

Hazard reduction shouldn’t be hazardous. So why the escaped fire at Oxford Falls?

  • byIan Brown
Dick Caine outside Bankstown police station in 2022.
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Crime

Paedophile swim coach Dick Caine dies in hospital

  • byTiffiny Genders
The 12-month closure of the Bankstown line will start on Monday,forcing commuters to take replacement buses.
Public transport

Delay to shuttle trains starting during conversion of busy Sydney line to metro

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
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Politics

Gareth Ward has denied being drunk and in his underwear when he showed up at parliament in the early hours of the morning in July.
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State Parliament

MP denies being drunk and in underwear outside parliament at 4am

Gareth Ward,a former Liberal Party minister turned independent,said he had come to parliament in the early hours of July 21 after locking himself out of his apartment.

  • byMichael McGowan
Premier Chris Minns has announced the second tranche of his government’s land audit.
Housing crisis

The next Sydney sites in line for more housing revealed

About 1100 new homes will be delivered across surplus public land in Sydney and Newcastle as part of the Labor government’s land audit.

  • byMax Maddison
parking fines
Sydney councils

This Sydney council issued 92 paper parking tickets last year. It still made $9.5 million

  • byDaniel Lo Surdo
Sheridan Beaumont,right,and her father,Phil Barry-Cotter run tours at their oyster farm north of Sydney.
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Tourism

Swapping the Opera House for an oyster farm:new direction for Sydney tourism

  • byMary Ward
Professor David Hensher said the number of people who commute after the pandemic could drop by 10 per cent.
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Traffic

Sydney’s traffic paradox:More cars,less traffic

  • byNigel Gladstone

Crime&Courts

Dick Caine outside Bankstown police station in 2022.
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Crime

Paedophile swim coach Dick Caine dies in hospital

  • byTiffiny Genders
A coronial inquest is examining how Kenneth Toll,62,died following bilateral knee replacement surgery five years ago.
Healthcare

Ken went into hospital for knee surgery. Three days later,he was dead

  • byAngus Thomson
The man stabbed to death in Marrickville has been identified as Sitaleki Filihiahekava.
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Crime

Manhunt under way after popular rugby league player stabbed in Marrickville

  • byPerry Duffin andJessica McSweeney
CCTV catches a customer smashing a schooner glass on the face of a bartender at the Kogarah Tavern.
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Crime

Sydney pub customer glasses bartender in the face

Sydney pub customer glasses bartender in the face
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Crime

The horrific Sydney pub attack that changed a woman’s life

  • byClare Sibthorpe
Emergency services were called to Marrickville Road at Marrickville about 7.40pm on Monday after reports that a man had been stabbed.
Crime

Man stabbed to death on Marrickville Road

  • byRiley Walter
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Education

Christine Oliveri,here with children Valentino and Ellaria,moved to Harrington Park in Sydney’s south-west a decade ago.
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Education

The importance of proper planning for new suburbs

  • The Herald's View
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Education

The map that reveals Sydney’s flight from public primary schools

  • byLucy Carroll andNigel Gladstone
Education

Public schools to take on cyberbullying after class,publish clear rules

  • byChristopher Harris

Health

A coronial inquest is examining how Kenneth Toll,62,died following bilateral knee replacement surgery five years ago.
Healthcare

Ken went into hospital for knee surgery. Three days later,he was dead

  • byAngus Thomson
COVID inquiry

The secrets kept from those inside the nerve centre fighting COVID

  • byMary Ward andKate Aubusson
Editorial
COVID inquiry

NSW was better prepared to deal with a pandemic in 2020 than now

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