The Minns government’s move to lift the threshhold on stamp duty on a first home must be like a lottery win for some,but for most,the leg up into the housing market is a division four win at best.
The new scheme will mean stamp duty exemptions for first home buyers will be lifted from $650,000 to $800,000 and stamp duty concessions from $800,000 to $1 million.
To have a property lay vacant while the homeless are sleeping in their cars or in a tent in a nearby park,is a clear example of market failure.
For all the lofty talk of a new era of politics in this state after the election,Australia’s oldest parliament is called the bear pit for a reason.
That the outgoing NSW government entered secret contracts for $5 billion on privatised bus services just before the election is disturbing at a number of levels.
Plans for a public inquiry following last month’s dramatic statewide witness manhunt will be put on ice at the request of the corruption watchdog.
Increasing the Medicare benefit is needed but only as one part of a wider package of reforms needed to revive our ailing system of primary health care.
Multiple party sources say former attorney-general Mark Speakman will put his hand up to be the next opposition leader despite the lure of federal politics.
Money laundering,addiction and ruined lives:how a powerful lobby group has set up a multibillion-dollar industry.
A report that assaults across all NSW schools have risen by 50 per cent in the past decade is a harrowing outcome for education authorities,governments and parents who invest so much time,effort,money and hope into improving students’ lives and outcomes.
Liberal lobbyist Michael Photios also called for a restoration of “special powers” for party executives following a string of preselection failures and delays.