Madeleine Bower

Business push for workers comp changes to ‘sustain’ confidence

Walter Mikac, who lost his wife and two daughters in the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre will meet with Premier Chris Minns today to personally warn against Labor support of controversial new hunting legislation.

Distressed farmers waiting for relief funds to help them recover from devastating floods that hit the NSW north coast three months ago are fearing their struggles will be prolonged further as the NSW government goes through the “farcical” process of firing and rehiring natural disaster grant assessors.

Hospital patients across southwest Sydney have reported receiving the worst health care in the state, according to new data released today, which paints a dismal picture of major Western Sydney hospitals Liverpool and Blacktown.

The NSW Coalition will attempt to tighten the state’s protest laws this week and introduce a user pays system for repeat protesters after more than 90,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday, rallying against mass starvation in Gaza.

A fresh round of sweeping job cuts have hit the NSW public sector, this time with TAFE in the firing line as more than 100 jobs are slashed.

The state’s prisons are facing a major staffing crisis, with the shortage of personnel resulting in an increasing number of prisoner phone calls being unmonitored and leaving staff concerned they will not be able to fulfil new obligations to transfer prisoners.

Small business owners seeking advice on issues such as insolvency planning will be left with nothing after the Minns government cut the state’s only free business support service in last week’s budget.

Foster carers looking after the state’s most vulnerable children will have their allowance increased for the first time in 20 years, as part of a record $1.2 billion child protection package in Tuesday’s state budget.

Critically ill children are being treated in storerooms and in corridors at a major Sydney hospital, as staff struggle to keep up with an influx of babies despite a lack of resources.

Premier Chris Minns’s top three senior staffers could be arrested tomorrow for refusing to appear at an upper house inquiry into the Dural caravan hoax, after the Premier confirmed none of his staff would be attending.

‘Insulting’: Farmers hung out to dry after floods

Construction of even more new bike lanes in Sydney’s CBD this month has prompted businesses leaders to call for a moratorium on any new lanes to avoid worsening traffic congestion and harm to local outlets.

Clover Moore’s mission to replace parking spots with bike lanes is making it harder for small businesses to do deliveries in the CBD, as a new survey reveals the Harbour City’s centre is causing drivers the most grief.

Western Sydney residents are allocated a startling $1134 less per person for services in their local public hospital than their neighbours in the eastern suburbs, as clinicians reveal they are forcing patients out of hospitals early amid a massive shortage of beds.

Premier Chris Minns has slapped down suggestions forcing public servants back to the office was bad policy after Anthony Albanese labelled a Coalition crackdown on work-from-home rights as “out of touch”.

Slavery concerns over NSW electric bus imports to be investigated

Concerns that new electric buses commissioned by the Minns government have a “high risk” of links to slavery and child labour, have led to calls for the Anti-Slavery Commissioner to investigate.

Former NSW Nationals MP Michael Johnsen, who had been missing since Friday, has now been found safe and well, police confirmed on Monday morning.

Everyday Australians struggling to find affordable housing in a nation crippled by high rents and low housing stock will push for bold reforms, with 13 new ­suggestions on how to fix the housing crisis, including scrapping stamp duty and ­dramatically increasing rental assistance.