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Max Maddison

Max Maddison

Max Maddison is a state political reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Scott Yung speaking during the federal election campaign, with an advertising blimp hovering overhead.

Blimps, billboards and a $400,000 hole: The Liberal debt crisis haunting Bennelong

Scott Yung spent big trying to win Bennelong during the 2025 federal election. Now insiders say he won’t pay the Liberal Party back.

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Member for Badgerys Creek, Tanya Davies, voted against a government motion reiterating support for tighter gun laws.

Three Liberal MPs cross floor to oppose tighter gun laws

Liberal opposition to the government’s gun laws is growing, with one MP declaring the amendments do not deal with “the real problem”.

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Jonathon Watson from Valley Heights with his diesel Toyota Hilux.

Eighty NSW petrol stations without diesel as price passes $3 a litre

Jonathan Watson paid $170 last time he filled up his diesel ute and doesn’t know what it will be next time as his business feels the pain of fuel price hikes.

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Darren Greenfield (right) with Rita Mallia at a CFMEU protest against the administration in 2024.

Minister hits back as $111,000 icare payment to union comes to light

The opposition seized on a disclosure from the ETU in a budget estimates hearing on Tuesday. The minister had more to say.

  • Alexandra Smith and Max Maddison
Jim Minns and Chris Minns.

‘Around the Christmas table’: The premier, his brother and the five-day prison policy backflip

The premier says his brother tells him “exactly what’s going on” about corrective services. Jim Minns says the pair never talk about work.

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As many as 8500 homes will transform Bays West into a rare new suburb west of Sydney’s CBD.

Fancy living in Sydney’s next inner suburb? A one-bedder will set you back $2m

The NSW government wants to build 8500 homes west of Sydney’s CBD. The local MP warns it risks turning into “an exclusive waterfront enclave for the rich”.

  • Megan Gorrey and Max Maddison
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Former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins.

‘Lives at risk’: former emergency service leaders blast government over development ‘lunacy’ in Sydney’s west

“Developers’ profits are trumping community safety” over plans to develop in Hawkesbury-Nepean valley.

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Guido and Marisa Gallo.

Marisa once trusted her accountant. She’s spent two years trying to recover $900,000

ASIC alleges Christopher Edwards does not have “the judgment, skill or character to participate in the Australian financial services industry”. He denies any wrongdoing.

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Karen Hedberg fears she will not see her $3 million in superannuation.

Karen thought she had $3 million in her super. She can’t get hold of a cent

Karen Hedberg worked for 50 years. Her accountant Christopher Edwards says he has done nothing wrong.

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NSW Industrial Relations Minister Sophie Cotsis nominated Earlwood Wanderers Football Club for $15,000 in funding.

These community soccer clubs received funding after donating to Labor MPs’ campaigns

“Doesn’t pass the pub test”: Community sporting groups received $100,000 in funding under controversial scheme after donating to two MPs’ campaigns. 

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