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John Barilaro - Building and Pest Inspector for Resicert.

Living his pest life: John Barilaro resurfaces as building and pest inspector in north Sydney

The former NSW deputy premier has recently acquired the Resicert franchise business covering Sydney’s inner north. He told us it has given him “a real sense of purpose”.

  • John Buckley and Stephen Brook

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NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman.

Speakman stares down barrel of Coalition split over net zero

Opposition Leader Mark Speakman has reiterated his support for Coalition’s “long-standing position” of net zero by 2050. The NSW Nationals might go their own way on Tuesday.

  • Max Maddison
Long-footed potoroo in Kosciuszko National Park.

Rare discovery in Kosciuszko National Park as NSW rejects Barilaro-era brumby bill

Ecologists found a critically endangered creature in footage from a camera set up to monitor feral cats. It is found only in one other location in NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Feral horses seen at Long Plain, part of the High Plains area in Kosciuszko National Park

How Barilaro’s Brumby Bill of 2018 is coming back to divide the NSW Coalition

“Time to humanely euthanise Barilaro’s Brumby Bill”: Liberals move to repeal protections for wild horses in Kosciuszko causes crack in Coalition.

  • Max Maddison
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman

NSW Liberal leader must stand his ground against junior Coalition partners

After 97 uninterrupted years, one side of the NSW Coalition is contemplating going its separate way.

  • The Herald's View
ABC investigative reporter Mahmood Fazal.

The ABC reporter, the underworld postman and the ‘sinister threats’

Award-winning ABC reporter Mahmood Fazal passed on menacing messages from an organised crime gang to journalists, one of whom became so fearful he reported it to police. Fazal denies any wrongdoing.

  • Kate McClymont
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Feral horses at Long Plain in Kosciuszko National Park where numbers of the animal have exploded even as aerial culling has been resumed.

‘Zero tolerance’: Plibersek to consider extending brumby cull

The federal government has threatened to call for the removal of all feral horses from alpine regions rather than preserving 3000 brumbies on heritage grounds.

  • Nick O'Malley
Embattled NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen.

In defending the indefensible, the Minns government is treating the NSW public like idiots

The Jo Haylen scandal is a key test for Chris Minns. Is he a man of his word or not? Is he a premier who believes in integrity and accountability or not?

  • The Herald's View
John Barilaro at lobbyist Michael Kauter’s Referendum night party

John Barilaro boogies away at referendum night ‘No’ party

The former deputy premier was in fine form at a referendum night party hosted at lobbyist Michael Kauter’s Mosman villa.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
A review of the NSW Liberal Party’s election loss has blamed the Morrison government for damaging the party’s brand in the lead up to the poll.

NSW Libs blame Morrison, party ‘dysfunction’ and voter fatigue for election loss

Nick Greiner’s port-mortem says “It’s time” factor was the main reason behind the Perrottet government’s loss at March election – but Scott Morrison didn’t help either.

  • Michael McGowan