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Merivale’s Justin Hemmes opened Club Rose Bay on Saturday. The company has more than 90 venues across the country.

Merivale’s pokie empire expands to Rose Bay

Billionaire Justin Hemmes has become one of the largest individual gambling machine operators in the state.

  • Harriet Alexander, Nigel Gladstone and Eryk Bagshaw

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NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman.

‘Someone has to do something’: Liberals turn on Speakman’s office

Polling has plunged the Liberal leader’s position deeper into the mire. Party MPs say the problems can be traced to his office.

  • Max Maddison
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman and one his potential contenders, the member for Wahroonga, Alister Henskens.

Can Speakman survive his party’s killing season?

There are many hurdles for the NSW opposition leader to confront – a Liberal powerbroker prominent among them.

  • Alexandra Smith
Erik Maranik gives evidence at the ICAC.

From ICAC witness to courtroom stoush over north shore sewer main

The Land and Environment Court heard a development planned by senior bureaucrat Erik Maranik could cause a “pollution event in Middle Harbour”.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Madeleine Heffernan
Richard Kingsmill was made redundant by the ABC this week

Triple J veteran Richard Kingsmill made redundant by ABC

On Monday, the ABC released a glowing tribute to announce Triple J music director Richard Kingsmill’s departure. It didn’t mention he’d been made redundant.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Bob Moritz has intervened in the firm’s Australian tax leaks scandal.

Will PwC fly in big boss for governance review release?

Ziggy Switkowski’s report, commissioned after the tax leak scandal, is set to drop right around grand final weekend. Talk about taking out the trash.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Trade Minister Don Farrell was pleased to beat the English at Tennis

Australian pollies beat their English rivals in parliamentary tennis clash

A bipartisan side continued Australian dominance over the Poms, despite a few sledges, in London on Wednesday.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Former NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman, seen in a file picture, is expected to run for the vacant Liberal Party leader job at a partyroom meeting next Friday

Speakman firms as Liberal leader after Perrottet officially calls leadership spill

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. 

  • Lucy Cormack and Michael McGowan
Liberal Party powerbroker Michael Photios at the Melbourne Cup.

Federal Liberals ‘dumb and dumber’ to keep moving right: NSW powerbroker

Liberal lobbyist Michael Photios also called for a restoration of “special powers” for party executives following a string of preselection failures and delays.

  • Michael Koziol
Rodney Adler says he’s owed $75,000.

Rodney Adler returns as company director

The disgraced former corporate high-flyer is back after a 20-year ASIC ban from directing a company ended.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and David Estcourt