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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.

  • Max Maddison

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Sydney MP Alex Greenwich had decided to call time on his political career.

‘Saw fear in their faces’: The reason Alex Greenwich had a change of heart

The independent Sydney MP had decided to call it quits on public life. But two things have convinced him otherwise.

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW Opposition Leader and Premier Chris Minns have a year until the 2027 state election.

Election countdown: 365 days, two leaders and all eyes on One Nation

Chris Minns says voters are not interested in legacies, but with a year until the state election, the premier and Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane are staking everything on housing.

  • Alexandra Smith
NSW Premier Chris Minns has given his first indications on when he will leave the top job.

‘I won’t be here’: NSW premier reveals his leadership timeline

Chris Minns has for the first time put a timeframe on when he will call it quits.

  • Alexandra Smith
Fashion forward: Labor’s Sarah Kaine, Greg Warren and Greens Kobi Shetty.

Labor MP caught in ‘reply all’ email fail

Labor’s Greg Warren was unenthused about a Parliament House clothing swap, as the entire building soon found out.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman (left) and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

NSW Liberals vote plummets as brand damage hits state party

NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman will head into a parliamentary sitting week with diabolical polling hanging over his head.  

  • Alexandra Smith
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Sheikh Wesam Charkawi, convenor of The Muslim Vote, said the group will return for upcoming state elections in Victoria and NSW.

Muslim Vote to support candidates in NSW, Victorian elections

A pro-Palestine political movement that failed to win a seat at May’s federal election has vowed to push on, after strong results in some western Sydney neighbourhoods.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Former Liberal MP Rory Amon working at Leichhart Oval on the weekend.

Former NSW Liberal MP facing child sex charges pours beers at Leichhardt Oval

Former Liberal MP Rory Amon, who is facing trial for child sex charges, was working behind the bar at the Wests Tigers game on the weekend.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Cashless gaming.

The election promise NSW Labor doesn’t want to talk about

A cashless gambling trial was meant to guide public policy on poker machines, but divisions are wider than ever and the government is in a pickle. What went wrong?

  • Harriet Alexander
NSW state election map.

This tweak to the voting system would seriously advantage Labor. Will it happen?

NSW is the only state in Australia with optional preferential voting. Labor is thinking about changing that.

  • Max Maddison