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The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption is determined to nail former ex-MP Ian Macdonald on his ministerial dealings. But his patience was wearing thin today on the stand.

Eddie Obeid, in the dock at ICAC, is quizzed on the activities of his cashed-up family trust — but he says he was “hands off”, and appeared uninterested in the details.

Former planning minister Frank Sartor told the ICAC inquiry into NSW Labor party figures that 2009 was a “tawdry time”. As the Commission is learning, that’s quite an understatement.

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption has commenced its probe into former Labor MPs Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald. The state has waited a long time for this.

After being walloped on climate change and refugee politics, Labor has wisely opted to move the political debate back to its strength, where it hopes to sideline the Greens and put Tony Abbott on the back foot.

Linda Scott is poised to succeed Meredith Burgmann as Labor’s woman on Sydney City Council following Sam Dastyari’s weekend primary experiment that saw the refugee activist pip Cameron Murphy for the chance to lose to Clover Moore in September’s poll.

Last year NSW Labor overreached with a document outlining 100 so-called ‘broken’ promises from Barry O’Farrell. They haven’t learnt their lesson, as a new document demonstrates, writes Mr Tiedt.

The first Newspoll since the NSW election has Labor polling at an abysmal 22%. The next election is 42 months away and numbers were expected to be bad, but not that bad, writes Mr Tiedt.

Barry O’Farrell’s bombastic claims that Labor ”cooked the books” to cover up a $4.5 billion hole in the state’s finances are wrong many times over.

A week after the massacre, and the New South Wales election is wrapping up. The last doubtful seat in the lower house was decided on Friday, when the Greens claimed victory in Balmain — comfortably from the Liberals on preferences, but by just 205 votes ahead of Labor at the critical point. (They will almost certainly also […]

John Robertson is a rebel with a cause, a diabolically difficult one — to transform NSW Labor from a national laughing stock to a viable political entity. His time starts now.

Barry O’Farrell has secured the perfect victory over a Labor Party in denial. But even so, the window for major reform is small.

New South Wales Labor were the architects of their own demise, and what a spectacular downwards trajectory they forged. Bob Carr reflects on what went wrong and the party’s masterful grasp of self-destruction.

A week out from the NSW election, Labor’s poor position has deteriorated further, according to a new Essential poll.

Ten days to go now to the New South Wales election, and Labor, not surprisingly, just wants it to be over.