At a time when some NSW hospitals can’t afford to buy bandages for their patients there are some areas of the bureaucracy where money is no object, writes Ian Evans.
Nsw state government
Newcastle TV reader’s dazzling ministerial rise
The meteoric parliamentary career of Jodi McKay, the Labor MP for Newcastle, continues to amaze her caucus colleagues in Macquarie Street, writes Alex Mitchell.
Paving paradise in Botany Bay
The ultimate defacement of Botany Bay is being proposed on Crown land by Rockdale Council, writes Alex Mitchell.
DGs fall like flies as Ridout fears a Rees recession
To lose one director-general may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness, writes Alex Mitchell.
Premier Rees screwed from above
NSW Premier Nathan Rees must now know what it is like to be screwed from above with yesterday’s news dominated by the revelation that an illegal brothel sits on top of his electorate office, writes Chris Seage.
Bye bye Troglodyte Minister for Science
Tony Stewart cast himself as vigilante crime-buster, fugitive from hired killers, undercover cop and all-round action hero, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Premier’s mini-budget is a mega-spin
Laughably, Premier Nathan Rees’s NSW Government is calling it a “mini-budget”, It’s more like a MEGA budget, writes Alex Mitchell.
Raw deal for NSW retirement village residents
In June this year when the NSW Government’s Retirement Village Amendment Bill was finally introduced in parliament, it became clear that residents would be worse off, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW troglodyte suspended
Small Business, Science and Medical Research Minister Tony Stewart has been suspended following a staffer’s official complaint that he verbally abused her, writes Alex Mitchell.
Sydney police take slow look at homeless charity
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione is under pressure to produce the results of an inquiry into the dubious charity called Just Enough Faith Foundation, writes Alex Mitchell.
Free flying in China – NSW Minister explains
Macdonald and his ministerial entourage accepted a private flight from Shenzen in southern China to Lanzhou in the far north-west during an official trade mission, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW regional hospitals can’t even afford postage stamps
Murwillumbah hospital on the NSW far north coast is so cash-stretched that it can no longer afford to pay its running expenses, and it is not alone, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Labor swears in Rt Hon “Robbo” MLC
For the first time in recent memory, the ALP’s Sussex Street machine seems to have chosen a parliamentarian of substance and ability, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW top bureaucrat quits with fatigue
Oops. NSW Pemier Nathan Ress has just lost Robyn Kruk, the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, the State’s most powerful bureaucrat, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Planning Minister faces Currawong challenge
The newly-chosen NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally is facing the first big test of her ambitious rise in Labor’s hierarchy, writes Alex Mitchell.
V8 promoters overtake NSW’s L-plate Premier
As NSW Premier Nathan Rees jumps into bed with AVESCO, the Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company, to bring car racing to the streets of Sydney Olympic Park, he should buckle the seat belt for a rough ride, writes Alex Mitchell.
Why I walked away from the NSW s-x industry
The government are ineffectual, unresponsive and prone to lobbying by the extreme left wing views of the Greens, sex worker organisations and some academics, writes Chris Seage.
NSW infrastructure tzar takes his revenge on Rees
David Richmond has walked out of the $300,000-a-year job as NSW Coordinator General after just 18 months, writes Alex Mitchell.
Petrol heads take gold at Sydney Olympic Park
The decision to introduce car racing from December next year represents a monumental failure of policy by the Labor Government which has now been in office in NSW for 13 and a half years, writes Alex Mitchell.
Rees and Orkopoulos: how much did the premier know?
There is growing evidence that only a wilful act of ignorance would have prevented Labor figures from knowing there were serious allegations about Milton Orkopoulos circulating, writes Bernard Keane.
Michael Costa to begin new life as a barista
CentreLink’s office in Sydney’s CBD has become crowded with new clients from the political hierarchy – Premier Morris Iemma, Treasurer Michael Costa and Health Minister Reba Meagher, writes Alex Mitchell.
We need to wind back the pub’s pokie addiction, too
It is common for the industry to present itself as a folksy, struggling community level business, providing mostly harmless fun to the suburban working class. Unfortunately the reality is vastly different, writes Charles Livingston.
Senator Arbib re-invents himself
Mark Arbib has moved to Canberra leaving the wreckage of the NSW Government behind him, writes Alex Mitchell.
