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.
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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.
Petrolhead Morris Iemma’s V8 Homebush dream
The visionaries in the Iemma Cabinet want to offer a contract to a private company to stage V8 Supercar racing around the streets of the taxpayer-funded venue, writes Alex Mitchell
Last night’s TV ratings
A blow-by-blow account of last night’s primetime TV ratings battle.
Stokes Jr dropped the ball on Olympics deal
Kerry Stokes is going to miss the Olympics in 2012 after spending so much time and effort getting close to the IOC and pushing Seven into a key production role. In fact, the word from Seven is that Kerry is very disappointed at losing the rights to Nine, writes Glenn Dyer.
