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2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Big Build royal commission LIVE: Opening hearing to lay foundations for probe into alleged corruption on government building sites

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2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

‘Performative promises … have no place’: Liberals slam Hanson’s call to jail Andrews, Allen

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2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law

‘We’re just over it’: Union threatens firefighters over failure to pay legal action levy

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2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Wilson insists SRL position is ‘very clear’ despite days of confusion

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2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Jess Wilson knows the SRL can’t be stopped. Pretending otherwise is political shenanigans

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2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

‘Give them a go’: Liberal candidate advises vote for One Nation in upper house

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2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Projects already under way or which have lodged planning applications will be unaffected by them – including a data centre about 60 metres from homes. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Premier Ben Carroll revealed last month that former South Australian chief justice Chris Kourakis would lead today’s royal commission into the building industry. mixed

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Entertainment zones protecting live venues from residential noise complaints will be rolled out across Melbourne if Labor is re-elected in November, in a pledge it says will ensure the city’s pubs and clubs don’t stop the music. Creative Industries Minister Vicki Ward on Wednesday committed to a package of reforms and grants aimed at protecting and encouraging the state’s live music venues. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Shing once organised and paid for what may be the only drag story time event parliament’s history – because libraries around the state had cancelled their own events after receiving threats. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Workers were promised no frontline roles would be affected – but the definition of frontline was unclear, sparking concerns for jobs across administration, conservation and education. assertive

2026-09-27 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Police will take a back seat during mental health emergency callouts and allow paramedics and health specialists to lead responses under a new agreement intended to better safeguard thousands of highly vulnerable people. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Internal records from that meeting, seen by The Age, reveal the commissioners and executives discussed their diminishing capabilities and how they would reprioritise the issues they would continue to scrutinise, and those that would instead be placed on a watch list or ignored altogether. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A trove of leaked documents reveal how the state’s mental health watchdog was put on a path to ruin by the state government, with its powers, budget, staff and independence slashed to such an extent it could barely perform its safeguarding and oversight roles. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Victorian Premier Ben Carroll told ABC Radio that Nicholson’s comments were “appalling”, even as he opens up a royal commission into corruption that could call Andrews and Allan as witnesses. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 When Premier Ben Carroll was on Monday asked if he would accept the support of Greens MPs in parliament if it meant staying in power after November’s state election, he said he’d throw the keys back. assertive

2026-10-13 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Last month, lawyers for the union sent letters to members who were yet to pay the $644.82 Court Case Funding (CCF) levy, warning that they had been given instruction to begin legal proceedings if outstanding payments were not made by 12pm on October 9. “If proceedings are commenced, in addition to being required to pay the CCF levy, you may also be ordered to pay interest and costs,” says a copy of the letter, seen by The Age. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The integrity of VEU, which the government boasts has helped 2.4 million households and 180,000 businesses, will become increasingly important next year when the government will switch all solar rebates it provides on to the program. mixed

2026-10-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Three Liberal sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations, said the state executive had realised the party could be dragged into the court case. mixed

2026-10-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 That’s open until November 9 for people to nominate to be candidates and then our preferences will be done.” assertive

2026-10-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Coalition’s explanation of what a “pause and review” of the Suburban Rail Loop would actually entail is now as murky as the subterranean mud that tunnel boring machines are digging through. assertive

2026-10-31 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Opposition Leader Jess Wilson has insisted her policy on the Suburban Rail Loop is clear – before refusing to answer whether her plan to pause and review the $33.5 billion project would mean tools down on work sites. assertive