NSW energy supply ‘healthier’ as generators switch back on
NSW Treasurer and Energy Minister Matt Kean says he is unlikely to need emergency powers after “healthy” improvement to the state’s energy supply.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Healthcare workers to receive $883m in incentives to work in remote areas
The four-year funding commitment in next week’s state budget will be targeted at filling critical and “hard to fill” roles with packages of up to $10,000 per worker per year of service in the bush.
- by Lucy Cormack
Accepting gambling repayments without checks increased money laundering risks, Star lawyer tells inquiry
About 500 third-party deposits totalling $70 million were made in four years without any checks completed on where those funds came from, barrister Kate Richardson, SC, said.
- by Lucy Cormack
Before and after: why Star’s lawyers say it wasn’t suitable for licence, but it is now
Star’s barrister Kate Richardson, SC, told a public inquiry evidence had exposed significant failings and inappropriate conduct by senior staff. However, she said the organisation had changed.
- by Lucy Cormack
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$598m boost to national park firefighters, radio networks after Black Summer bushfires
A further $93.7 million in the state budget will go towards a climate change adaptation strategy embedding risk assessments and planning for floods, drought and bushfires across government.
- by Lucy Cormack
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$40.3m funding boost to support women facing ‘debilitating’ reality of menopause
Minister for Women Bronnie Taylor knows all too well the discomfort of sitting around a board table “and being so hot you want to open every window.”
- by Lucy Cormack
Calls for ICAC to speed up reporting on its investigations
Politicians want the commission to report within 12 months after a former MP has been kept waiting for nearly three years after he was first named by the ICAC.
- by Lucy Cormack
Energy crisis talks lead to deal to create Australia’s first clean power transition plan
Federal and state energy ministers have signed off on plans for a nationwide roadmap for the clean energy revolution.
- by Mike Foley, Nick Toscano and Lucy Cormack
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NSW set to write off $30 million frozen in Russian equities
The state government planned to dump $75 million worth of Russian assets from a state investment fund after Vladimir Putin launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine, but it has been unable to retrieve almost half of that sum.
- by Lucy Cormack
Unions reject government pay offer, push ahead with strikes
The NSW government will lift its public sector wages cap for the first time since 2011 but the move has been dismissed as insufficient by unions.
- by Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack
NSW lifts public sector wage cap to 3%, one-off $3000 payment to health staff
The government has been under intense pressure from unions representing nurses, paramedics and teachers to lift the wage cap from 2.5 per cent amid rising inflation.
- by Alexandra Smith and Lucy Cormack