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Healthcare
‘We are letting women down’: critical midwife shortages at NSW hospitals
Serious staff shortages are compromising women’s maternal care, midwives are warning, with hundreds of vacant nursing and midwifery positions in NSW.
- by Lucy Carroll and Mary Ward
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NSW budget
$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
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Energy
NSW to make single biggest investment in renewable energy
The NSW government has pledged $1.2 billion to help fast-track critical transmission projects to deliver cheaper and more reliable power.
- by Alexandra Smith
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
Palliative care to get $743m boost in NSW after Perrottet concedes failures
Premier Dominic Perrottet vowed to “fix” palliative care funding during the debate into voluntary assisted dying.
- by Alexandra Smith
Editorial
Arts
Sydney’s entertainment scene is back bigger and better
A year ago, the city was locking down, but now it finally seems to have got its mojo back.
- The Herald's View
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NSW budget
One-third of NSW households to access payments for solar, white goods
One-third of NSW households will have access to 10 years of upfront payments to put towards a solar system or white goods.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Roads
The government added new toll roads - now it uses taxpayer money to help drivers afford them
Sydney is host to more than 60 per cent of the nation’s toll roads even though only about 20 per cent of the population lives here.
- by Matt Wade
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NSW budget
NSW had to move on wages – but the increase will have little impact
The Perrottet government had no option other than to increase pay for its 400,000 public sector workers.
- by Alexandra Smith
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