NSW releases Sydney Gateway plan

The state government has moved to the next stage of planning for the proposed Sydney Gateway.

25 November, 2019

Rapid Metro build for Sydney’s second subway system

Massive new harbour crossing project starts 2018.

16 November, 2015

CPSU hits Australian airports with 24-hour strikes

Industrial action escalates action over Border Force pay cut.

29 October, 2015

Immigration and Border Protection staff vote 91% against pay offer

Airport strikes continue.

22 September, 2015

Parramatta no-fly zone to send Aspire to great heights

NSW government lifts height restrictions for 90 unit block.

25 May, 2015

Easter public service strike primed to hit airports

Fortnight of coordinated action for 15,000 CPSU members.

30 March, 2015

City of Sydney demands Trigeneration rules be relaxed

By Julian Bajkowski The City of Sydney is again ramping up its promotion of trigeneration as a viable alternative means of producing energy in the heart of the city. Having parked a wider electricity overhaul critics claimed would cost up to $5 billion, the CBD council is now pushing the New South Wales Parliament to […]

22 October, 2013

Developers battle bid to lift minimum Sydney unit sizes

By Julian Bajkowski There’s a longstanding joke that you couldn’t swing a cat in many of Sydney’s smaller flats and apartments, but debate over just how compact units in new property developments can has escalated into a full scale row over the future of the city’s industrialised inner suburbs of Botany and Mascot. Property development […]

26 August, 2013

Could Kurnell be second Sydney Airport site?

Opinion and Analysis By Simon Sharwood Debate over whether Sydney needs a new airport has run for thirty years and will probably run for another thirty. Along the way it has become a symbol for policy cowardice, the power of NIMBYism and Australia's sclerotic decision-making process. It's therefore time for a combination of callousness, vision […]

20 August, 2013