Thursday, April 9, 2015

NSW Premier wasting no time with $10b Sydney Harbour rail tunnel and other top stories

NSW Premier wasting no time with $10b Sydney Harbour rail tunnel

NSW Premier wasting no time with $10b Sydney Harbour rail tunnel
NSW Premier Mike Baird is wasting no time getting the $10.5 billion Rapid Transit Network with drilling underway deep beneath Sydney Harbour. Along the 30km of new tunnels and surface rails connecting Bankstown with Chatswood and the North West.
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Search for Sydney photographer Jessica Bialek, missing from Coogee home

Search for Sydney photographer Jessica Bialek, missing from Coogee home
Eastern suburbs mother Jessica Bialek was intending to make a quick two-minute trip to her local bank to withdraw cash on Wednesday morning when she vanished. She never returned to her Coogee home to pay the cleaner, sparking a desperate search ...
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Southern hemisphere's biggest billboard a 'blight' on Sydney

Southern hemisphere's biggest billboard a 'blight' on Sydney
But the City of Sydney says the sign has outstayed its welcome. In a submission to the NSW Department of Planning, the council's city planning director Graham Jahn said the billboard's original purpose had been "lost" and it was now "a permanent blight ...
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School cleaner charged with murder of Stephanie Scott in Leeton

School cleaner charged with murder of Stephanie Scott in Leeton
"This is a tragedy for the family, it's a tragedy for NSW, it's a tragedy for society," he said. He said that police had been overwhelmed by the community's response. "We have been inundated with calls since Tuesday morning." But he asked people to now ...
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NSW drivers battle heavy traffic as Easter long weekend ends

NSW drivers battle heavy traffic as Easter long weekend ends
Live Traffic NSW is reporting heavy holiday traffic conditions for all major routes into Sydney from the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and South Coast on Monday afternoon. And bad weather may intensify traffic congestion. At 1.30 pm, the Bureau of ...
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Baird government ignores advice against 'part-time' Sydney cycleways

Baird government ignores advice against 'part-time' Sydney cycleways
"There is no precedent in Sydney for a part-time cycleway," says a presentation sent from the former director-general of Transport for NSW, Dave Stewart, to the chief executive of Roads and Maritime Services, Peter Duncan. The document lists 10 "cons ...
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The inner city precinct that is bigger than Barangaroo and almost apartment-free

The inner city precinct that is bigger than Barangaroo and almost apartment-free
But the new planning controls, which have been adopted by the City of Sydney, only allow private residential development in two "investigation" areas on the precinct's fringes – and only where this supports the provision of "substantial" affordable ...
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Severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of NSW

Severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of NSW
Sydney has been spared the brunt of the severe thunderstorms this afternoon, with the wild weather hitting the state further north. A thunderstorm warning was still in place for NSW, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, with storms affecting areas ...
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Sydney is Australia's most valuable location, but public transport is its weakness

Sydney is Australia's most valuable location, but public transport is its weakness
It is likely to surpass North Sydney as NSW's second largest local economy in four to five years. Sydney Olympic Park, which is very close to the city's economic centre of gravity, also has growing clout. The output of the Homebush Bay-Silverwater area ...
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Pregnant Jehovah's Witness' decision to refuse treatment 'harrowing' for ...

Pregnant Jehovah's Witness' decision to refuse treatment 'harrowing' for ...
At the same time, debate has raged over NSW MP Fred Nile's push to introduce laws making it a crime to seriously harm or kill a fetus in utero. Haematologist Giselle Kidson-Gerber said her experience treating ... Sascha Callaghan, an expert in ethics ...
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