Sydney is Australia's most valuable location, but public transport is its weakness and other top stories

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 ... >> view original

What to do in Sydney this Easter school holidays

www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/royal-national-park. Art Gallery of NSW. Photography tends to be an art form the selfie generation can relate to, which makes the exhibition The Photograph and Australia especially good for families. It brings together ... >> view original

NSW barristers slam Pru Goward for criticising 'glowing' references for rapist ...

Womens' campaigners are urging the Director of Public Prosecutions to review the sentence given to a nightclub rapist as controversy deepens over "glowing" character references provided by some of Sydney's most powerful figures. Luke Andrew Lazarus ... >> view original

NSW state election 2015: Alex Greenwich reclaims Sydney

"It certainly seems that Sydney has declared its independence once again," said a triumphant Alex Greenwich shortly before 8pm on Saturday night. The independent MP, who went into the campaign with a whisker thin margin of just 0.3 per cent due to a ... >> view original

Wild weather to wash out Sydney over the Easter long weekend

Sydneysiders heading out to the Easter Show at Sydney Olympic Park should expect soggy rides and mud in the show barns. Rain and temperature in the twenties are expected for Sydney and NSW this Easter holidays. "Friday has had fairly steady light rain, ... >> view original

Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition: Art Gallery of NSW to show controversial US artist

An artist whose work was described as "a monumental yawn" when it was shown in Sydney almost two decades ago will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW. A major retrospective of works by US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose images of violent ... >> view original

Sydney family faked doctors' certificates and congenital heart disease to ...

A Sydney family faked doctors' certificates and two cases of congenital heart disease in order to claim Centrelink benefits, a tribunal has found. Not only did Aklima Akter tell Centrelink that her son was suffering from the condition, she later tried ... >> view original

Property boom raining stamp duty on relected Baird government

The surging Sydney property market continues to deliver a stamp duty bonanza to the NSW government, helping to hand it a record take of more than $1 billion in January and February alone. The results, contained in the latest official figures published ... >> view original

Sydney's population to reach 5 million in a year

Sydney's population is set to top 5 million in the next year, after the city gained a record 84,230 people in 2013-14. The state's ten largest growth areas last financial year were all in the Sydney metropolitan area, as the city absorbed 77 per cent ... >> view original

NSW election 2015: How sweet it is - Baird welcomes new MPs and carves up ...

NSW is set for the most exciting years in its history, newly returned Premier Mike Baird has told a party room of jubilant Liberal MPs, saying the government will "get cracking" to transform the state with new infrastructure. But perhaps indicating the ... >> view original