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Mayor of Sydney’s biggest council dies on flight home from China
Tony Bleasdale, a Labor Party veteran, was returning from a delegation to cities in South Korea and China when he died. He was 77.
- by Michael Koziol
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Councils are our favourite government, but ‘hardly anyone wants more of them’
Despite complaints about bin collection and potholes, most NSW voters say their local council is doing a good job - more so than either the state or federal government.
- by Michael Koziol
"Put some pork on your fork"
Some council workers repeated the chant after the leader said it, before adding, "We're doing a commercial".
Council workers accused of Islamophobic chants directed at Muslim mayor
Liverpool Council union workers chanted “Put some pork on your fork” and held up a plastic pig in a protest directed at the city’s mayor, Ned Mannoun.
- by Anthony Segaert
The unloved Sydney highway that could lead the way for Parramatta Road
A grand plan to transform the noisy and congested Woodville Road has taken a long time. But it might yet show the way for the city’s other arterial roads – including the one that has defied governments for decades.
- by Michael Koziol
Controversial former Canterbury-Bankstown mayor runs for council again
Khal Asfour was dumped from Labor’s NSW Upper House ticket over an expenses scandal. But he’s seeking re-election to Canterbury-Bankstown council in September.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Parishioners revolt against Catholic Church’s ‘hideous’ building plans
Plans for a six-storey building next to St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney have provoked opposition from churchgoers, heritage experts and a priest.
- by Andrew Taylor
Why high school kids need help crossing the road
Teenagers had the second-highest number of serious injuries after elderly pedestrians on NSW roads.
- by Andrew Taylor
‘Bright and unsolicited’ ads in the spotlight as Sydney billboards proliferate
The out-of-home advertising industry is booming with more than 130,000 assets across the country, with calls for greater regulation of LCD billboards.
- by Amber Schultz
Uber turned this neighbourhood into a car park. Residents are fed up
Wolli Creek residents say they have no street parking, and are contending with cars parked across driveways and anti-social behaviour.
- by Mary Ward
‘No one leave’: Police called to chaotic council meeting as CEO suspended
Union members refused to vacate the chamber when Liverpool’s Liberal mayor Ned Mannoun called a closed session to debate the future of chief executive John Ajaka, a former Liberal MP.
- by Michael Koziol