Michael Mcgowan
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The Knights may triumph, but who will win Newcastle? (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Whatever else it signifies, if Newcastle wins Sunday’s NRL grand final, much of the satisfaction locals in the Hunter will take from it will come from the defiant middle finger it will unfurl to Sydney. Perhaps more than any other city in Australia, Newcastle and the wider Hunter Valley operate on a sort of perma-reactionary instinct bred from a chip which is not so much on the shoulder as it is e
‘He’d lose to an empty chair’: The Labor preselection tactic to save two ministers (opens the original)
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Labor head office has held back the preselections of two ministers – including a key ally of Premier Chris Minns – over fears they could be ousted by local members if their nominations go to a vote, with the party preparing to intervene to stave off the potential for embarrassing challenges. At the same time, senior Labor sources have confirmed multiple veteran backbenchers may be convinced to retire before the election as the party struggled to comply with affirmative action rules requiring it
Crime is the punishment for a premier stuck in a law-and-order arms race (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. At a press conference in the level-nine garden at NSW parliament last week, Attorney-General Michael Daley was forced to pause as he shuffled through a thick stack of papers searching for an answer in one of the many, many crime bills his government is currently pushing through. Who can blame him? The spate of Sydney shootings linked to organised crime has prompted a rush of legislation from Labor
Racing NSW drops year-long probe into Mark Latham ‘swearing’ allegation (opens the original)
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Racing NSW has dropped a long-running investigation into what it previously alleged was abusive conduct by Mark Latham towards a race club official after a parliamentary committee found it was launched in retaliation for the firebrand MP’s opposition to the Rosehill Gardens racecourse sale. Racing NSW last year engaged one of Australia’s most senior law enforcement figures to investigate an accusation Latham swore at Steve McMahon, the chief executive of the Australian Turf Club (ATC) and archit
One Nation’s new man failed to use precautions and got himself into trouble (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. During an interview with the Herald last month, Mike Newman, One Nation’s neophyte leader in NSW, described immigration as a “federal issue” which had been “done to death”. “I’m a migrant,” said Newman, whose family hails from the United Kingdom, although, according to ASIC records, he was born in St Leonards, Sydney. “My wife’s a migrant,” he added. “I mean, you know, there’s a million ways to sk
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