№ 6 in Inside Westconnex
The secrecy that surrounds Sydney's $15 billion Westconnex
The Abbott and Baird government continue to keep our community in the dark about Westconnex.
NSW ALP
Voting Green because I'm a journalist - and all the other reasons
Why I support the Greens and voted for them in the September 2013 election
Keep Carmel 'Broke Funding Law'
Nicole Gooch and I continue our investigation into the Keep Carmel Twitter campaign run by One Small Planet during the 2011 NSW Election. The NSW Greens announced that they have complained to the NSW Funding Authority.
Who Was Behind 'Keep Carmel ?
"Claimed" said a tweet on the ‘Keep Carmel’ Twitter feed. Carmel Tebbutt had just won the inner-Sydney seat of Marrickville by a tight 0.9 % margin.
Labor's High-Rise Legacy
Article by Nicole Gooch and I about .....
Newcastle Business Lobby Targets Labor MP
This NSW election New Matilda story by Nicole Gooch and I was about a Hunter Valley lobby group Newcastle Alliance which declared itself as a 'third party organisation' and ran print and radio ads urging voters not to vote Labor. The Non- Labor candidates included Mayor John Tait and Liberal Party candidate, Tim Owen, previously the deputy commander of Australian forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What Will The Libs Do About Part 3A?
In the lead-up to the NSW 2011 State election, Nicole Gooch and I published a number of stories about the notorious Part 3 A leglislation which took power of planning decisions away from Local Council and gave it the Minister for Planning and panels appointed by the Minister. After the election, the new Liberal and National Party government is repealing Part 3A but it is not yet clear what form its replacement will take.