
THIS week the Newcastle Herald and the other NSW newspapers of the ACM network asked Premier Dominic Perrottet and Labor's pick to take his job at the March election, Chris Minns, if they would help protect the future of local news by guaranteeing, as Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has done down south, a full page of state government advertising in every regional paper every week.
We also asked whether, if they are leading our state's next government come March 26, they will reverse the legislative amendment in 2020 that removed the long-standing requirement for local councils to openly advertise development applications and other council business in the local paper.