The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

Morning Mail: Labor sweats on majority in NSW, Netanyahu bows to protests, Nashville school shooting

Labor still hasn’t pinned down the last seats it needs to avoid minority government; thylacine could have lived for decades past ‘extinction’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2023

NSW election results pave way for Mark Latham to re-enter NSW upper house

The former federal Labor leader returned to elected office at the 2019 NSW election, but resigned from the Legislative Council earlier this month, in the middle of his eight-year term in a bid to strengthen One Nation's presence in the chamber.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2023

NSW upper house results hang in the balance

The NSW upper house's slim right-wing majority could shift left as minor parties vie to join the largest crossbench in modern history.

AAP · Mar 27, 2023

Families remember 'adventurous' American firefighters during Black Summer plane crash inquest

An inquest into the death of three aerial firefighters who died when their large air tanker crashed during the Black Summer bushfires hears from their surviving families, as investigations fail to determine why the C-130 stalled.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2023

NSW Labor faces prospect of a leftwing upper house as it edges closer to majority

The party has definitively won 45 seats in the 2023 election and with leads in Ryde and Kiama, it is likely to secure the numbers to govern outright

The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2023

NSW election result ‘deeply rooted’ in western Sydney’s cost-of-living crisis

Labor victory shows the region lost trust in Coalition, experts say, and is not afraid to ‘flex its political muscle’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2023

Labor set to govern NSW, with majority in doubt

Needing 47 seats to form a lower house majority in NSW, Labor remained stuck on 45 on Monday afternoon.

The New Daily · Mar 27, 2023

NSW election: Voting comes down to the wire as Labor's leadership team poised to take over

Twelve seats remain in the balance with less than 60 per cent of the vote counted in NSW, as three prominent crossbenchers confirm they will "offer confidence and supply" if Labor fails to reach majority government.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2023

NSW Greens call on Labor to close Peabody-owned Metropolitan Mine at Helensburgh

The NSW Greens will push the new Labor government to close a major coal mine that has been operating in the northern Illawarra since 1887.

ABC News · Mar 27, 2023

Tears flow as US crew killed in NSW fires remembered

The families of the US firefighters killed during the Black Summer fires have remembered them as dedicated servicemen and loving dads, uncles and husbands.

AAP · Mar 27, 2023