The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

HSC art students featured at NSW gallery

Artworks from 2021 HSC students are being displayed in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW that reveals how students grappled with lockdowns.

AAP · Feb 2, 2022

Sydney news: NSW government spent quarter of a billion dollars on PPE that had to be thrown away

MORNING BRIEFING: A report has revealed millions of dollars worth of face masks, gloves, face shields and gowns have ended up in the garbage bin because they do not meet health standards.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2022

West Nile virus cases in horses rise in NSW as hot, wet summer fuels mosquito population

A horse in the New South Wales Hunter region has died and more across the state have been infected with West Nile virus in numbers not seen since the outbreak of 2011.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2022

NSW worker mandate call amid slow boosters

NSW has recorded 12,632 new COVID-19 cases and 38 deaths as Labor pushes for booster mandates.

AAP · Feb 2, 2022

Texts reportedly referring to Scott Morrison as a 'psycho' are in the public interest - but ethical questions remain

The leaking and use of text messages purportedly between former New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian and a member of federal cabinet, in which Prime Minister Scott Morrison is described as “a horrible, horrible man”, “a complete psycho” and “a fraud” raise several serious ethical issues.

The Conversation · Feb 2, 2022

View from The Hill: Morrison a 'psycho' – now who would have said that?

A flurry of categorical denials by senior ministers has followed the report that a current Liberal cabinet minister described Scott Morrison as a “psycho” in a text exchange with then NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian during the summer bushfires of 2019-20.

The Conversation · Feb 2, 2022

NSW government accused of 'keeping people in the dark' over cost of new Dungowan Dam

The NSW government is resisting calls to release the full business case for the proposed Dungowan Dam despite calls for more transparency.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2022

NSW Health apologises for standard of care in regional and rural areas as inquiry wraps

NSW Health says it's sorry for the suffering caused by the standard of care in some areas, but rejected some claims raised during the hearings.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2022

Leaking explosive text messages won’t solve the Liberals’ toxic internal dispute

Voters hate internal bickering. So dragging a wild factional brawl into the public domain is not a winning strategy

The Guardian - AU · Feb 2, 2022

Scott Morrison takes aim at NSW Liberals preselection battles, dubbing them 'childish games'

A federal intervention in New South Wales' Liberal preselections looms, amid a deepening split between the party's conservative and moderate wings just months out from an election.

ABC News · Feb 2, 2022