Circular Quay
$300m revamp for Circular Quay
Carolyn Cummins The face of Circular Quay is set for a $300 million revamp after the NSW government gave the go-ahead for the demolition of the former Coca-Cola headquarters and the development of upmarket...
Labor's nightmare without end
Linton Besser 'I said that in my CE,'' Ian Macdonald politely reminded Peter Braham, SC, on Thursday. The abbreviation is shorthand used among Independent Commission Against Corruption staff for ''compulsory...
Changing signs of time for commuters
Jacob Saulwick Sydney's train lines and major bus and ferry routes are to get new names.
Driven out: how much of George Street should be closed to cars?
Leesha McKenny It's the City of Sydney's vision of George Street transformed: a tree-lined boulevard accessible only to pedestrians and trams from Bridge to Liverpool streets.
Taxi driver suspended for putting lives in 'grave danger'
Kate McClymont Meet the taxi driver from hell. Sydney cabbie Nicholas Charles Brown, 55, has had a string of complaints about him, including overcharging, short-changing, smoking, failing to assist a pregnant...
Major disruptions likely for two years to build light rail network
Jacob Saulwick George Street will be torn up next year and the year after to make way for the state government's tram line to the eastern suburbs.
Cash-strapped Brit cruised into cocaine bust
Stephanie Gardiner Heavy-handed loan sharks, a cruise ship called Aurora, a friendly couple named Pete and Sheila, and Sherlock the sniffer dog.
'They are capable of everything,' says woman attacked by teen girls on bus
Megan Levy When a group of young teenage girls began racially abusing Kate* on a public bus in Sydney, she decided she had to stand up for herself.
Berejiklian booed at tram meeting
Jacob Saulwick Gladys Berejiklian tells residents that she will not change the route of a planned tram line through Surry Hills.
Revealed: Eddie Obeid's secret diaries
Kate McClymont Eddie Obeid's claims to a corruption inquiry that he played no part in his family's business interests have been contradicted by his private diaries, which list scores of meetings with Sydney's most...
City of Sydney increases funding for light rail
Leesha McKenny The City of Sydney has agreed to increase its contribution towards the CBD's light rail network by $40 million.
Berejiklian wants more help to fund light rail
Jacob Saulwick After requesting another $40 million from the City of Sydney Council to build a CBD light rail line, Gladys Berejiklian will appeal to other eastern suburbs institutions to help pay for the tram...
Diary Carr kept refers to Obeid's 'untidy' interests
Anne Davies, Sean Nicholls As far back as 2003 the former premier Bob Carr recognised that Eddie Obeid's ''untidy pecuniary interests'' were a ''vulnerability for the government'' yet successive premiers, Mr Carr included, did...
Obeid dumped high-flyer in his darkest hour
Kate McClymont KARL SULEMAN was once a high-flyer with all the obligatory rich man's baubles and more - a Lamborghini, four Ferraris, a $3.3 million luxury boat, planes, properties, racehorses, money to burn.
Paedophile Ferguson fought to the end
Sean Nicholls Dennis Ferguson spent the last chapter of his life at a secret location within a Department of Housing apartment tucked behind Oxford Street in central Sydney.
Grand vision is a sight to see
Anne Davies Two decades on, a pollie's dream gives the foreshore back to the people.
In praise of the Manly ferry
Tony Squires This is the perfect vantage point to watch the city as you burble away from it.
Spotlight on Obeid family empire in real estate
Linton Besser, Kate McClymont THE family of ALP heavyweight Eddie Obeid has been involved in tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate developments across Sydney and NSW over the past 20 years, including joint ventures...
Obeid lobbied minister over family company
Linton Besser, Kate McClymont LABOR powerbroker Eddie Obeid arranged private meetings with the former state treasurer Michael Costa to advance the business interests of a health company secretly owned by his family.
Obeid businesses in ICAC spotlight
Anne Davies Former Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid lives in a $10 million mansion in Hunters Hill that is in his wife's name, drives a top of the line Mercedes and the family is about to undertake renovations...
