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Qantas boss Alan Joyce’s failure to launch after Canberra tour
Joyce experienced a frustration familiar to the great unwashed – he was forced to wait around for his plane to take off on Thursday.
- by Megan Gorrey and Patrick Hatch
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Former NSW premier Bob Carr tees off on Sydney golf course
NSW’s longest-serving premier is reigniting the squabble over prized green space in the city’s densely populated eastern suburbs.
- by Megan Gorrey and Patrick Hatch
What Rob Stokes did next ... ex-minister’s new role combines twin passions
Former NSW government minister Rob Stokes has been a man of leisure since he left politics. Now he has his sights set on an unusual fix to the housing crisis.
- by Megan Gorrey and Patrick Hatch
Teachers Federation comrade-in-chief Angelo Gavrielatos to step down
After years of campaigning and midway through an intense pay row with his Labor allies, Gavrielatos is finally ready to retire.
- by Jordan Baker and Patrick Hatch
Sportsbet boss no-show after spot of Barni
After the week he had, the odds of Sportsbet chief executive Barni Evans showing up at the Darwin Turf Club gala ball were slim.
- by Jordan Baker and Patrick Hatch
Cate Blanchett no longer Lady Marmalade as star unloads $800,000 artwork
The artwork by sculptor Rosalie Gascoigne will be auctioned after spending the past two decades at Blanchett’s Sydney and UK residences.
- by Angus Dalton and Simone Fox Koob
Dear diary: What the government’s first meetings reveal about power in NSW
In the government’s first few weeks, newly minted ministers met with newspapers, TV, Ray Hadley and billionaire nonagenarians.
- by Angus Dalton and Simone Fox Koob
Harry Styles announces Sydney wildlife donation – to the wrong zoo
Taronga Zoo is the recipient of a philanthropic gift from Harry Styles. But he announced he’d donated to a lesser known institution in western Sydney.
- by Angus Dalton and Madeleine Heffernan
Q and eh? Karvelas eyes live broadcast from India for flagship program
CBD can reveal big plans to take Q+A offshore – but don’t worry, it’s coming back.
- by Angus Dalton and Madeleine Heffernan
Embattled Home Affairs department awarded A+ for spin
Albanian criminals may be slipping through Home Affairs’ fingers, but opportunities to post Neighbours-themed memes are not.
- by Angus Dalton
Is the man who controls your taxes about to be replaced?
Little attention has been paid to the looming end of Australian Tax Office boss Chris Jordan’s second term, or who’s expected to replace him.
- by Amelia McGuire and Charlotte Grieve