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Fri Jul 28 2017NSW council amalgamations: Mayors fight to claw back court dollars after backflip on merger Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced in February her government would scrap forced mergers for the country councils fighting back. This week she announced the same concession for select metropolitan councils. Greens MP David Shoebridge said he would be pushing for the legislation to be changed, and for councils to get money back from their protracted fights.
Saving Sirius: why heritage protection should include social housing Last year, the then state heritage minister, Mark Speakman, refused to list the Sirius block of public housing apartments on the NSW Heritage Register. Doing so would reduce the amount that the government, as its owner, might make from selling it. Now the NSW Land and Environment Court has ruled that the decision is invalid and must be remade.
Latest scandal in Australian politics sees a grown man blame his mother for turning him into an Italian Just to recap, earlier this week, Liberal National resources minister Matt Canavan resigned from Cabinet after claiming to have recently discovered he was a dual Italian citizen. Canavan, who has decided to stay and fight in the High Court because "his mother apparently applied for dual Italian citizenship for her 25-year-old son in 2006 without him knowing".