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Agreement unblocks free Sydney train fares

Planned disruption across Sydney's rail network has been averted after the transport minister and the union agreed to give free fares to commuters.

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Govt Accuses Climate Activists Of Affecting Regular Aussies As If The Floods Didn’t Just Do That

Do you know what else disrupts traffic and impacts regular citizens? Floods. Bushfires. Climate change.

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‘Industrial bastardy’: David Elliott offers free travel on Sydney trains as union threatens action

RTBU secretary says union will take industrial action if government does not provide free fares ‘as a way of saying sorry’

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NSW Transport Minister ups the ante on rail union offering free train travel every Friday for a year if workers promise not to go on strike

David Elliott escalates his stand-off with the rail union, offering to give train passengers free travel every Friday for a year if the union promises not to go on strike.

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NSW minister late to hear of rail shutdown

NSW Active Transport Minister Rob Stokes says he can't recall when he was briefed about last month's shutdown of Sydney's rail network.

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Top NSW rail bureaucrat sought urgent meetings with David Elliot before shutdown but was ignored

Rob Sharp, the head of the state’s transport network, tells estimates he wanted to brief the minister on possible outcomes but was denied a chance to

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Elliott grilled over rail shutdown texts

NSW Transport Minister David Elliott has been grilled about the shutdown of Sydney's train network last month, which brought chaos to the city.

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NSW Transport chief claims documents show rail shutdown met with ‘minister Elliott’s approval’

Dossier shows department in ‘ongoing consultation’ with minister’s chief of staff ‘throughout the day’, says transport secretary

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David Elliott intervened to stop department’s proposal to name Sydney Metro station after traditional custodians

Plans to name new CBD station Gadigal were signed off by previous minister but changed when Elliott took over transport

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NSW Transport official placed on leave before hearing on rail system shutdown

Megan Bourke-O’Neil had been due to appear at a budget estimates hearing on Tuesday

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Has the Sydney trains fiasco derailed David Elliott’s career for good?

It’s two months since a minister known for making headlines was given NSW’s most troubled portfolio. Some colleagues now agree with the opposition that he should go

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Sydney news: Labor leader Chris Minns calls on David Elliott to resign as details emerge over train network closure decision

MORNING BRIEFING: NSW Labor leader Chris Minns blasts Transport Minister David Elliott after documents show plans to close the train network began last week.

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NSW transport made plans for two-week rail shutdown as early as last week, documents show

A risk assessment tabled in the Fair Work Commission casts doubt on when transport minister David Elliott first knew of a shutdown

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Five key questions about the Sydney train network fiasco

Substantial gaps and contradictions remain in the timeline leading up to the decision early Monday morning to close the city’s rail system

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'I didn't get a call': NSW Premier grilled about train shutdown

Dominic Perrottet says he expects his cabinet to be on call "around the clock" after Transport Minister David Elliott went to bed while bureaucrats made the snap decision to close the state's passenger rail network.

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‘Not sufficiently precise’: David Elliott blames poor communication for Sydney trains fiasco

NSW transport minister says he was only warned of ‘significant delays’ to trains before going to bed the night before network outage

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Scott Morrison speaks to Ukraine PM; 60 Covid deaths reported – as it happened

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Limited NSW trains back on track for remainder of the week

The NSW premier handballed blame for the rail shutdown back to the unions after his transport minister said communications may not have been "precise".

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Labor reveals text message saying NSW transport minister was ‘briefed’ on rail shutdown

David Elliott says he went to bed before a decision was made to cancel all Sydney train services, as government withdraws Fair Work case

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Union calls on PM to apologise for strike comments; 34 Covid deaths recorded – as it happened

NSW government drops case against rail workers’ union; Australia closes embassy in Lviv, Ukraine. This blog is now closed

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More strikes ‘inevitable’ in NSW as government ramps up anti-union rhetoric

The removal of NSW’s 2.5% public service wage cap has taken on a new urgency for unions, leaving government spoiling for a fight

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How Sydney's train shutdown unfolded over a weekend of court hearings, and what happens next

The union and the NSW government are blaming each other for today's state-wide passenger train shutdown — this is what you need to know about the conflict.

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‘They did an Alan Joyce on us’: how the Sydney rail dispute escalated

Sydney’s train network will resume with limited services on Tuesday after a Fair Work Commission hearing was adjourned with no resolution

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NSW train chaos could continue tomorrow, commuters warned to 'avoid rail travel'

NSW's passenger train shutdown could continue into tomorrow, with unions and the state government still at loggerheads and commuters being warned to avoid rail travel.

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Limited service, discounted fares as Sydney's inner-west tram route resumes from February 12

Four months after it was shuttered due to major cracking in its vehicles, the 12.8km tram service is set to resume.

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