The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

A member of the selection panel for a New York trade role that went to John Barilaro says the recruitment firm involved may have been biased against him.

The NSW government is considering dismantling disaster agency Resilience NSW after a review into the state's flood crisis this year.

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Former judge and Labor MP John Hatzistergos has been appointed chief commissioner of the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption for the next five years.

Parents confront the NSW Education Minister during a visit to Walgett Community College, which has been impacted by violence and poor educational standards for many years, to demand an intervention.

The veteran minister says he's told NSW Premier Dominc Perrottet "I'll make myself available" in search to fill job vacated by Stuart Ayres.

Over two weeks in a country New South Wales courtroom, police officers were moved to tears, made apologies, and admitted that their best had not been enough as they tried to explain how Gordon Copeland, 22, died while fleeing from them.

The authors are cultural men who have undertaken learning on and through Country with Elders in NSW, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. This piece is the product of their own experience and understanding and is not intended to represent the views of all Indigenous people.

Five states and territories face another day of damaging winds and dangerous surf, with conditions are expected to worsen for millions of Australians.

Police say they've been able to create a "quite lifelike" digital version of the face of a man who was found dead in Sydney's south-west 35 years ago.