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The NSW government defends the length of time it took to to enact approved legislation targeting organised crime figures involved in the supply of drugs.

Detectives investigating the shooting death of Rami Iskander in Sydney's south-west are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry, including whether he was targeted for planning a revenge attack over his uncle's death, underworld figure Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad, the ABC understands.

Sydney's gangland tensions have included 11 murders in the city's southwest over the past two years, with police pointing to drugs as the cause of the problems.

None of 17 markers on buildings where historical figures lived or worked, or where major events occurred, are in Labor-held seats

After a vigorous debate, NSW is introducing laws that will criminalise the display of Nazi symbols after a spate of recent incidents

Security measures at hospitals on the NSW mid-north coast have been beefed-up after a violent assault on health care staff at Port Macquarie Base Hospital.