Minister for Planning Pru Goward today announced approval of The University of Sydney’s concept proposal to cater for significant future growth at the Camperdown and Darlington campuses. The Campus Improvement Program will generate almost $1.4 billion in investment, with up to 15,000 jobs created during construction, and an extra 400 full-time employees once the expansion […]
Family and Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton today announced a boost of $8.6 million per year until June 2017 for specialist homelessness services in NSW. The Service Support Fund was established to help specialist homelessness services providers that were unsuccessful in the Going Home Staying Home tender to deliver additional and complimentary services. Minister Upton […]
NSW Premier Mike Baird last night met with Indian community and business leaders in Parramatta to share details of his successful first official visit to India. Mr Baird visited the cities of Ahmedabad, Delhi and Mumbai in January following an invitation to attend the global business summit Vibrant Gujarat by Indian President Narendra Modi. “I […]
Health Minister Jillian Skinner was today joined by Coogee MP Bruce Notley-Smith and Liberal candidate for Sydney Patrice Pandeleos to officially open the state’s first permanent rapid HIV testing site in Darlinghurst. The NSW Government has committed $460,000 over two years to establish the a[TEST] shopfront at 167 Oxford Street. It will be operated by […]
NSW Premier Mike Baird and Family and Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton today announced a re-elected Baird Government will crack down on anti-social and illegal behaviour in public housing communities and evict tenants who commit serious crimes. “Public housing is a privilege, not a right. We will have no tolerance for people who don’t play […]
NSW Minister for Fair Trading, Matthew Mason-Cox, today revealed several real estate agents and agencies have been fined as part of a real estate compliance blitz in Sydney’s south “Over the past week, NSW Fair Trading officers have been out in Cronulla and the Sutherland shire investigating more than 114 real estate agencies as part […]
Demolition has begun on buildings and houses at Rocky Point Road Kogarah to make way for the first major ambulance station build in metropolitan Sydney for almost 20 years. Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the start of work at Kogarah marks a milestone in the Baird Government’s $150 million commitment to build five new super […]
NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced a re-elected Baird Government will introduce reverse vending machines across the state as part of a cost-effective container deposit scheme for the recycling of drink containers. Mr Baird and Environment Minister Rob Stokes today announced the decision at Coogee beach and said the government will engage in comprehensive community […]
Leading thinkers from the health, planning and transport industries drawn from across NSW gathered today in Parliament House as part of FitNSW, a peak annual fitness forum aimed at promoting more active and healthy NSW communities. The second annual FitNSW forum, organised by the Premier’s Council for Active Living, was staged to promote increased physical […]
Health Minister Jillian Skinner today unveiled the first of 12 new mobile breast screening vans which will be rolled out across NSW in coming months. Mrs Skinner was joined by NSW Chief Cancer Officer Professor David Currow as she inspected the van at an industrial site at Minto, in Sydney’s south-west, where final fit-out is […]