Ray Hadley says Sam Burgess should pay any fine he may receive after he made comments criticising the NRL judiciary. Burgess called the judiciary a “kangaroo court” after he served a one-match suspension for hair pulling. He will now meet with Todd Greenberg, where he must show cause as to why he shouldn’t be issued […]

A suspected ‘improvised explosive device’ has been found in an alley behind a bank on the state’s far north coast. A number of buildings in Mullumbimby, including the bank and the Byron Shire Council, have been evacuated and a 200-metre exclusion zone set up. The pipe bomb was found at just before 8am on Thursday […]

Alan Jones says the state’s anti-corruption watchdog often wrongly vilifies people and insists the system should be overlooked. ICAC investigates corruption but Alan argues there needs to be a change to how proceedings are conducted. He points out that former Labor minister Ian Macdonald and former union boss John Maitland were found to be jailed […]

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton could have greater power to strip dual-national terrorists of their Australian citizenship under new laws to be introduced to federal parliament. The new legislation would allow the government to target some terrorism offences committed as far back as 2003. Fourteen dual nationals have been stripped of their citizen­ship under existing […]

Rita Panahi has criticised a decision to knock back a major coal project in NSW. The multi-million-dollar Bylong Valley coal mine was rejected by an independent planning panel because of environmental concerns. The mine, proposed by South Korean company KEPCO, was deemed to be at risk of producing problematic greenhouse gas emissions. The project was […]

The NSW Minerals Council is accusing the government of throwing away jobs and neglecting the regions after a major coal project was refused. The multi-million-dollar Bylong Valley coal mine was knocked back by an independent planning panel because of environmental concerns. South Korea company KEPCO’s mine near Mudgee was deemed to be at risk of […]