The Guardian • NSW
Issue #2014
Flood, fire and famine
The 2022 Eastern Australian floods were one of the nation’s worst recorded flood disasters, destroying large parts of Southeastern Queensland and Northeastern NSW. The flooding...
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Issue #2048
HALF THE SKY
Elle Be In 2020, a bipartisan effort in New South Wales finally achieved success in the long-standing struggle for the legalisation of abortion. The change...
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Issue #2020
RTBU’S “rolling” actions highlight broken bargaining system
Workers at Sydney Trains and NSW Trains are taking industrial action throughout August over the Government’s refusal to negotiate in good faith. Health and safety,...
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Issue #2039
The right to protest should be law
Human rights and freedom are very popular terms at the moment, and it’s not hard to guess who is accused of violating them in Australian...
Read moreNSW police block efforts to protect remote Indigenous communities
It has been brought to light that one of NSW’s most senior police officers influenced the state government to reject proposed health measures designed to protect remote Indigenous communities.
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Issue #2006
Teachers’ Federation rally – Sydney
“MORE THAN THANKS”, the message that over 15,000 teachers had for the NSW government and specifically for NSW Premier Dominic Perrotet at Hyde Park on...
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Issue #2028
Bed block
“We are not excelling, we are drowning.” This is the headline of the NSW branch of the Australian Paramedics Association’s (APA) submission to the NSW...
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Issue #2140
LETTERS
Caravan Con Dear Editor, For weeks the ‘caravan con’ has wracked the NSW Government. A caravan, packed with explosives containing a list of addresses of...
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Issue #1982
Morrison plays favourites with the Commonwealth
A hallmark of conservative rhetoric is to decry that the opposition is being opportunistic and politicising a sensitive situation.
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Issue #2045
DINGO
The NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) welcomed the recent announcement by an increasingly desperate NSW Coalition government in election mode, after it committed to...
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Issue #2014
Workers across New South Wales fight for their rights!
Over the last two weeks, intense industrial action has been taken against the Perrottet government. Having held a mass meeting at Sydney’s Town Hall, The...
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Issue #2048
NSW: Coalition booted out
The message from NSW voters on 25th March was loud and clear. The Perrottet Coalition government took a hit, losing twelve of its 47 seats...
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Issue #2013
Anti-protest laws affect us all
Earlier this month, NSW police bungled a raid on Blockade Australia activists in the Colo Valley, in Sydney’s north-west. Activists at the remote camp noticed...
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Issue #2053
Portable bond scheme
The NSW Council of Social Services (NCOSS) “broadly supports” the state government’s Bill in Parliament to better protect renters, but has expressed concern around some...
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Issue #2072
NSW budget ‘miserly’ on housing
The 2023 NSW budget is a massive disappointment on housing. The NSW government’s miserly and inadequate approach to the housing crisis has dashed the hopes...
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Issue #2156
NSW: drinking water in danger
A multinational mining giant has recently announced plans to explore for coal under more areas of the Sydney and Illawarra drinking water catchment highlight how...
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Issue #2147
NSW: Minns public servants dodge scrutiny
A caravan filled with explosives and a note listing Jewish-owned properties turned out to be a staged hoax. Now a parliamentary inquiry into the affair...
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Issue #2209
NSW extends youth bail crackdown
The Minns government announced on 15 September 2026, that it’s extending its 2024 established youth bail crackdown in regional New South Wales, which targets 14-...
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Issue #2046
Illawarra renewable energy zone to deliver long-term work
Maritime workers living and working in the Illawarra are excited by the opportunities and long-term industry development that will come from the declaration by the...
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Issue #2091
Vale Mick OíShea, shearer, union leader, Dubbo local
It is with deep sorrow and profound respect that the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) announces the passing of Michael Joseph O’Shea, affectionately known as Mick...
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Issue #2047
“Port Kembla, not Fort Kembla”
Last month the Maritime Union of Australia’s (MUA) Southern NSW Branch Secretary Mick Cross welcomed news that Port Kembla will become a large-scale venue for...
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Issue #2119
The Battle for Cumberland Council
Local government elections have just been held across New South Wales and many seats remain undecided. The biggest controversy was the failure of the Liberal...
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Issue #2086
A small demonstration outside Corrective Services was held
6 February to bring attention to failures of the NSW prison system. There have been been 3 deaths in custody already this year, and the...
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Issue #2167
NSW unions win on industrial manslaughter
The New South Wales government has announced $6.9 million to create a specialised unit within the Department of Public Prosecutions to prosecute employers – individual...
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Issue #2048
Inequality deepens
New research shows one million people in NSW are living in poverty. With Western Sydney going backwards while Eastern Sydney is improving, inequality across the...
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Issue #2190
Results of Farrer by-election
The by-election results in the NSW electorate of Farrer are historic. One Nation has won its first seat in the House of Representatives joining Barnaby...
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Issue #2129
Woolworths strike concludes
On 21 November last year over 1,500 warehouse workers at 4 distribution centres for Woolworths in NSW and Victoria commenced an indefinite strike, seeking above...
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Issue #2179
NSW protests: this was planned. Chris Minns owns it.
NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peaceful protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia. I was there. Not...
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Issue #2152
ACTU supports police industrial action
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Executive formalised their support for the ongoing Police Association of NSW (PANSW) industrial action. On 30 June, NSW...
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Issue #2180
DINGO
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) looks forward to welcoming 3,200 new graduate nurses and midwives into the state’s public health system this year,...
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Issue #2167
DINGO
600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...
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Issue #2125
Nurses campaign for a 15 per cent pay rise
More than 60,000 public sector nurses and mid-wives took to the streets around Australia for the second time in a month on Wednesday 13 November...
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Issue #2206
Early emergency bushfires in Qld and NSW
Above average temperatures, out-of-control bushfires in Queensland and NSW and a looming monster El Nino send a dire warning to the federal government to stop...
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Issue #2143
Freedom Ride at 60
Starting on 12 February 1965, the Freedom Ride was a 15-day bus ride through regional New South Wales aimed to expose the racism experienced by...
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Issue #2141
Rally for public housing
On Saturday March 22 a rally was staged as part of the campaign to protest the NSW government’s lack of concern for low-income housing. Protesters...
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Issue #2189
No apology for oppressive Minns law
New South Wales premier Chris Minns’ blanket ban on street protests was struck down by the NSW Supreme Court on 16 April 2026. That ban...
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Issue #2095
EDITORIAL
New South Wales has handed down budget cuts to public education. The teachers of that state aren’t happy about it. Here’s why all of us...
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Issue #2199
NSW starts youth fraction
On the 11 July, the inaugural meeting of the NSW Youth Fraction of the Communist Party of Australia was held, formalising the establishment of a...
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Issue #2126
Woolies’ warehouse workers commence indefinite strike
On Thursday 21 November members of the United Workers’ Union (UWU) at four Woolworths distribution centres commenced an indefinite strike against their employer. Workers at...
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Issue #2117
EDITORIAL
That’s one of the slogans held up at a recent nurses and midwives’ demo. Nurses have had enough in NSW. They’re out on strike for...
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Issue #2199
NSW unions urge labour hire crackdown
A new McKell Institute report outlines how dozens of labour hire operators banned in other states have been drawn to NSW which has no licensing...
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