Sydney

In short:

The NSW Liberals has backed down on legal threats over last week's council nominations blunder.

Close to 140 candidates will not be on the ballot for next month's local government elections.

The party admitted fault last week and sacked state director Richard Shields.

The NSW Liberals’ local government campaign is in complete disarray after the party missed the deadline to nominate candidates in several council areas, including Canterbury-Bankstown, Shoalhaven and Wollongong.

Canonical URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-libs-in-chaos-as-party-fails-to-nominate-council-candidates-20240814-p5k2f4.html

• In short: Scaffolding has fallen from a construction site onto a Sydney CBD street.
• A van was hit by the materials but a man inside the vehicle was not injured.
• What's next? Police are investigating the cause of the incident.

Unfortunately the guides I could find for Dixon Street (Chinatown) were ten years old and the places no longer exist, but I've heard there's a place somewhere upstairs in Dixon House Food Court with huge plates for average prices.

Outside of this and memories of the Town Hall classic 'Big Bite', I wouldn't know where to start.

I'm doing a big lap of Australia.

We spent some time in and around Sydney recently and we were shocked, and appalled at the state of the roads.

After a few days in, we started counting potholes that were big enough to HAVE to avoid, and at over 40 on one road, gave up counting.

I honestly have never seen worse roads in my life.

Km after km of bumpy, holey, accidents waiting to happen.

The worst roads in the country. Totally shameful in a country like Australia.

So the question is, how did it come to this?

I know the last state leader, Gladys, was done for corruption.

I've followed friendly Geordies and the mafia like corruption of Barilaro is blatantly obvious.

Is it "leaders" being corrupt, or something other issue.

I'm not from NSW, so am interested to know.

Brisbane for example, was woefully lacking in infrastructure, so they had to play catch up on their roads, and over 20 or so years have caught up. The roads were never a death trap like Sydney's though.

Any thoughts?

The Sydney Metro line between Chatswood and Sydenham will not open on Sunday.

It has been delayed to an unknown date due to rail safety regulator approvals.

Twins in a pram rolled onto the track at Carlton.

Terrible.

4th of August according to the SMH article.

Missed this news yesterday. I guess “August” narrows it down from “mid-2024” although that’s basically end of mid year. I’m expecting late August.

Internet Archive link.

The City of Sydney council will consider scrapping its contracts with companies linked to Israel, including a printing agreement with Hewlett Packard, after Lord Mayor Clover Moore supported a renewed push from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.

Moore and her independent team backed a Greens motion on Monday night calling for the state’s wealthiest council to audit divestments that had or could be made to ensure it did not invest in or profit from human rights violations, “including the illegal occupation of the settlements in Palestinian territories, and the supply of weapons”.