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NSW budget: new infrastructure but a missed chance to fix stamp duty

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imageNSW Premier Mike Baird applauds Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian -- but has her first budget hit the mark?AAP Image/Paul Miller

The NSW government today handed down its first budget after the March state election, promising new infrastructure, jobs, housing developments and four more years of back-to-back budget surpluses.

The budget papers said the NSW...

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Why parole for Oscar Pistorius is perfectly legitimate

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imageOscar Pistorius' early release was a virtual certainty from the day he was sentenced.EPA/Herman Verwey

The decision to release South African athlete Oscar Pistorius on correctional supervision in August, having served just ten months of a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, was predictably met with media outrage. Many suggested that he was...

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