Alexander Lewis is a multi-platform journalist reporting for ABC News in Sydney. He began his career at the Seven Network and worked as a TV reporter in Queensland, with stints in Mackay, on the Gold Coast, and in Brisbane. Since joining the ABC in 2022, Alexander has covered several inquiries including the Robodebt Royal Commission. He was the NSW newsroom's lead TV reporter for Sydney WorldPride.
One of Australia's greatest judges, Sir Anthony Mason, is being remembered as an "activist judge", an unlikely figure in the Gough Whitlam dismissal and for "radical" judgements that changed the nation.
Damning testimony will not land former Robodebt bureaucrats inside a courtroom, because the law empowering Australia's corruption watchdog to penetrate the right to silence is built with a shield.
James O'Brien from Honeywell, which is subcontracted to manage facilities at Newcastle's Calvary Mater Hospital, failed to turn up to an inquiry.
Police recorded 197 incidents of LGBTQIA+ hate-related violence and charged 103 people over the attacks since 2023.
The New South Wales premier has flagged harsher punishments and new criminal offences in response to gay and bisexual teens being lured online and bashed on camera.
Modelling by consulting firm EY Australia shows Australian exporters would be owed more than $1.4 billion in refunds collectively if the US tariffs are struck down.
Australian exporters to the US could be set for a windfall if some of the Trump administration's trade tariffs are ruled unlawful.
By expanding police powers and allowing bans on authorised public assemblies the Minns government has made restricting protest a defining feature of its first term.
The leader of the NSW opposition says the trait behind Premier Chris Minns's popularity is also his greatest weakness, declaring the Coalition is "absolutely in the game" to win next year's state election.
The former prime minister said it should not be for judges to decide when a political protest was justified, which are remarks NSW's top judge called "regrettable".
An inquiry has advised the NSW government to consider banning the phrase "globalise the intifada", despite most public submissions opposing the move and warnings that it may be unconstitutional.
Lawyers, human rights advocates and civil libertarians are urging the NSW Police Commissioner not to extend a ban on authorised public assemblies as January 26 approaches.
In December, the president of the legislative council said he would not seek to overturn a finding that laws allowing no-shows to be arrested were invalid, but this week he reversed course.
The Bondi Beach footbridge that some locals want removed following last month's terror attack was already going to need replacement for structural reasons.
Premier Chris Minns did not dispute a report that 200 people attended a fundraiser dinner, but could not recall how an event of that size raised only about $6,000.
The opposition leader says she does not consider the gender breakdown of her shadow ministry, which has 16 men and 10 women.
The president of the NSW Legislative Council says he will not try to overturn a decision to strike down laws that purportedly allowed witnesses to be arrested for failing to appear.
A document by the Jewish Community Security Group NSW raised the alarm about the threat of Islamic extremism and Jihadist-inspired lone-actor attacks.
As Sydneysiders paid their respects to the Bondi terror victims, one moment captured the contrast between two Labor leaders and their perceived responses to antisemitism.
Coal mining extensions and expansions will continue, the New South Wales premier says, despite a government-appointed agency finding further approvals were not consistent with emissions targets.
Drivers have been stuck in Sydney's M4 tunnel for several hours over fears part of its concrete roofing could tumble onto traffic.
The Minns government has been unable to break an impasse after six months of trying to pass the legislation.
A neo-Nazi rally outside the NSW parliament on Saturday morning was deemed "authorised" because police had chosen not to oppose the public assembly.
Medical staff at Northern Beaches Hospital say a potential loss of private beds could mean less expertise, fewer services and more travel for patients.
The government says it was "investigating" a medical defence for drivers prescribed cannabis but ruled out the use of sniffer dogs and strip searches for suspected drug possession at music festivals in its response to last year's drug summit.