Water quality testing saved – for now Northern Beaches Council is relieved with the announcement...
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Mosman Council has endorsed a high-profile fundraising gala dinner to help secure the financial future of Mosman Art Gallery. The Gallery is faced with reduced government funding as council failed to secure four-year multi-year funding from Create NSW and hopes the...
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Independent Pittwater MP Jacqui Scruby has voiced in-principle support for new legislation targeting illegal vape and tobacco sales in NSW. While the Opposition’s Bill has yet to be released, Ms Scruby said she supports the intent, citing the need for...
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Independent is Bradfield’s first female MP After waiting exactly one month to find out if she was elected, Nicolette Boele is breathing a sigh of relief. In what was one of the closest Federal election results in history, Ms Boele won...
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Regan’s bill to become law A bill by Wakehurst MP Michael Regan to minimise the profits of Healthscope when it hands back the public part of Northern Beaches Hospital (NBH) has been passed in both houses of NSW Parliament. The independent introduced...
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Independent MPs for Pittwater and Wakehurst, Jacqui Scruby and Michael Regan, have secured $6.7 million in the 2025/26 NSW Budget for a synthetic athletics track at the Sydney Academy of Sport in Narrabeen, in addition to the $1.9 million insurance...
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Independent Pittwater MP Jacqui Scruby has delivered on a key election promise, with the NSW Government confirming that $250 million in funding has been allocated for Mona Vale Road West Upgrade in the 2025/6 NSW Budget and giving a green...
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Northern Beaches Council will make a submission to the recently launched Parliamentary Inquiry into illegal tobacco trade in NSW. Council will request changes to the Standard Instrument Local Environment Plan to allow councils to stop tobacco shops from opening near...
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One month after the Federal Election, Independent Nicolette Boele has ‘provisionally’ won the seat of Bradfield, beating main rival Liberal Gisele Kapterian by just 26 votes. In the original count, after preferences were distributed, the candidates were separated by just eight...
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Scruby calls hike ‘blow’ to residents The average Beaches ratepayer will soon be paying $42 more per quarter, or $168 per year, after rates regulator IPART approved a permanent 25.2% rate hike to start in July. IPART did not give council the...