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Survivors on long, slow road

AS THE highway descends from the pine and snow-clad mountains above Sendai, the signs of catastrophe grow clearer.

Judge lashes Kelly over Barangaroo law

THE Land and Environment Court has delivered a highly critical assessment of the decision by the Planning Minister to approve the car park excavation at Barangaroo and said that he had failed to comply with the planning laws on remediation.

Minister ran down clock for approvals

JUST hours before the NSW government moved into caretaker mode last week, the Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, approved four separate developments at Barangaroo, dealing another blow to critics attempting to stall the project.

Critics fear poisons leaking to harbour

SECTIONS of the Barangaroo site are heavily contaminated but the area approved for a massive underground car park contained lower-grade contaminants similar to those previously found at King Street Wharf, Lend Lease says.

Kelly defied advice on Barangaroo exemption

THE Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, overturned specific instructions from the head of his department this week when he ordered the development at Barangaroo be exempt from planning laws on contamination.

Into oblivion with pens raised

YOU'RE a minister in a government facing annihilation at the coming election. As things look now, your party may be out of power for two, three - even four terms. On your desk a pile of directives awaits your signature, some of them months old. Some are embarrassing but necessary, awaiting a politically convenient time. Others are glad-handing gestures of the kind all governments make to shore up support. Still others are genuine achievements to which your party will be able to point in opposition, but which cost too much when budgets are tight. The election writs are about to be issued, ending your time in office. What do you do?

Go-ahead for Barangaroo

EXCAVATION for a massive underground car park on polluted land at Barangaroo could begin next week after the government made it the only project in NSW exempt from planning laws on contamination.

Twisted Tiffany appeals

Many collectors are now interested in art glass, especially from the postwar period.

Love of pot lands grower in jail

A LOVE affair between a computer scientist and marijuana to enhance his performance as a male escort has ended in heartbreak and a six-year prison term for drug offences.