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Max Maddison

Max Maddison

Max Maddison is a state political reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Drone footage taken of a shark off Coogee Beach in Sydney on Saturday.

How an AI-powered early shark warning system could protect Sydney beaches

An alert system using autonomous drones to detect sharks could be in place by summer, scientists say.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Max Maddison

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Nurse Talei Williams at RPA.

‘I don’t earn enough to rent anything’: How Sydney’s grand housing vision was whittled away

Nurse Talei Williams should be benefiting from affordable housing. Instead, a 90-minute commute is her only option.

  • Max Maddison
Former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will face prosecution over allegations they circumvented donation laws in Chris Minn’s seat of Kohgarah a decade ago

Two Labor figures face charges over alleged illegal donations to premier

Former MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee will both face prosecution over allegations they were involved in a scheme to circumvent NSW donor laws in Premier Chris Minns’s electorate 11 years ago.

  • Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
The unfinished building in Burwood.

‘Disgusting conditions’: Workers allegedly living on luxury Burwood high-rise site

“No one brings their underpants on site and washes them at work,” a CFMEU official said in a video walk-through of the Victoria Place development.

  • Max Maddison
Cannabis plants at a Brisbane facility.

‘Reckless policy’: NRMA and Coalition slam medicinal cannabis driving reform

“A child injured or killed as a result of the actions of a drug driver does not get three chances,” NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane says.

  • Max Maddison
Drivers with lawful cannabis prescriptions will be offered a medical defence and subjected to a three-strike impairment test under major roadside safety reforms in NSW.

Drivers using medicinal cannabis to get legal defence under historic NSW road reforms

Prescription holders who test positive to THC will still be barred for driving for 24 hours under the new three-strike system.

  • Max Maddison
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An audit of the Football in Schools program found Macarthur FC and Western Sydney Wanderers were partially non-compliant with the funding deed.

A-League clubs slammed over taxpayer-funded $14.5m Football in Schools scheme

A damning external investigation has revealed major compliance failures, unverified attendance figures, and unjustified expenses within the Western Sydney Wanderers and Macarthur Bulls.

  • Max Maddison
Senator Jess Collins (right) and her husband Ben Collins (left).

Inside the complaints made against a Liberal senator’s husband

Two complaints seen by CBD claimed the behaviour of Ben Collins, dating back to November 2023, was “intimidating” and “aggressive”.

  • Max Maddison, John Buckley and Fiona Byrne
Parramatta’s CBD will be excluded from the HDA pathway.

‘Killing off the benefits’: Three key parts of Sydney cut out of housing fast-track

A landmark 12-month review of the controversial Housing Delivery Authority will quarantine key CBD commercial zones and tighten permanent affordable housing requirements.

  • Max Maddison
Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns.

Best frenemies: Inside the frosty relationship between the PM and the premier

There are two flashpoints that raised tensions between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns.

  • Max Maddison and Paul Sakkal