This Month
Mike Baird flags HammondCare exit
If Peter Dutton was hoping to recruit Mike Baird to run for the Liberals in a teal-held NSW seat, he had better get started now.
- Myriam Robin
September
- Exclusive
- NSW budget
NSW’s $108b TCorp faces shake-up under plan to slash debt
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will order a consolidation of six funds and stop borrowing billions of dollars to invest in financial markets.
- John Kehoe
August
The ABC’s star investigative reporter packs her things
Caro Meldrum-Hanna’s office at Four Corners has been cleaned out.
- Mark Di Stefano
July
- Exclusive
- Aged care
User pays, means testing more likely than a new aged care tax
A high-level taskforce charged with finding a long-term solution to aged care funding is leaning toward greater means testing and increased reliance on user pays.
- Phillip Coorey
April
Antipodes’ Jacob Mitchell sticks with big tech and AI
The CIO says artificial intelligence will give companies like Microsoft and Alphabet owner an important competitive edge.
- Joanne Tran
March
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Another election slide into bigger spending, debt and government
Australia’s post-2008 political slide continued in NSW on Saturday, without any sign of the microeconomic reform agenda that created the nation’s modern prosperity.
- The AFR View
Baird: Voters hate sell-offs, but they love the rewards
The former premier, who steered a NSW privatisation agenda, says political leaders should keep an open mind on asset recycling in the next term
- Samantha Hutchinson
December 2022
Former NSW premier Mike Baird new Cricket Australia chairman
Mr Baird will take over as the organisation’s new boss from February, with his predecessor Lachlan Henderson stepping down after moving back to Perth.
- Scott Bailey
September 2022
NAB fraud trial jury told of anonymous whistleblower letter
Former NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn didn’t believe an anonymous whistleblower letter accusing his trusted chief of staff of illegal financial activity, a jury has been told.
- Margaret Scheikowski
May 2022
Mike Baird to chair Future Generation Australia
The former premier has warned that ESG runs the risk of making responding to community need “head” rather than “heart-based”.
- Jemima Whyte
April 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
The missing middle in the Liberal campaign
The Liberals’ campaign is divided between those inner suburban seats under pressure from independents and Morrison’s preferred territory in outer suburban and regional seats. But without coming together, it’s going to be hard for the Coalition to win enough seats.
- Jennifer Hewett
February 2022
‘Time for action’ to lift aged care wages: Baird
Former NSW premier Mike Baird’s comments come as data shows more than a third of total virus-related deaths in aged care have happened in the first month of 2022.
- Finbar O'Mallon
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
The government falls back onto its thin khaki line
After decimating the institutions of care, government’s calls upon the ADF have morphed from helping in emergencies to providing logistics and daily care services.
- Laura Tingle
October 2021
- Analysis
- ICAC
Even Baird won’t defend Berejiklian over boyfriend
The former NSW premier decided he couldn’t back his friend, ally and successor at a corruption inquiry into her relationship with a disgraced MP.
- Aaron Patrick
Berejiklian should have disclosed secret Maguire relationship: Baird
Former NSW premier Mike Baird says he was ‘incredulous’ when he learned of Gladys Berejiklian’s secret relationship with disgraced MP Daryl Maguire.
- Updated
- Finbar O'Mallon
‘Surprised’: Maguire’s pet project got funding despite low priority
Senior NSW sport department bureaucrats could not understand how the then-secret lover of Gladys Berejiklian had secured funding for a gun club.
- Finbar O'Mallon
- Opinion
- Berejiklian inquiry
A jagged tear in the sterling reputation of ‘Saint Gladys’
Former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian will be interrogated by ICAC. It’s another example of the blurred line between the personal and public interest in politics.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
Good riddance to Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings
Shame is no deterrent to someone this desperate.
- Joe Aston
Former NSW premier Mike Baird to front anti-corruption watchdog
Former NSW premier Mike Baird will appear at the ICAC next week along with Jobs Minister and freshly minted Liberal deputy leader Stuart Ayres.
- Finbar O'Mallon
September 2021
Cricket Australia redefines ‘full support of the board’
Why did Cricket Australia’s board rush forward its AGM by a fortnight?
- Joe Aston
