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.
As the NSW political scene swings its focus to next March's election, seasoned MPs from both sides head for the exit as both major parties deal with the spectre of an ascendant One Nation.
Major changes to train timetables in Sydney and the Illawarra have been scrapped less than a month before they were due to begin after backlash from commuters.
In the video clips, police can be seen grabbing protesters by the head or neck at a rally against the Israeli president in Sydney.
His daughter, Thea Burke, said Peter Manning died on Monday morning at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital after an illness.
The loved ones of Constable Mia Lay gathered at the crash scene in Redfern where she was killed on Friday, with her father planting bright yellow flowers.
Family-run firearms businesses say they are copping the brunt of the Minns government's post-Bondi gun laws, with some forced to sell their homes and dip into their retirement nest eggs.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The rooftops of the International Convention Centre Sydney will be home to a solar farm that is being heralded as the largest in any city centre in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Minns government will provide a drug checking service at up to 15 music festivals per year in the state, beginning in October.
One Nation NSW leader Mike Newman was the state's senior trade and investment commissioner in Tokyo from 2022 to 2024.
The exact concentration of cannabis in a driver's saliva that produces a positive drug test has long been guarded closely by New South Wales Police.
More than 60 families rallied in Sydney's eastern suburbs to keep the doors of a local childcare centre open.
New South Wales will become the first state to begin a gun buyback scheme promised in the wake of the Bondi massacre, with shooters to be compensated up to $10,000 per firearm.
Club-goers were allegedly pushed against walls and forced to strip in public as police led sniffer dogs through venues on and near Oxford Street on June 13, in the middle of Pride Month.
NSW Premier Chris Minns tells a conference of the party faithful that the state's next set of trains will be manufactured "where the original fleet was built".
Veteran NSW Liberal Damien Tudehope has quit the frontbench after being called as a witness in a looming corruption watchdog probe.
Topic: State and Territory Government
The head of the body governing the state's catholic schools will stand aside after he was named in a corruption probe investigating donations to the NSW Liberal Party.
New South Wales opposition leader Kellie Sloane has channelled the American rapper Eminem in a budget reply that promised businesses a tax cut and Sydneysiders a new metro line.
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has tempered expectations of a return to surplus ahead of Tuesday's budget. Here's what has been promised so far.
Allegations of police aggression and intimidation during a drug operation at LGBTQIA+ venues across Sydney's Oxford Street will be considered by the law enforcement watchdog.
Interest-free loans and cash subsidies are being offered by the New South Wales government to encourage the uptake of renewable energy measures like solar panels and household batteries.
The Labor government plans to introduce a legal limit on the concentration of THC a driver can have in their system if they have a prescription.
Government frontbenchers John Graham and Penny Sharpe have been suspended from the upper house over failing to produce documents demanded by the opposition.
Topic: State and Territory Parliament
The company behind the drone shows at Sydney's Vivid festival said spectators were not at risk when almost 90 devices fell from the sky during a display on Monday night.
For-profit providers have been accused of putting growth and revenue ahead of quality care in a report into childcare safety failures.
Contempt proceedings have been launched against Mark Latham after he attacked a tribunal that found he unlawfully vilified and sexually harassed another state MP.
