Metro axe hits traders, city square plan

THE cancellation of the CBD Metro has sunk the City of Sydney's plan to create a new square opposite Town Hall by 2015 and prompted scores of city business owners to demand compensation for losses caused by the botched rail plan.

A dream Labor speech from the vanquished

FIFTEEN words in we knew what sort of speech this would be. "Generations" is a great big Malcolm Turnbull word. Churchillian. "All of us here are accountable not just to our constituents but to the generations that will come after them."