Opposition’s Long Bay idea not the negative gear portrayed by Labor

October 28, 2026 — 4:01pm

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The unravelling housing crisis confronting Sydney makes the proposal by NSW Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane to shut Long Bay prison and convert the prime government-owned coastal location into 12,000 new homes worth considering.

The Coalition looked at the site a decade ago when the then corrections minister David Elliott said that “prisoners should not have access to such prime Sydney real estate at the expense of taxpayers” and advocated the sale of the jail for housing.

His Coalition government failed to act. But 13 months ago, the opposition revisited the sale, and Sloane has relaunched the idea with the proposal to establish a Long Bay Delivery Authority to relocate........

© The Sydney Morning Herald