MEDIA RELEASES
Young Newcastle Person of the year challenges Government’s anti-protest moves in Supreme Court
The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port has been under sustained attack by the NSW Government. 2020 Newcastle Young Citizen, Alexa Stuart, is today taking the NSW Minns Labor Government to the Supreme Court in a bid to find their 97 hour exclusion order for the Hunter River...
Full Blockade ahead: Sweeping Marine Exclusion Zone deemed invalid in Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court has ruled that a Marine Exclusion Zone made under the Marine Safety Act at Newcastle Port from 5 pm this afternoon is invalid. Justice McNaughton found the notice invalid because exclusion zones were not empowered to prevent special events. The ruling is a welcome relief for the...
NSW Crossbench Unite to End Native Forest Logging
The Minns Labor Government has received a letter from 5 key independent members of the NSW Parliament calling for an immediate halt to logging in the promised Great Koala National Park, and they have committed to exiting native forest logging in NSW entirely. The cross bench members in the Upper...
Court Rules in favour of Police over Newcastle Climate Protest
Today the NSW Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the NSW Police Commissioner against grassroots climate action group Rising Tide in the Police attempt to prohibit “The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port”. Following two full days of hearings, Justice Fagan has ruled both prohibition orders sought...
No Positive Plan for Nature - NSW Extinction Crisis will continue under Labor
The Government has finally released its long awaited and highly anticipated response to the Ken Henry Review - the five year statutory review into the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, tabled in August 2023. The Henry Review final report provided damning insight into how current policy settings are accelerating species...
Damning interim-report into out-of-home care says nothing we didn’t already know
A damning interim-report from the Advocate for Children and Young People has laid bare - yet again - the extraordinary failures of the out-of-home care system in New South Wales.
Special delivery of Deputy State Coroner’s chilling findings to Minister for Police sound alarm bell for dire state of policing failure
5 April 2024 - This week the Coroners Court of New South Wales released its findings from the inquest into the death of Todd Mckenzie. Mr McKenzie was shot three times by police and died in his Taree home after experiencing a schizophrenic episode. The findings of the coronial report were...
NRL mentors announced in Government's “Project Pathfinder” PR stunt will not help divert kids from crime in regional areas
4 April 2024 - A new pilot program between the NSW Police Force and the National Ruby League (NRL) is being rolled out in Moree to tackle youth crime. The project was announced just weeks after the Minns Government’s controversial youth bail laws were passed in Parliament, making it harder for...
Community resistance to zombie development on hair trigger at Wallum
4 April 2024 - Hundreds of community members have descended at a zombie development site in the Northern Rivers this morning after reports that earth moving equipment was inbound to the site known as Wallum in Brunswick Heads. Despite thousands of people contacting the NSW Minister for Planning and the Federal...
Protest suppression laws review must involve public consultation
4 April 2024 - Greens MP and spokesperson for justice Sue Higginson said “These laws were and still are an attack on democracy and were supported by both Liberals and Labor to function as a direct suppression on the implied right to political expression in NSW,”