MEDIA RELEASES
Liberal MP sees no difference between protesters and January 26 neo-nazis in insulting Estimates spray
23 February 2024 - In a galling line of questioning on the fourth day of NSW Budget Estimates, Liberal MP Susan Carter suggested she saw no difference between the organised neo-Nazis who stormed Sydney trains in balaclavas on January 26 and a public assembly on the Opera House steps calling for...
Greens to chair inquiry into controversial top down planning reform
23 February 2024 - The NSW Parliament has today established an Inquiry into the highly controversial Transport-Oriented Development State Environment Planning Policy (TOD SEPP) as well as the diverse and well located homes program. These changes are part of a series of changes that the State Government is implementing in...
No State plan for emergency housing during disasters: Auditor General finds no systemic improvements since 2022 Northern Rivers floods
22 February 2024 - The NSW Auditor General has today released their Flood Housing Response report along with 7 recommendations to reduce catastrophic housing crises as a result of natural disasters. Among the findings was evidence that; there was no plan for temporary housing at the time of the 2022 floods,...
Lands Minister cannot say whether $11.5 billion of public land will be sold off or protected from corrupt processes
20 February 2024 - The NSW Lands Minister, Stephen Kamper, has ducked questions on the first day of NSW Budget Estimates about whether the sale of up to $11.5 billion in public land would be adequately protected from privatisation and corrupt processes.
Minister inundated, more than a thousand Save Wallum emails sent in 48 hours
16 February 2024 - The NSW Minister for Planning, Paul Scully, has been inundated with more than a thousand emails in the last 48 hours. Concerned residents of NSW are calling for him to exercise his explicit authority to refer the Wallum development at Brunswick Heads to the Federal Government a...
Contact tracing asbestos in mulch will fail without a moratorium on moving material
15 February 2024 - The newly announced Asbestos Taskforce from the NSW Government and Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and their contact tracing program will be overwhelmed by the continued movement of asbestos contaminated material across NSW unless a moratorium is instituted.
Demands for Greater transparency and investigations into asbestos crisis
13 February 2024 - Greens MP has today submitted questions through the Parliament and written to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) demanding more answers about the growing asbestos contamination crisis across Sydney. Discoveries of asbestos at the Rozelle Parklands, Campbelltown Hospital, Liverpool West Public School and Harmony Park in Surry Hills...
Asbestos found in more than 10% of all tested mulch in Sydney
12 February 2024 - The discovery of asbestos in mulch at Campbelltown Hospital and a Liverpool Public School is the latest evidence that contaminated materials are being moved around Sydney and NSW with no oversight.
Inspector tables damning report on Metropolitan Prison days after death in custody
10 February 2024 - The Inspector of Custodial Services’ most recent report has been tabled in parliament just days after a death by suspected hanging has occurred in Parklea correctional facility. The report, undertaken in 2022 at Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre cites unsafe conditions, obvious ligature points, routine strip searches...
Minns and Scully taking NSW down the road to Planning Road corruption and Ruin
9 February 2024 - Alistair Henskens has revealed last night, 8 February, that a senior bureaucrat in the NSW Department of Planning is under investigation for insider trading and that there has been a referral to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The Government is currently struggling to deliver their housing...