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Forestry fined $60,000 for failing to fix water pollution in Mogo State Forest
The NSW Forestry Corporation has been issued two new fines, totalling $60,000, by the Environment Protection Authority for failing to comply with a clean-up notice in Mogo State Forest. The EPA has charged that the Forestry Corporation did not construct creek crossings in compliance with best practice and that an...
People power cracks through protest restrictions
Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon has issued a 14-day extension of the Public Assembly Restriction Declaration (PARD) but committed to ensuring Invasion Day rallies on 26 January can proceed. Greens MP Sue Higginson had written to the Police Commissioner urging him to facilitate a peaceful march through central Sydney on 26...
Forestry fails to find 98 out of 102 threatened species habitat trees in Glenbog State Forest
The NSW Forestry Corporation has already started cutting down trees with heavy logging machinery in the Glenbog State Forest despite missing 98 of the 102 recorded den trees in the planned logging areas. The additional 98 den trees are recorded in an ecological report prepared by the community that includes...
Gun reforms made stronger with Greens amendments, draconian anti-protest laws to be challenged in Court
The Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 has passed the NSW Upper House in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Only one amendment was supported, a Greens amendment precluding the Commissioner from permitting any firearm permit to a person who has ever been investigated: for terrorism offences for association...
Government announces forward steps on gun reform and backward steps on protest
The Minns Labor Government has announced details on proposed reforms to curb gun violence and to prohibit peaceful assemblies in NSW. Sue Higginson, NSW Greens MP and Spokesperson for Justice, said: “Along with so many right now, I welcome with relief the Government’s announcement on nation-leading limits on gun ownership...
Crackdowns on civil liberties are a step in the wrong direction
The NSW Greens have grave concerns about proposed new laws to allow police to refuse all peaceful assemblies during undefined periods of terrorism designations. Greens MP and Spokesperson for Justice Sue Higginson said, “In the aftermath of the horrific antisemitic Bondi Beach mass shooting, Australians have been called upon to...
Greens back Gun Safety Alliance Plan in NSW Parliament
The NSW Parliament will be recalled on Monday 22 December in the afternoon and Tuesday 23 December, the only items of business will be a condolence motion and legislation arising from the Bondi incident. It is understood this includes stronger gun laws that will set the pace for national reform...
Time for new gun laws to limit gun numbers and keep Australians safe
As the nation reels from the horror of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach, parliaments state and federal must act to stop high powered firearms proliferating in our suburbs and towns.Decisive national action delivered world leading gun control after the Port Arthur Tragedy, but in the decades since gun numbers...
NSW Net Zero Commission report finds new coal will be contrary to law
A landmark new report from NSW’s independent Net Zero Commission “Coal Mining Emissions Spotlight Report” has found “Continued extensions or expansions to coal mining in NSW are not consistent with the emissions reduction targets in the Climate Change Act or the Paris Agreement temperature goals it gives effect to.” The...
Police must not reject Coroner’s calls to save lives by curbing high-speed chases as 21-year-old woman critically injured
Labor Police Minister Yasmin Catley and Premier Chris Minns are under pressure to intervene as the NSW Police shun recommendations from the Deputy Coroner of NSW to reduce the number of dangerous high-speed police pursuits, which have risen sharply in recent years. Police have just declared a critical incident after...