Revealed: recent NSW policy was ‘no policy’ IGNORING THE SOUR faces and disapproving words of the NSW Liberal Premier, and the federal Liberal Minister for Education, some 2,300 regional students together with family members and supporters marched in central Canberra last Friday. One teenager after another gave a rousing speech about
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NSW water policy giveaway promises more ecological disaster
Floodplain water for favoured irrigators THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE has coordinated an open letter (PDF version) to NSW Water Minister Niall Blair (National Party) urging him to halt a controversial policy change from his department that assigns rights to divert huge volumes of water in the northern Murray-Darling Basin under a process
Game-changing renewables industry PLUS jobs for NSW
Bryce Wilson Labor candidate for Monaro post 28 February: NSW Labor is unveiling much-needed and change-oriented policy promises for all sectors from health and education to energy and transport and country care. A massive shift on the environmental front — that affects everyone — is Labor’s promised transition to a renewables-based
NSW Nationals plan: scrap a National Park
IN A SHAMEFUL first, the NSW Government is moving to scrap a national park. The Nationals MP for Murray, Austin Evans, has given notice of a new bill in the Legislative Assembly. Mr Evans wants to ‘de-gazette’ the Murray Valley National Park and open up the globally significant river red gum forests
NSW Native Forests: more logging, conservation downgraded
Liberal National Coalition’s war on native species extends to new forest rules. LATER THIS YEAR the NSW Liberal-National Government will ramp up logging and exploitation under proposed changes to the rules governing logging and exploitation of NSW State forests. The proposals will revise NSW logging laws and clearly value timber over
Greyhound racing: NSW Coalition latest bid for votes?
IN ANOTHER POLICY backflip, the NSW Liberal-National government is tossing $500,000 of public funding towards a major greyhound racing event dubbed the ‘Million Dollar Chase’. While political backflips by the NSW government have become commonplace in the run up to the March 2019 state election, this latest announcement is surely among