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$29.7 billion per year by 2030: Confusion, overlaps and gaps in NSW invasive species plan

9 September, 2024 - The cost of failing to effectively manage invasive species in NSW could be blown out by 15 times in the next 6 years unless major reforms ar...

NSW Labor abandons Closing the Gap targets as First Nations Remand numbers soar

6 September, 2024 - During Budget Estimates it was revealed that the rates of First Nations children and young people on remand in the 12 months since June 2023...

Attorney General falls on his own knife laws in estimates

4 September, 2024 - The NSW Attorney General has been blasted by crossbench and opposition MPs in Budget Estimates this morning in a fiery exchange that exposed...

NSW government responds to Mental Health Inquiry

4 September, 2024 - The NSW government will fail to deliver meaningful change in response to the Parliamentary Inquiry into community and outpatient mental heal...

Minister puts child protection profiteers on notice

3 September, 2024 - Reforms announced by Minister for Families and Communities Kate Washington represent bold first steps toward a child protection system that ...

Forests forgotten, Minister unaware of logging influence

30 August, 2024 - Questions from the Greens in Budget Estimates have revealed that the Minister for the Environment was unaware of the details for the newly ann...

Forest Alliance: Exit native forest logging

23 August, 2024 - The peak body for NSW native forests has called for Premier Chris Minns to consult with them on a clear strategy to exit native forest lo...

Greens-led inquiry demands overhaul of NSW’s education system riddled with ableism and discrimination

22 August, 2024 - A landmark parliamentary inquiry chaired by Greens MP Abigail Boyd has today handed down its report into the experiences of children and young...

Shooting of horses in Kosciuszko legal: Supreme Court

21 August, 2024 - The Supreme court has dismissed an attempt to halt aerial shooting of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park and ordered that the Snowy ...

Harmful products spread with full knowledge of former Liberal Government

20 August, 2024 - Former Cabinet Minister Matt Kean knew that contaminated recycled waste products were being distributed across the environment and communities...

Inquest finds death of First Nations man ‘preventable’ as Doctor is referred for investigation

20 August, 2024 - The findings from the Inquiry into the death of First Nations man Ricky “Dougie” Hampson Junior were released this week. Hampson died in 2021 ...

Court rules that restorative justice demands community participation in Forestry crimes

19 August, 2024 - The Bellingen Environment Centre (BEC) will be allowed to give advice to the Land and Environment Court of NSW during the sentence hearing of ...

NSW Police problems are stiffer than Gin

15 August, 2024 - This afternoon, Rod Roberts, former One Nation Party MP brought a Matter of Public Importance in the NSW Upper House of Parliament to launch a...

Threatened species left behind by funding reductions & mismanagement - NSW Auditor General

15 August, 2024 - The NSW Auditor General has today tabled a performance audit into the Government’s management of threatened species and ecological communities...

Greens slam NSW Labor’s broken promise to create an independent office for animal welfare

14 August, 2024 - Today the NSW Labor Government has confirmed their plans for an independent office of animal welfare — except that it will not be independent,...