NSW Premier Barry O鈥橣arrell has reneged on a pre-election promise to refuse access for hunters to NSW national parks, a move that will put parks users in danger and potentially set back feral animal eradication programs.
The Coalition government is pushing through changes to the NSW electricity sector, seeking to privatise state-owned generators. Without the numbers to push the privatisation bill through the upper house, O鈥橣arrell back-flipped and supported a bill by the Shooters and Fishers Party.
Shaun McDonald
Dressed mainly in black, with black flags and banners to show the death of democracy in Tasmania, 6000 people took to Launceston鈥檚 streets on May 14 to oppose Gunns鈥 proposed $2.3 billion pulp mill, to be built on the banks of the Tamar River.
鈥淲e have been betrayed by our members of parliament,鈥 ABC television personality Peter Cundell told a rally of more than 1500 people protesting against the proposed Gunns Ltd pulp mill on March 20.
鈥淭hey have betrayed the very people they are supposed to represent. This is only the beginning ... We are going to defeat this mill, make no mistake about it.鈥
With the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission's Interim Report tabled last month, it is now up to various state governments and the federal government to respond quickly to save lives when the next catastrophic fires happen.
In the last week of winter, something strange happened: bushfires raged across New South Wales, with major fires in the Shoalhaven and Eurobodalla in the south of the state.