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Minns Menindee Visit - Murray Darling Basin a top priority
March 29, 2023
29 March 2023 The Nature Conservation Council has applauded Premier Chris Minns’s decision to visit Menindee on his first day as Premier of New South Wales. Premier Minns will travel to the far west of the state to see first hand the...
Read MorePeabody Mine Threatening Sydney’s Drinking Water: Report
March 22, 2023
The New South Wales Government must immediately halt operations at Peabody Energy’s Metropolitan Coal Mine in the Royal National Park near Helensburgh, following a new report which has uncovered the discharge of contaminated metals into Worona Reservoir which supplies drinking water to Sydney and...
Read MoreNSW Online Water Forum
March 14, 2023
14 March 2023 With less than a fortnight to go until the state election, leading water experts, traditional owners, MPs and candidates will take part in this evening’s NSW Online Water Forum to discuss the future of the Murray Darling Basin Plan. After years...
Read MoreNational Park additions welcome – but where are the koalas meant to live?
February 28, 2023
New South Wales still has a long way to go when it comes to preserving critical koala habitat, despite the announcement of new national parks in the east and west of the state. While the acquisitions will be a great step toward Australia's commitment...
Read MoreWater purchases key to delivering Murray Darling Basin Plan promises
February 24, 2023
With the deadline of June 2024 fast approaching, environment groups encourage Minister Plibersek to stand up to NSW and Victoria by purchasing water as the only cost-effective, practical way to return water to rivers. Ahead of a meeting of Murray-Darling Basin water ministers today,...
Read MoreNSW still holding the Murray Darling Basin Plan back
February 14, 2023
Media Release February 14, 2023 The Murray Darling Basin Authority has released a six-monthly report card on the progress of the Murray Darling Basin Plan, highlighting yet again that when it comes to the Basin Plan, NSW continues to have the hand brake on....
Read MorePerrottet Government signs death warrant for inland rivers
February 03, 2023
Media Release 3 February 2023 The controversial regulation to legalise the diversion of billions of litres of water from NSW’s inland rivers with floodplain harvesting levees has been gazetted today. These are essentially the same regulations that have been previously disallowed by the Upper...
Read MoreCOALITION PAYING LIP SERVICE TO KOALAS AND OTHER THREATENED SPECIES
February 03, 2023
This week’s paltry funding announcements by the Perrottet Government will do little to help save koalas and other threatened species from extinction. Voters should not be conned by the few million dollars allocated to a handful of environmental research projects. Nature Conservation Council Chief...
Read MorePolling shows majority support in New South Wales for an end to native forest logging.
January 25, 2023
Nature Conservation Council NSW, the state’s biggest environment group, has unveiled polling which shows 54% of people in New South Wales oppose logging in state forests. The release coincides with a visit by NCC Chief Executive Jacqui Mumford to the Bulga blockade on the...
Read MoreMPs and state election candidates see forest logging first hand
January 20, 2023
Key independent MPs and candidates took to NSW State Forests today to shine a light on the need for forest protection ahead of the upcoming New South Wales election.
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