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Minns Labor doesn’t care about female firefighters

Female firefighters are $25 million worse off under the Minns Labor Government with dedicated funding to upgrade women’s amenities cut from this year’s budget. The Nationals in Government committed $50 million over ten years to support female firefighters, including new female change rooms and bathrooms, and encourage women to join Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW)…

No more excuses. No more delay – Kevin Hogan

Four years after we suffered Australia’s biggest natural disaster, the CSIRO report has been released. It details how flood mitigation could make our communities safer. It models solutions such as dry holding ponds and opening up Boundary Creek to the ocean. The CSIRO report says the 2022 flood would have been over 2m lower with…

“Regional communities are entitled to ask whether the Minns Labor Government genuinely cares”

The Minns Labor Government has neglected the state’s primary funding program for town water infrastructure for the fourth consecutive year, despite NSW facing a multi-billion-dollar backlog in critical projects. The Safe and Secure Water Program was established by the former Nationals Government to support the design and construction of essential capital works projects that ensure…

“It is time to put an end to the lines on a map that are tormenting people’s lives” – Nationals to scrap 500kv transmission lines

An elected Nationals Government will scrap the Minns Labor Government’s proposed construction of 500kv transmission lines from Walcha to Bayswater. The Nationals will cap the over-budget and delayed New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) at its current level and prioritise upgrades to existing infrastructure if necessary. Nationals Member for Upper Hunter Dave Layzell said the…

Labor’s budget confirms NSW is going backwards

The NSW Nationals have slammed the Minns Labor Government’s Budget, saying it confirms that NSW is going backwards and Labor has no plan to grow the economy, support families or back business and jobs. Labor’s fourth Budget reveals: • NSW is entering a per capita recession, with economic growth forecast at 1% while population increase…

Four Corners one-sided on timber

Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Darren Chester has slammed the ABC for its ‘one-sided coverage’ of the Australian timber industry. Mr Chester said the Four Corners program, which aired on Monday night, was another example of biased reporting focused on environmental activism. “From the first sentence of the program, it was obvious the…