With all that's happening with McPhillamys at the moment, here is an important reminder that Labor and the Coalition voted to remove substantial evidence and committee comment from the 2023 heavy metals mining inquiry report, including… 1/8 The results of a koala survey undertaken near the Bowdens mine site which found significant koala activity within the proposed operational areas of the mine site and less in the proposed biodiversity offset areas. 2/8

Today the NSW Upper House will debate disallowing floodplain harvesting regulations for a 4th time. If you're still in doubt about whether the Government's FPH rules will protect the environment, here are some emails from the latest documents received by the house. #nswpol The Environment Minister @James_HGriffin has called the rules a ‘commitment to a good environmental outcome. Here his office admits that the rules will have little impact on FPH take and have been reduced as much as possible.

Just yesterday Brad Hazzard told me that no one had raised concerns with him that ICU capacity in NSW was at risk. How strange that I was getting pleas for help from doctors and nurses working on the frontline in our ICUs, but the Health Minister wasn’t? Thread. #nswpol #covidnsw ICUs in our hospitals at the epicentre of this outbreak like Westmead, Liverpool and Nepean are at breaking point. I’ve been told that one of the main issues is that there aren’t enough nurses to care for the number of Covid patients in ICU who need 1:1 care most of the time,