Northern Beaches Hospital: March 2025
March 28, 2025
Yesterday was a very moving day in the New South Wales Parliament. I was pleased to stand with the Premier and the Minister for Health as they announced the Health Services Amendment (PPP Prohibition) Bill 2025. But the most important people at the press...
Read MoreQuestion Time - Bus Services
March 18, 2025
My question is directed to the Premier. Last‑minute cancelled bus services, long queues, overcrowding and buses going past full—this is the frustrating daily reality for thousands of northern beaches commuters right now and today is no different. What is the New South Wales Government...
Read MoreInsurance and Natural Disasters
February 20, 2025
I emphasise again the need to not put new homes in areas with high bushfire risk. We need robust New South Wales Government policies that deliver strategic planning decisions that prepare us for the future and that do not make the problem worse.
Read MorePatyegarang Rezoning Proposal
February 13, 2025
The recent Los Angeles wildfires were shocking in their scale and ferocity. More than 10,000 homes were destroyed, with losses estimated at over US$250 billion. In an interview on the ABC's 7.30, fire expert Professor Char Miller, from Pomona College in California, explained that building...
Read MoreSecond Reading Debate - Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Offsets Scheme) Bill 2024
November 28, 2024
Don Watson, who was Paul Keating's speechwriter among other things, writes evocatively in his bookThe Bush about his family's history as colonisers in the Strzelecki Ranges in Gippsland, Victoria. His ancestors, just a few generations ago, were part of the rapid and comprehensive transformation...
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