March 25, 2025

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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...

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.

February 19, 2025

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...

February 12, 2025

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...

November 21, 2024

I could not miss this opportunity to spread some Christmas cheer and thanks. As a relatively new member, I am so impressed by the dynamic and professional staff who keep this old institution running like a well-oiled machine, day in and day out. Independent...

October 24, 2024

The NSW Bus Industry Taskforce final report was evocatively titledThe Forgotten Mode: a call to action for buses. On the northern beaches, buses are not only the forgotten mode but indeed the only mode. We do not have a train line, a light rail...