Fifteen years of Labor in NSW set in motion changes that severely and negatively affected the well-being of our community. Unfortunately these regressive policies are being pursued even more aggressively by the Barry O’Farrell Coalition government.
Labor gave the Coalition the framework for changing planning laws to take away community say in planning decisions, commenced the privatisation of electricity assets and sale of public housing, and approved hundreds of coal seam gas mining licenses including at St Peters in the heart of Heffron.
Successive bad decisions on these issues by Premiers Carr, Iemma, Rees and Keneally have made it easy for the Coalition to continue on the same path. Amidst this baton passing, the Greens have been the only political voice standing up for the rights of the people of NSW.
The Greens and I have been campaigning with our communities against coal seam gas mining to stop an industry that is not sustainable and has massive negative impacts on our scarce water resources and productive land.
Green Left Weekly
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