Internal divisions between the premier and the treasurer have been revealed in parliament over the appointment of Paul Broad to the premier’s office.
The budget in June included not one cent for raising the Warragamba Dam wall. Now the premier’s election baby,let’s see what the budget update delivers.
The Albanese government has rejected NSW’s claims it had ignored a request for federal funding for the controversial project.
The NSW government is disputing claims by the prime minister that the premier has not spoken to him about a controversial plan to increase the Warragamba Dam wall.
Thousands of my constituents will be in harm’s way if the NSW government persists with its high-risk approach to floods.
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says he is now convinced the Warragamba Dam wall needs to be raised just one year after warning the project was economically unviable.
A controversial plan to raise the Warragamba Dam wall will be fast-tracked by the NSW government despite warnings over the project’s environmental impacts
As Sydney is again drenched by enough rain to tip the city over into its wettest year in history,the danger posed to low-lying regions by flooding is obvious.
Raising the Warragamba Dam wall could save more than 8000 people from flood risk by 2041,according to modelling the NSW government will use to justify the controversial project.
After four floods in two years,Darrell Davis cannot afford a rebuild of his Windsor home. He only has two options:sell up or hope for a government buyback scheme.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said that by 2040,about 40,000 people would need to be evacuated during flooding events in the Hawkesbury-Nepean region if there was a repeat of the catastrophic flooding of July.