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Lead Still Polluting Kid’s Blood in Broken Hill Latest Report Confirms

NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has condemned the Minns Government's response to the ongoing lead crisis in Broken Hill, after the latest Lead Program Annual Report revealed that more than one-third of young children in the city still have elevated blood lead levels and Aboriginal children continue to bear the...

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Bowden's Silver and Lead Project - Adjournment Speech

In April 2023 the Independent Planning Commission [IPC] approved an open-cut lead, zinc and silver mine in one of the State's premier food and wine regions. On 16 August 2024, the Court of Appeal overturned that decision. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act reveal a sustained, coordinated effort...

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Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2025 - Second Reading Speech

On behalf of The Greens, I contribute to debate on the Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2025, which we oppose. The Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Act 1986 exists for a very clear purpose: To prohibit uranium mining and the construction or operation of nuclear reactors...

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Environmental Legislation Amendment Bill 2025

I contribute to debate on the Environmental Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 on behalf of The Greens and indicate at the outset that, of course, I support the excellent contribution of my colleague Ms Sue Higginson. I also put on record my disappointment with the rushed nature of the introduction of...

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Critical Minerals and High Tech Metals - Call for Papers

This motion is a call for papers in relation to the mining activities of a number of critical minerals companies. I have moved this call for papers because my office has been working with many communities across New South Wales that have questions about things such as the exploration licences for...

Stop lead mines poisoning children

In Broken Hill, decades of lead mining have left nearly half of all children under 5 - and more than three-quarters of First Nations children - with unsafe blood lead levels. Now we’ve learned the Environment Protection Authority covered up a report exposing the dangers of lead mining to protect...

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Update: Bowdens court decision safe but planning laws further weakened

The Environment Planning and Assessment (State Significant Development) Bill 2024 that was tabled last night in the NSW Upper House will not invalidate the Court of Appeal ruling on the Bowdens lead and silver mine.

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Minns’ law change to counter Court ruling on Bowdens mine ‘cruel and will devastate the community’: Greens

The Minns Government is set to overturn a recent decision by the NSW Court of Appeal which stopped Bowdens lead and silver mine from proceeding by introducing a bill into Parliament this week, in a cruel move that will devastate the local community, says Greens MP and mining spokesperson Cate...

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Massive win for Mudgee as Court Declares Bowdens Mine Approval VOID

Today’s decision by the NSW Court of Appeal to declare the approval for the controversial Bowdens lead and silver mine at Lue, near Mudgee, void, is a massive win for the local community that has been fighting to stop the mine for years, said  Greens MP and mining spokesperson Cate...

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Cadia Mine Environment Protection License

Ms Cate Faehrmann: My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment. The ABC reported today that Newmont mining has confirmed polluted water from its Cadia goldmine operations containing arsenic, zinc, manganese and sulphate has entered the groundwater. Cadia's environment protection licence does not specify pollutant limits for groundwater or...

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