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PARLIAMENT

Murray-Darling Basin Plan - Adjournment Speech

New South Wales has failed the Murray-Darling Basin. It has failed the communities of the basin, it has failed to protect the rivers, flood plains and wetlands of the basin, and it has failed the many species of birds, frogs, reptiles, turtles and fish that rely on healthy freshwater ecosystems...

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Water Management Amendment (Easements For Inundation) Bill - speech

I speak in support of the Water Management Amendment (Easements for Inundation) Bill 2025, as The Greens water portfolio holder. The bill was originally introduced to remove a clear policy barrier to restoring the health of rivers and flood plains across the Murray-Darling Basin. It was brought forward in the...

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Medlow Dam PFAS Contamination - Private Members' Statement

In August 2024 WaterNSW shut down Medlow Dam after high levels of PFAS forever chemicals were found. That was after reporting by The Sydney Morning Herald in June, which showed alarmingly high levels of PFAS forever chemicals waterways feeding into the Blue Mountains water supply, including Medlow Dam. 

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Blue Mountains Water Contamination - Question Without Notice

My question is directed to the Minister for Water. On 11 March a story in The Sydney Morning Herald about PFAS being discovered in the garden soil of some homes in Medlow Bath in the Blue Mountains stated that WaterNSW had begun a second phase of its investigation into the source of the...

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Report: Select Committee on PFAS Contamination in Waterways and Drinking Water Supplies Throughout NSW

I table report No. 1 of the select committee, entitled PFAS contamination in waterways and drinking water supplies throughout New South Wales, dated September 2025, together with transcripts of evidence, tabled documents, submissions, correspondence and answers to questions taken on notice and supplementary questions.

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“This Industry is Wrecking Everything Locals Love”: Faehrmann Calls for Urgent Regulation of Blueberry Farms on the Mid North Coast

Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has delivered a scathing speech in the NSW Upper House, calling for urgent intervention by the Minns Government to regulate the intensive blueberry industry across the Mid North Coast, after recently visiting the area and meeting with distressed residents in the Nambucca Valley and surrounding regions.

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Minns must stop dragging his feet on Warragamba flood mitigation measures

As Hawkesbury residents brace themselves for the threat of yet another flood, Greens MP and water spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has renewed calls for the NSW Government to act on recommendations to use Warragamba Dam as a flood mitigation tool. 

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Proposed changes to drinking water guidelines for PFAS not low enough: Greens

The NSW Government should be strongly advocating for Australia’s drinking water guidelines to reflect global best practice after draft new guidelines released today still have Australia lagging behind the US on acceptable levels for some ‘forever chemicals’ says Cate Faehrmann, Greens NSW MP and chair of the newly established Upper...

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Greens to move for Parliamentary Inquiry into PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water

The Greens will move for an urgent Upper House Inquiry this week after more revelations that cancer-linked forever chemicals have been detected in Sydney’s drinking water catchment - this time well above Australian drinking water guidelines.

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Urgent investigation needed into Sydney’s drinking water

Greens MP and water spokesperson Cate Faehrmann says the NSW Government must urgently carry out a full independent investigation into Sydney’s drinking water after more revelations that cancer-linked forever chemicals have been detected in Sydney’s drinking water catchment.

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