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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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River with 1800 times safe level of PFAS needs urgent testing

Greens MP and water and mining spokesperson Cate Faehrmann says the Government must urgently carry out testing of the Belubula River, make the results public and act to clean up the source, after extensive PFAS contamination has been discovered in the Belubula River near the Cadia Gold Mine.

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Cotton Industry

Ms Cate Faehrmann: I recently made a trip to north-western New South Wales, along the Macquarie, Namoi and Barwon-Darling rivers. I witnessed irrigated cotton production on a scale I could not previously imagine. I drove past cotton modules lined up for kilometre after kilometre. Some say that this is a...

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Walgett Water Supply

Ms Cate Faehrmann: My question is directed to the Minister for Water. In May last year the Minister described the Walgett water supply as unpalatable and undrinkable, and she gave the community a commitment that she would switch it over to treated river water as soon as she could. 

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Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in NSW.

Ms Cate Faehrmann: I will be the second member—and the second Greens member—to speak on the report entitled Current and potential impacts of gold, silver, lead and zinc mining on human health, land, air and water quality in New South Wales. We will get to what I think is the reason...

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