#nswpol — Public Fediverse posts

This is just so tasty.

Nassif is suggesting Alex Hawke, Tony Abbott, and Ray Hadley were all in on the leaning on him to get his cash

#auspol #ICAC #NSWpol

Oooh, Nassif is at ICAC this arvo!!!

I can't wait for him to do the zero fucks "here's how it worked, here's who's involved, deal with it"

#ICAC #auspol #NSWpol

The Parra metro station construction site has been a bit of a dead zone for a while. Finally filling it will make a massive difference to its CBD.

While there's a case for more offices, if you're going to go with apartments, you may as well go big:

"Four towers of up to 43 storeys will be built above or next to the new Parramatta railway station following the planned opening of the 24-kilometre Metro West line between Sydney CBD and Westmead in 2032.

"The over-station development just north of Parramatta Square will feature 470 apartments – up from 111 outlined in concept plans – and 500 units for student accommodation. It will feature pedestrian laneways and a landscaped park that will form part of a civic link connecting the station to the new Powerhouse Museum and Parramatta River foreshore.

"A 43-storey tower comprising the 470 build-to-rent apartments will be five storeys higher than originally outlined in the concept plans. Subject to planning approval, a 29-storey office building, a 24-level tower for student accommodation and an eight-storey hotel will also be built on the site."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-bigger-bill-and-higher-towers-for-parramatta-s-new-metro-station-20260907-p60v0a.html

#Parramatta #NSW #Australia #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #cities #auspol #nswpol

@gnoll110 @vandenberglegs @ajsadauskas More shenanigans at ICAC (the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption).

This time, it called up Anita Perrottet, who's the wife of Charles Perrottet, and the sister-in-law of former NSW State Premier Dominic Perrottet. (For anyone reading this outside Australia, a premier is our equivalent of an American state governor.)

Charles was allegedly one of the recipients of $2 million in bribes from failed property developer Jean Nassif.

Again, at this stage, I think Dominic should be called to explain what he knew abd when ge knew it.

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

"[Anita Perrottet's] evidence was so thoroughly unconvincing, and the corruption watchdog’s case against her so comprehensive, that it was tempting for a brief moment to feel sorry for the mother of two.

"However, the sheer volume of implausible claims uttered while twisting and contorting her way through a two-day appearance ultimately made it difficult to have much sympathy.
...
"She was paid $660,999 between July 2020 and December 2022 – a figure almost exactly one-third of the $2 million bribe that Nassif is alleged to have agreed to pay her husband and two other Liberal Party operatives.

"There is no written record of any work Anita did to warrant the payments. She repeatedly insisted that she was paid such a huge amount to be a “sounding board”.
...
"Anita Perrottet is no fool. She has a degree in marketing and communications from the University of Canberra. She has worked at global asset management company Fidelity International, the so-called “millionaire’s factory” Macquarie Bank, investment firm Magellan Financial Group, and funds giant Australian Unity. Perrottet agreed with Dwyer’s assessment this week that she was a “pretty astute businesswoman”.
...
"If her version of events is to be believed, Perrottet’s marketing knowledge is so good that she earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for nothing other than giving verbal advice to Jeremy Greenwood, a close friend of her family and the owner of two lobbying firms named Beckington and JPG Advisory.

"Greenwood, Charles Perrottet and Liberal operative Christian Ellis are the three men the ICAC alleges were to be the recipients of the $2 million Nassif bribe.
...
"It is not disputed that Beckington and JPG Advisory paid Perrottet the $660,999 in various invoices over 2½ years. She also concedes there is not one scrap of written evidence that she actually did any work.

"Pressed on what sort of advice she gave, Perrottet said that Greenwood at one point sought her counsel on behalf of a vaping client. Who was the client? She didn’t know. Did she do any research? No, but she did read news articles that had popped up on her social media feeds.

"What strategic advice did she provide in relation to the black market for vaping? “That there needed to be better regulation.” What did that advice include? “Like, you know, minors shouldn’t be able to be buying vapes, essentially.” For good measure, she also apparently advised Greenwood that kids would vape less if fun flavours were banned."
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"But the problems with her evidence didn’t end there. On Friday, she said she knew tax deductions listed by her business could only be made for legitimate business purposes. She said she would have only claimed travel for meetings she had held in Sydney with Greenwood.

"But she was soon presented with evidence that her husband had actually undertaken the regular travel to Sydney while she stayed at home in Melbourne. During the travel, Charles met with Nassif. Whoops, that must have been an error, Anita explained."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/stop-stop-she-s-already-dead-how-the-icac-nailed-anita-perrottet-s-absurd-excuses-20260828-p60sj7.html

#auspol #nswpol #politics #news #capitalism #Sydney #Parramatta #NSW #Australia

Probably not ideal to have the boss of a new museum stand down 72 days before it opens, due to an investigation into "governance and procurement practices":

"The opening of the billion-dollar Powerhouse Parramatta has been plunged into controversy after its chief executive stepped down 72 days before the opening of the state’s biggest cultural infrastructure investment since the Sydney Opera House.

"In a shock development, staff were alerted on Thursday afternoon that Lisa Havilah had stood aside from her role of seven years pending completion of a departmental investigation into “governance and procurement practices”. Only five days earlier, the museum had announced its first five exhibitions for the November 7 opening to much fanfare."

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/powerhouse-parramatta-chief-lisa-havilah-departs-just-weeks-from-opening-20260827-p60s1t.html

#parramatta #NSW #Australia #Powerhouse #auspol #nswpol

I remember a time decades ago when NSW was considered a police state where crooked cops was a systemic problem. It doesn’t look like it has changed much. Worse, the police now tramples on common law rights…

“The October 2022-enacted digital evidence access order regime provides that police can obtain a DEAO when executing search and crime scene warrants, and if the subject of the order refuses this, then it’s an offence carrying up to 5 years prison time. And as the section containing this criminal offence notes, this measure overrides the common law right against self-incrimination.

However, once NSW police officers have obtained access to a suspect’s phone, they don’t simply scroll through the owner’s latest social media posts, as rather, they employ a device and software developed by Israeli digital forensics company Cellebrite that once connected to a civilian’s phone downloads its entire content, including all deleted messages and images.”

How good are ‘panick buttons’, those that wipe a mobile clean as the push of a button? Not that I’d necessarliy consider it on my mobile, but you never know, right? I can’t see Police powers being roled back anytime soon, quite the contrary, expansion of those powers seems inevitable while #Minns is in charge.
(Source: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-to-be-given-powers-to-access-and-download-phone-content-on-the-beat/ )

#Privacy #CommonLawRights #DEAO #DigitalEvidenceAccessOrder #MobilePrivacy #LegislativeAgenda #NSWPol #PoliceState

People, mostly from working class suburbs, lost a record $9.3 billion on the pokies in the past year.

That's in New South Wales alone!

"Punters lost a record $9.3 billion on NSW poker machines last year – a surge of 8 per cent on the previous 12 months – as a sophisticated lobbying effort by the gambling industry stalls progress on political pledges to reduce harm in suburbs across Sydney.

"Newly released figures reveal $785 million was lost in the Canterbury-Bankstown area alone, as well as $720 million in Fairfield, $535 million in the Cumberland local government area, $420 million in central Sydney and $355 million on the Central Coast.
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"The losses represent about $179 million each week – or $1.1 million per hour – with most of the damage occurring in some of Sydney’s most disadvantaged suburbs, according to the Liquor and Gaming NSW report.

"The state government’s independent panel on gambling reform produced a series of harm minimisation recommendations in December 2024 which were savaged by the pubs and clubs industry as going too far, and by reform advocates as not doing enough."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/179m-a-week-or-1-1m-per-hour-the-shocking-numbers-crushing-sydney-20260320-p5qscx.html

#auspol #nswpol #gaming #gambling #pokies #pokermachines

From the OnePath Network Facebook group (link at end of post):

"NSW Premier Cancels Annual Iftar Following Deteriorating Relationship with the Muslim Community

NSW Premier Chris Minns has cancelled the state government’s annual Iftar dinner for the second time in three years, citing “consultation with Muslim community leaders,” amid escalating tensions between the Minns government and sections of the Muslim community. Several leaders say the cancellation reflects a deeper breakdown in trust. Lebanese Muslim Association Secretary Gamel Kheir described the move as “heartbreaking,” adding that under the current climate “no Islamic leaders would have attended anyway.” Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun went further, accusing the Premier of having a “fetish” for attacking Muslims. The cancellation of what has traditionally been a symbolic gesture of inclusion during Ramadan has been interpreted by critics as a sign that relations have deteriorated beyond ceremonial repair.

The strained relationship has been building for months, fuelled by the government’s handling of protests in Sydney, the fallout from Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia, and the Premier’s refusal to apologise after police forcibly removed Muslim men praying outside Town Hall during a peaceful protest. Community advocates also point to newly introduced hate speech laws, which they argue disproportionately impact Muslim and pro-Palestine voices under the guise of maintaining public order. While the Minns government maintains its approach is focused on safety and social cohesion, critics say the pattern of rhetoric and policy decisions has created an atmosphere of alienation. As Ramadan unfolds without the state’s official Iftar gathering, many see the cancellation not as a logistical decision, but as a symbol of a relationship that has become increasingly fractured."

(OnePath Network Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B3gYW2Tar/)

#NSW #NSWPol #Muslim #Ramadan #Iftar #Islamaphobia #ChrisMinns

Settlers:
*shocked by the violence of NSW Police over the weekend*

Me:
*laughs in Aboriginal*

#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #AusPol #Herzog #Palestine #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation #DeathToTheIDF #israel #FromTheRiverToTheSea

It was sickening though also enlightening to hear NSW Premier #ChrisMinns on the radio (ABC) this morning. It helpfully clarified that fundamentally, the public reason for all the chaos in Sydney's CBD last night, the reason Minns insisted NSW police prevent any march from occurring, is at its core quite deeply bigoted and racist.

What Minns admitted to in that interview this morning is that he did not trust rally organisers to do what they said they would do. He did not trust that a rally route ending at parliament house wouldn't actually be a Trojan horse for protesters to suddenly break off through police lines and go rampaging on a pogrom through the streets, looking for Jewish people to harm. That is why there couldn't be a march.

Something like 100 rallies organised by the same people, at which we have followed the agreed route every time. A hundred rallies without any arrests for violence or flouting lawful police directions (indeed, the only charges of violence in the context of 28 months of anti-genocide protest are from a police officer recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to a political candidate who ran against Prime Minister Albanese and came second to him in his electorate).

#NSWpol #NSWPolice #protest #Sydney #Gadigal #CriminalisationOfDIssent #HerzogNotWelcome

Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."

#NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime

@Sidherian
Looks like the link for the NSW Parliament inquiry into indoor air quality got truncated; it's https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3152

#CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver #nswpol

Senior police have taken less than a day to deploy anti-protest powers that were rushed into law after the Bondi Beach terror attack.

NSW Police late on Christmas Eve moved to ban protest rallies from key metropolitan areas in Sydney after legislation was passed earlier the same morning to allow the action following declared terrorist incidents.

Meanwhile, Indigenous groups have raised concerns an extension of the police anti-protest designation could render "invasion day" protests on January 26 unlawful.

Mr Minns said the assemblies could take place, although he drew a distinction between static rallies and marches through the city.

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #SovereigntyNeverCeded #Treaty #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #AbolishAustraliaDay #InvasionDay

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/indigenous-groups-concerned-january-26-protests-could-be-cancelled-under-new-laws/avrwjks4d?fbclid=IwYW9zYgO_M2pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5hUdbCVtsUS9fTdk7X1L3-udNBwD4L091BSd1CKMReS55v1mpI7FoNHIAUNw_aem_KNXQo-HZIh3Q7qfY4f_uZQ

tbc I am a prison abolitionist.

I just don't believe that we should begin with letting literal Nazis free.

#AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #ThomasSewell

Thomas Sewell got 200 hours of community service.

Because the 150 hours he's previously had worked so well.

#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #ThomasSewell

Today's enormous march was also a powerful repudiation of Premier Chris Minns' attempts to criminalise and demonise public protest in NSW over the last 21 months—efforts that have seen Premier Minns awarded a special medal by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, an individual many believe to be guilty of the crime of incitement to genocide due to numerous public statements he has made in support of the Netanyahu government's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Minns has faced no public consequence from his federal counterparts for accepting this award, despite the notorious origin of the award, and despite the apparent over-reach of a state government official receiving an award for a foreign power for his efforts in suppressing public criticism of that power (as a state representative, he is not meant to meddle in federal foreign policy).

Minns attempts to stifle this march were rejected by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday in a powerful ruling affirming the fact that protest will always involve inconvenience and disruption, and consequently, NSW Police were directed to facilitate rather than suppress today's march.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckirKaU8_94

#ChrisMinns #NSWpol #protest #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWSupremeCourt #NSWpolice #IsaacHerzog #IncitementToGenocide #MarchForHumanity #Sydney #Gadigal

Mainstream media coverage of the "March for Humanity: Save Gaza" predictably focused on the 'confusion' resulting from the shifting march route (adjusted on the fly by NSW Police, based on claims of a dangerous "crowd crush" situation developing at the train station at the northern end of the bridge (a claim I have yet to see corroborated by eyewitness statements or video evidence).

This media framing was guilty of burying the lede on the far bigger story today: an absolutely enormous public repudiation of the foreign policy priorities of the federal government for the last 21 months. According to many experts in international law, the Australian government is in breach of its legal obligations under the Genocide Convention, as well as in breach of specific recent rulings of the International Court of Justice.

Throughout the deadly escalation of the last 21 months, a period in which Israel's longstanding pattern of #WarCrimes has grown ever more egregious, the Australian government has continued to permit materials manufactured here and used in Israeli weapons systems to be exported to a context where #CrimesAgainstHumanity are on daily display via livestream.

#auspol #InternationalLaw #Gaza #GazaGenocide #ICJ #NSWpol #MarchForHumanity #SydneyHarbourBridge #NSWpolice

Similar demands have animated near-weekly protests on unceded Gadigal land on over 80 previous Sundays, each of which has seen thousands or tens of thousands of people march through the city centre—all without serious incident or public 'chaos', all without tolerating or expressing antisemitism, and without ever losing any of the various cases the NSW government and/or NSW police have brought to the NSW Supreme Court in various attempts to thwart these gatherings. Each Sunday, a wide variety of interesting, passionate and insightful speakers have addressed the movement: Palestinian refugees and poets, Jewish academics and authors, Aboriginal elders and activists, student leaders and children, survivors of the 1948 Nakba, nurses, doctors, journalists, artists, lawyers, historians, teachers, faith leaders, union leaders, and even an occasional parliamentarian or two (some of the few in public office who have consistently called for adherence to international law).

Today was the biggest gathering so far. And yet one of the first to actually get substantial (or indeed any) media coverage: before, during and after.

#protest #auspol #NSWpol #ChrisMinns #AnthonyAlbanese #Gaza #StopTheGenocide #SydneyHarbourBridge #MarchForHumanity

Today likely saw the largest single protest rally in Australian history.

Under dark rain clouds, hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge in a huge demonstration opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza, as well as the complicity of the Australian government in failing to oppose Israel's crimes against humanity.

The 'March for Humanity: Save Gaza' saw organisers' expectations smashed and the government's worst fears exceeded as a great ocean of people showed up, despite pouring rain, strong winds, and a week of front page negative stories carrying anti-protest messages from the Minns state government and NSW police. It was huge.

An ocean of people, diverse in age, background, gender, religion, and rain-mitigation techniques, yet united via common humanity with those suffering starvation, snipers and shells, displacement, destruction and deprivation in Gaza:
"In our thousands,
in our millions,
we are all
Palestinians!"

The protest had four demands:
- Let all aid into Gaza
- Immediate Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal from Gaza
- Sanction Israel now
- End Australia’s two way arms trade with Israel

#MarchForHumanity #Gadigal #Gaza #auspol #NSWpol #protest #StopTheGenocide #starvation #WarCrimes #Palestine #solidarity #SydneyHarbourBridge

#SydneySwans #rookie #lgbtqia+ #homophobia #australia #classwar #sydney #nswpol #nswgov #nsw #newsouthwales #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/swans-rookie-raik-andrew-to-miss-five-weeks-slur/105565508

The inquiry has recommended eliminating prison sentences before decriminalising and finally legalising and regulating #cannabis.

https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-inquiry-into-cannabis-laws-recommends-staged-reforms-leading-to-legalisation/

https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/57380

#australia #marijuana #humanrights #endthedrugwar #stopthedrugwar #ausgov #auspol #tasgov #taspol #politas #nswpol #nswgov #nsw #newsouthwales #classwar #weed #maryjane #drug #drugs #fascism #capitalism #statism #oppression #repression

NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns does not seem to have come across a protest that he doesn't want to ban—with PM Albanese and federal Labor backing him up at almost every step of the way.

Feels like these Labor leaders might need a little refresher on the history of the labour movement they purport to represent...

#NSWpol #Auspol #CriminalisationOfDissent #ChrisMinns #AnthonyAlbanese #ALP

Building Beautifully talking about YIMBY Sydney and attending a community consultation about the NSW government upzoning land around public transport to allow higher density housing.
#Sydney #Urbanism #yimbyism #nswpol

https://youtu.be/TZM5ugPpGeI

#NSW government accused of bowing to #gambling #lobby as cashless gaming trial delayed. Trial for 500 poker machines won’t begin on 1 July as planned, with a panel to oversee it yet to be established. #nswpol #PokerMachines #pokermachine #gamblinglobby #lobbying

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/22/nsw-government-accused-of-bowing-to-gambling-lobby-as-cashless-gaming-trial-delayed

The most recent #pokermachine data published by Liquor and #GamingNSW shows just under 22,500 gaming machines in about 1200 pubs across the state. In the first six months of 2022, pub pokies swallowed more than $1.6 billion in net profit. #clubsnsw #moneylaundering #nswpol #nswvotes

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/a-boil-on-our-industry-why-this-publican-banned-pokies-at-his-sydney-venues-20230119-p5cdr3.html

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2023/01/horse-3133-blow-up-pokies.html - blogged

Blow Up The Pokies

#NSWPol #PokerMachines #Pokies

The Australian Hotels Association and #ClubsNSW, together, disclosed roughly $16 million in political contributions between 1998-99 and 2019-20, an ABC investigation has revealed. #NSWPOL #nswvotes #NSWVotes2023 #gambling #moneylaundering #laundering

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-23/how-gambling-industrys-biggest-political-donors-influence-votes/100592068