#nswpol — Public Fediverse posts

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

HOW STUPID IS CHRIS MINNS? THE MOST STUPID!
@[email protected] - you created that civil unrest due to your profound ignorance. Riddle me this ... why couldn't he have projected a menorah (Ner Tamid) instead of the genocidal state's flag? Because you're a power tripping idiot! #Auspol #nswpol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crquu3blyn4b2adgj5hhb66p/post/3muviedvfbs2t

HOW STUPID IS CHRIS MINNS? THE MOST STUPID!
@[email protected] - you created that civil unrest due to your profound ignorance. Riddle me this ... why couldn't he have projected a menorah (Ner Tamid) instead of the genocidal state's flag? Because you're a power tripping idiot! #Auspol #nswpol

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:crquu3blyn4b2adgj5hhb66p/post/3muviedvfbs2t

@MsDropbear42
Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

#AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

@MsDropbear42
Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

#AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

@MsDropbear42
Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

#AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

@MsDropbear42
Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

#AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

@MsDropbear42
Best line: “Alabama on the Yarra” (with that ‘fun in the sun feel) 😎 as in: “Victorian Liberals spent the best part of a quarter-century tearing themselves apart, with much of the past decade given over to Christian fundamentalist entryists trying to seize control and turn the state into Alabama on the Yarra.” ✝️

Thanks for sharing (even tho’ deeply depressing). 🙂🙏🏻

#AusPol #VicPol #NSWPol #ICAC #ChristianFundamentalists #AlabamaOnTheYarra #VicLibs #LiberalParty #DeeplyDepressing

@nacho_borracho
Ohhhh - excellent response to make the point: it’s not the wealthy that die in the fire ‘caused by’ or allowed to happen by the unregulated building developments.

Just see the evidence to the NSW ICAC Operation Rosny for just how callously political wheeler dealers (not even elected! But happy to be brother of elected… I believe it’s called nepotism in some circumstances…) are happy to make money in similar circumstances.

#ICACRadio #dodgyDevelopers #AusPol #NSWPol

@nacho_borracho
Ohhhh - excellent response to make the point: it’s not the wealthy that die in the fire ‘caused by’ or allowed to happen by the unregulated building developments.

Just see the evidence to the NSW ICAC Operation Rosny for just how callously political wheeler dealers (not even elected! But happy to be brother of elected… I believe it’s called nepotism in some circumstances…) are happy to make money in similar circumstances.

#ICACRadio #dodgyDevelopers #AusPol #NSWPol

@nacho_borracho
Ohhhh - excellent response to make the point: it’s not the wealthy that die in the fire ‘caused by’ or allowed to happen by the unregulated building developments.

Just see the evidence to the NSW ICAC Operation Rosny for just how callously political wheeler dealers (not even elected! But happy to be brother of elected… I believe it’s called nepotism in some circumstances…) are happy to make money in similar circumstances.

#ICACRadio #dodgyDevelopers #AusPol #NSWPol

@nacho_borracho
Ohhhh - excellent response to make the point: it’s not the wealthy that die in the fire ‘caused by’ or allowed to happen by the unregulated building developments.

Just see the evidence to the NSW ICAC Operation Rosny for just how callously political wheeler dealers (not even elected! But happy to be brother of elected… I believe it’s called nepotism in some circumstances…) are happy to make money in similar circumstances.

#ICACRadio #dodgyDevelopers #AusPol #NSWPol

@nacho_borracho
Ohhhh - excellent response to make the point: it’s not the wealthy that die in the fire ‘caused by’ or allowed to happen by the unregulated building developments.

Just see the evidence to the NSW ICAC Operation Rosny for just how callously political wheeler dealers (not even elected! But happy to be brother of elected… I believe it’s called nepotism in some circumstances…) are happy to make money in similar circumstances.

#ICACRadio #dodgyDevelopers #AusPol #NSWPol

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.
...
"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

'$179m a week or $1.1m per hour: The shocking numbers crushing Sydney'

'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.'

As The Whitlams song goes, we need to Blow up the Pokies...
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/179m-a-week-or-1-1m-per-hour-the-shocking-numbers-crushing-sydney-20260320-p5qscx.html #gambling #pokies #health #nswpol