Wendy Bacon Journalist, activist
Menu№ 3 in Wading through greenwashing
The NSW EPA ordered Bingo Industries to install a gas plant to remove unhealthy hydrogen sulphide odours. Two gas flares were lit but the odours continue. Western Sydney residents, backed by local Labor MPs, are calling on the EPA to close the plant down. In this blog post, I reveal long term weaknesses in the landfill's environmental record, management and regulation.
№ 1 in Wading through greenwashing
Bingo has passed its deadline for cleaning up terrible odours affecting thousands of residents in Western Sydney.
№ 1 in Inside Westconnex
For six months, Westconnex secretly negotiated to buy a waste dump for a giant interchange, without informing the local residents of their plan.
№ 4 in Winning on Welfare Street
The NSW government is involved in a land deal organised by a lawyer who hid controversial Obeid family investments.
№ 10 in Packer’s Sydney Casino
For a party that was swept to power on a platform of anti corruption and transparency, the NSW Liberal Party is looking very grubby today.
№ 9 in Packer’s Sydney Casino
There's a small issue that has been niggling at me all week. It's about Sinodinos and Packer.
Kevin Rudd's intervention in the NSW ALP is welcome. But the secret approval process for Packer's casino proves it's business as usual for the mates who run the state, writes Wendy Bacon.
№ 3 in Packer’s Sydney Casino
Packer makes his Sydney casino proposal seem inevitable with strong support from LNP Premier O'Farrell and Treasurer Mike Baird, urged on by NSW Labor
№ 2 in Packer’s Sydney Casino
New Matilda had some questions for NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell about James Packer's casino plans. We got a reply from his office - but no real answers. Here’s our exchange with the Premier’s office.
A promised overhaul of NSW's planning framework has drawn the ire of resident and environment groups, whose contributions have been scrapped in favour of cosier relations with developers.