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'Significant trauma': calls grow for mental health support after Wallsend crash

'It can really shake people's sense of safety.'

Newcastle Herald · 5h ago

Scottish pensioners tell Andy Burnham 'don't hit us to pay for English care'

PENSIONERS are calling on Andy Burnham to explain why he plans to “hit” them with changes to the triple lock.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 4

NSW may not be able to prosecute large-scale water theft due to doubts about licences for billions of litres

Successful legal challenge raises questions about hundreds of floodplain harvesting licences issued by former Coalition government

The Guardian - AU · Aug 30

Mass fish deaths feared as Minns government promise to restore Murray-Darling rivers in doubt

Grazier is worried towns will ‘run out of water’ if flows don’t improve, urging state government to take action regardless of federal funds

The Guardian - AU · Jul 5

Back-to-nature plan for Ironbark Creek to reduce flood risk in Wallsend CBD

United front to deliver coordinated flood risk management plan

Newcastle Herald · Jun 17

Water flows to parched NSW wetlands could be turned back on within weeks as drought fears loom

Water minister Rose Jackson calls drying in Gwydir region ‘devastating’ as bill passes upper house

The Guardian - AU · May 8

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

NSW and Queensland governments ‘severely underdelivered’ on promised infrastructure to improve water flows, independent review finds

The Guardian - AU · Apr 22

Death of Sydney’s ‘birdman’ described as ‘beyond tragic’ by Albanese government

NSW housing and homelessness minister says Bikram Lama’s death shows the ‘gaps’ that people without residency can fall through

The Guardian - AU · Apr 21

WaterNSW criticised for ‘appalling’ decision after hundreds of turtles left to die in wetlands

River ecologist says ‘classic bureaucratic tangle’ led to government agency stopping flows to Gwydir wetlands region in March

The Guardian - AU · Apr 20

‘Incomprehensible’: birds flee and hundreds of turtles left to die after government cuts water to NSW wetlands

Frogs and sheep in the Gwydir wetlands near Moree have also been bogged after WaterNSW stopped environmental flows, researchers say

The Guardian - AU · Apr 17