Environment & Climate

I acknowledge The Village Project in Summer Hill for its terrific work leading the way towards making all aspects of our community more sustainable.

As mining communities like Lithgow move away from fossil fuels over the following decades, we need the vision and investment now to support local communities and create local jobs through initiatives like these.

Water is life. No-one knows that better than communities in far west New South Wales.

According the World Wide Fund for Nature Australia, Australians use 130 kilograms of plastic per person every year. Only 9 per cent of that is recycled.

Over the month of March, the Cooks River Alliance has been bringing together inner westies and local environmental groups to help clean up the Cooks River and our local parks across the inner west.

Across the inner west, kids, families and local volunteers rolled up their sleeves to help protect our precious biodiversity, parks, streets and waterways.

The Parramatta River Catchment Group has been working tirelessly to make the Parramatta River swimmable by 2025

Notes the clearing of native vegetation as part of work to maintain the High Pressure Oil Pipeline that runs along the banks of the Cooks River.

Notes calls from the University of New South Wales and the Australia Conservation Foundation for the platypus to be listed as a threatened species in New South Wales.

Congratulations to the inner west schools who are among the first to receive solar panels as part of the Solar My School Program.