THURSDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2025
ISSUE #476
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The NSW Ombudsman is investigating claims that the Department of Housing and Industry (DPHI) published misinformation on its website regarding a controversial development at Kariong.
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group Coast BUYCommunity ONE GET ONE FREE Environmental Alliance (CEA) and Traditional Custodians have been campaigning to stop a housing development planned by Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council (DLALC) on the site due to the ecological and cultural values of the area. The group recently took aim at the Department, claiming that information on the public planning website was “dishonest, deliberately misleading and blatantly supporting the developer”. Indigenous spokesperson for CEA, Jasmin Ertl, said the fact that the department was now under
Many protests have been held in recent years over the proposed development
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Department are ‘warranted’,” she said. CEA contends that the Frequently Asked Questions section on the government Planning website has misrepresented the true scope of the development’s impact, downplaying potential risks to the environment,
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cultural heritage, local wildlife and human life. These concerns are amplified by the recent proposal to amend legislation to “combat misinformation and disinformation”, which aims to prevent the dissemination of falsehoods on digital platforms that could cause harm. CEA says the alleged misleading information on the government website fits precisely into the kind of harmful misinformation that the Bill is designed to address. Biodiversity spokesperson for CEA and managing director of a marina at Brooklyn, Seamus Turton, said the development would have a devastating, far-reaching and permanent impact on endangered wetlands which were essential to the health of the fishing and oyster industries in Brisbane Water.
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