No respect for Western Sydney

22 February 2021

When Western Sydney airport's EIS was approved by the then minister, Josh Frydenberg, in 2016, it required a huge environmental offsets package to give this project any hope of being accepted. There are vulnerable grey-headed flying fox in the habitat. There's Cumberland Plain habitat. It's home to the critically endangered swift parrot. There was a sizeable amount of money put aside—around $180 million. That sounds great in theory, but, in practice, there is no land that can be used to offset the environmental impa

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