As broader restrictions are issued on New South Wales with temporary closure of non-essential retail trade, the Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party will strenuously seek firearms dealers be classified as an essential service to provide essential items for those persons reliant upon the continued use of firearms.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro has conceded to Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party MLC Mark Banasiak that the new Koala State Environment Protection Policy (SEPP), released under the radar in December 2019, will inflict unnecessary financial damage on rural land holders, forestry and timber workers, and farmers.

Nationals Remain Silent on Water Registry Motion

The NSW Nationals need to decide if they support farmers or support secret water barons ahead of a parliamentary debate on publishing the names of water owners, says Shooters Fishers Farmers (SFF) party leader Robert Borsak.

There is no secret ingredient for good schools according to Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party MLC Mark Banasiak, but a not-so-secret wealth of data that has been ignored for five years.

Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party MLC Mark Banasiak will be moving amendments to legislation that will ensure Crown Land, like National Parks and State Parks, share the costs to repair and replace shared boundary fences taken down in natural disasters.

A probity report that was found by the Auditor General to not follow process or procedure was used by this Government as a means to justify the commercial fishing reform that has decimated fishing businesses along the New South Wales coast.

         Barry and Heather Elliot of Wallis Lake with the Commercial Fishing petition tabled in Parliament by SFF Phil Donato, Member for Orange

A permanent bushfire control watchdog must be established to make recommendations publicly on the science and practical requirements of bushfire control and hazard reduction, says Leader of the Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party Robert Borsak.

Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson’s $20 million plus election promise to upgrade local roads is proving to be empty as he defers the upgrade in favour of funding an “expert panel” to conduct a review, says Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party MLC Mark Banasiak.

Recreational fishers have been left out of the consultation process following a DPI decision to extend crab trapping in the Clarence River according to Shooters Fishers and Farmers MLC Mark Banasiak.

NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro has now made more threats to withdraw from the Murray Darling Basin Plan than John Farnham has done farewell tours, says SFF Murray MP Helen Dalton.