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Mark Banasiak in NSW Parliament House back in 2021.

NSW upper house debates ‘heterosexual discrimination’ bill

On Thursday, NSW Parliament delivered a historic apology for anti-gay laws. A day earlier, the upper house was stuck debating a rather different bill.

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The Russian president’s assault on Ukraine threatens the core values and interests on which postwar Europe is built.

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers dump candidate over pro-Putin views

Sean Ambrose remains on the ballot paper as the SFF candidate for Heathcote, as the party was only made aware of his views after the close of nominations.

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Barwon MP Roy Butler and Orange MP Phil Donato quit the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party in December.

The two independents refusing to back Perrottet’s pokies reform

Phil Donato and Roy Butler are not joining other independent MPs to support cashless gaming, saying the NSW government is moving too fast.

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Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP Robert Borsak.

Shooters party in disarray after two MPs quit over leader’s refusal to resign

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party is without representation in the NSW lower house after two MPs decided to run as independents at the March state election.

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Main: Robert Borsak. Inset: Helen Dalton

MPs call for leader to quit over ‘clocked her’ remarks

Three Shooters MPs have asked leader Robert Borsak to resign from parliament after his comments calling for a female MP to be “clocked”.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Shooters, Fishers and Farmers MP Robert Borsak.

‘Should have got up and clocked her’: anger over Borsak’s comments about female MP

NSW upper house MP Robert Borsak has said a female member should have been “clocked” following a fiery debate last week.

  • Lucy Cormack and Tom Rabe
John Tingle.

Shooters Party founder John Tingle dies aged 90

ABC journalist Laura Tingle paid tribute to her father’s “extraordinary life” after the former NSW upper house member died on Friday.

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Santos’s Narrabri gasfield already produces energy to power more than 30,000 homes. The company is awaiting full approval including a final investment decision on the Narrabri gas project.

Development of ‘zombie’ gasfield areas would create waste, water issues: opponents

Large swaths of some of the state’s best farmland could be opened up for coal seam gas development, resulting in the extraction of many gigalitres of groundwater.

  • Peter Hannam
NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay says it would be a “copout” to blame her leadership for her party’s loss in the Upper Hunter.

Labor’s bad politics in Upper Hunter: clumsiest of all, we should never have suggested we’d win

A former NSW Labor minister and general-secretary finds lessons for the party in the Upper Hunter byelection loss.

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