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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.

  • Lucy Cormack and Alexandra Smith

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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.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Lucy Cormack
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
Lee Jones, Family First; Kaushaliya Vaghela, New Democrats; Chris Burson, Angry Victorians Party; and Geoff Shaw, United Australia Party.

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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.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Georgina Mitchell
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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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A cotton farm near Bourke. The issue of how to licence water take by farmers during periods of flooding remains unresolved after the NSW Upper House voted to disallow the latest regulations put forward by the state government.

NSW government cops water policy blow as another setback looms

The upper house has rejected the scheme to license irrigators’ extraction during floods while a federal agency has dismissed the government’s river plans.

  • Peter Hannam
NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey has been pushing for changes to the rules on flood plain harvesting.

‘Unacceptable’: Labor joins other MPs to block flood plain harvesting rules

NSW Labor will reject plans by the NSW government to regulate the ability of irrigators to capture flood waters flowing across their properties.

  • Peter Hannam

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