Petition the Parliament - on any issue that you care about.
Comment on the NSW Cancer Plan. You can do it online
Petition the Parliament - on any issue that you care about.
Comment on the NSW Cancer Plan. You can do it online
“The adoption of a New South Wales bill of rights would serve to take lawmaking power from our democratically elected parliament and hand that power over to unelected judges”

The Hon Penny Sharpe MLC
Australian Labor Party
Parliament House
Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: 02 9230 2741
Fax: 02 9230 2589
Email Penny Sharpe
How NSW ensures continued energy supplies into the future is at the heart of the electricity debate. Who is best (public or private or a combination of both) to provide the energy? Who should pay? What are the costs to the government with any given option? Are there environmental implications to any option that is chosen? How are workers and consumers protected?
I attended the ALP conference at the weekend as a delegate from the State Parliamentary Labor Party. I supported the conference motion that rejected the Premier and the Treasurer's plan to privatise the retail and generation arms of the state's electricity system.
I did not speak at the conference but I have received many emails and phone calls from people wanting to know my position on this matter.
I do not support the current plan for the following reasons:
Economic