Mark Speakman
NSW Leader of the Opposition
Steph Cooke
Shadow Minister for Crown Lands
The Minns Labor Government is openly divided over its plan to bulldoze Carnarvon Golf Course and turn it into a new cemetery.
On one side, the local Labor MP for Auburn, Lynda Voltz, has told Parliament this evening Sydney has no cemetery crisis, pointing to more than 163,000 burial plots at Macarthur Memorial Park and Nepean Memorial Gardens, enough to last until 2058.
On the other, the Minister for Crown Lands, Steve Kamper, claims the issue is one of urgency, demanding action in just a matter of years
Both can’t be right. Either Lynda Voltz doesn’t believe her Premier and his Minister, or the Premier’s own frontbench is misleading the public.
This is not just a policy split; it is a caucus at war. The government’s left hand doesn’t know what its right hand is doing. Labor MPs are contradicting each other in Parliament, in the media, and in their own electorates.
Families deserve transparency. Instead, they are watching Labor fight itself while their green space is under threat.
NSW Leader of the Opposition, Mark Speakman said Steve Kamper says this is urgent and running out in a matter of years.
“Lynda Voltz says Sydney has cemetery land until 2058. Who in the Labor caucus is telling the truth?”, Mr Speakman said.
Shadow Minister for Crown Lands, Steph Cooke said one Labor MP says there’s no crisis for over 30 years.
“A Labor Minister says it’s urgent. That’s not consultation, that’s division at the heart of the Labor caucus.” Ms Cooke said.