In coming days, legislation allowing the deliberate destruction of thousands of hectares of pristine World Heritage-listed wilderness is likely to become law, without an assessment of the environmental, cultural, or economic impacts.

Far from the actions of a tin-pot dictatorship, this unprecedented environmental attack is championed by the NSW government and affects areas on Sydney’s doorstep.

Contentious: The Warragamba Dam.

It is illegal to flood national park land with a dam, so the Berejiklian government needs to change that if they press ahead with plans to spend an estimated $800 million raising the wall of Warragamba Dam by 14 metres.

The land to be flooded is not only of the highest conservation value, it is among the most highly-protected and significant natural landscapes in Australia: World Heritage-listed; National Park; declared wilderness; declared wild river; and National Heritage status.