Mining sector met NSW ministers almost every week over four years

Mining and resources companies were given an extraordinary level of access to the highest rungs of the New South Wales government in the past four years, securing roughly 188 meetings with ministers in 235 weeks.

 The NSW Minerals Council has obtained regular access
to resources, planning and finance ministers, and the
offices of premiers and deputy premiers.

An analysis of four and a half years of the state’s ministerial diaries shows the NSW Minerals Council has obtained regular access to resources, planning and finance ministers, and the offices of premiers and deputy premiers.

The council was given 61 meetings with NSW ministers, more than anyone except the NSW Farmers Association and Penrith city council.

Further meetings were granted to multinational resource and energy companies such as Shenhua, Whitehaven, Glencore, AGL, Rio Tinto, BHP, Origin Energy, Santos, Anglo American and Centennial Coal.

Read the story from The Guardian by Nick Evershed and Christopher Knaus - “Mining sector met NSW ministers almost every week over four years.”