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The NSW Greens says the party has referred Chris Minns’ “sweetheart deal” on hunting rights with the Shooters’ party for a parliamentary inquiry after the Legislative Council declined to rush the laws through.

The Greens’ spokesperson for agriculture and the environment, Sue Higginson, said the party had acted after an “outcry of concern” from voters about the deal which would enshrine a “right to hunt” in NSW, provide “resources and power to a statutory body stacked by the gun lobby”, and pave the way for a minister for hunting.

This bill from the gun lobby seemed to come out of thin air, and it’s no coincidence that the premier Chris Minns and his Labor government immediately supported it just when they were hoping to buy votes for their changes to the workers compensation scheme.

If passed, these laws would have a massive impact on the resources of local councils with all crown land managers having to consider shooting on public lands in their communities. Despite the massive impact that these laws would have, no one was consulted with on these changes before Chris Minns made his captain’s call to back the Shooters.

The goal is to protect the public while allowing productivity-enhancing innovation to flourish.

In fact, the biggest employment risk from AI may not be job displacement – it may be working for a business that doesn’t adopt it and falls behind or fails entirely. Think of it as the equivalent of working for a boss who insists that the fax machine will make a comeback. Continue reading...