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unusual facts about NSW Government



Carcoar Dam

In the early 1990s, the NSW Government assisted to establish wetlands at Carcoar Dam in an effort to control blue-green algae which had made the dam unusable for recreation and made the water discharged from the dam unusable, even for domestic animals.

Eric Roozendaal

In 2010 and 2011, Roozendaal was criticised for the deal he brokered, as Treasurer of New South Wales, to privatise some of the NSW Government's electricity assets; the retail branches of Integral Energy and Country Energy were sold to Origin Energy in December 2010.

Queen's Counsel

The NSW Government replaced the office of Queen's Counsel with the office of Senior Counsel in 1993.


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Proposed railways in Sydney

In 2007, the NSW government announced the concept of an underground metro line between West Ryde and Malabar.