Plibersek can still kill projects at the federal level, the Minns law change won't be able to stop that as it only applies to state development approval. This new law is actually probably almost entirely a response to Bowdens, along with a few other examples where activists have used the IPC process to delay projects.
But the way this law change is worded shows it's almost entirely directed at stopping the loophole that got Bowdens' DA voided. Minns was rightly fuming over what Plibersek did to Regis but his options for changing that are limited, it's going to have to wait for the Coalition to get back in power federally to overturn that decision.
Minns' government is doing what it can to stop the shocking increase in NSW's (and Australia's in general) sovereign risk as an investment destination. We used to be a Tier 1 jurisdiction, now we're not due to anti-mining interests that have infested all 3 arms of government along with the media.
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