22 April | Reform & Precinct Tracker

Please see below April's edition of the PremierNational Property, Planning and Infrastructure ‘Reform & Precinct Tracker’.

Included in this blog, you will also find some high level PremierNational insights into the Minister for Environment and Heritage, James Griffin.

Please contact our Director Ilana Waldman, Special Counsel Lino Caccavo or Special Counsel Antony Anisse if you have any questions with respect to any of these items.

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Minister Griffin was appointed as the Minister for Environment and Heritage on 21 December 2021. Since his appointment, he has been warmly welcomed across all sectors and has been thought of as successfully continuing the strong agenda and reform set by his predecessor, Matt Kean.

Griffin has served as the Member for Manly since 2017 and has held various roles as the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Veterans, Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment and Veterans, Chair of the Legislation Review Committee, and Chair of the Legislative Assembly Committee on Environment and Planning.

Prior to entering NSW Parliament in 2017, Griffin was a Councillor for Manly Council from 2012 to 2016 and served as the Deputy Mayor from 2015 to 2016.  In 2009, Griffin co-founded SR7, a digital risk consulting company, which was later acquired by the professional service group, KPMG. He subsequently joined KPMG as a Director from 2014 to 2017.

Griffin is passionate about the environment and believes that when it comes to managing the tension between protecting the environment and the needs of extractive industries and agriculture,

“The starting point on all of that is to respect and believe the science as a driver of policy. I’m actually really excited by the opportunity to I’ve got to reimagine some of the relationships that have been contentious over time.” - James Griffin