Nationals leader John Barilaro's abandoned threat to bring down the Berejiklian government over koala habitat protections was just the latest in a series of clashes involving environmental issues
in June 2019 to vow to legislate the downgrading the status of the 42,000 national park to allow timber harvesting to resume.
In a heated cabinet meeting in late August to discuss the NSW Bushfire Inquiry report, Mr Barilaro and other National MPs are understood to have fumed that the 76 recommendations made by former chief scientist Mary O'Kane and ex-deputy police commissioner Dave Owens did not go far enough, Liberal sources say.
Of particular irritation to Nationals is that Mr Kean has so-called concurrence rights, giving him final say on policies from water-sharing plans to native-vegetation controls that the farmers' party feel really belong to them.
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