AdvertisementPoliticsNSWNSW State Parliament ‘We can’t go back’: Premier digs in as Sydney’s NIMBY instinct returns Max Maddison July 29, 2026 — 2:29pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. But he also said that latent opposition to greater density was re-emerging as the state government’s planning reforms progressed. Advertisement“As we progress from theories to plans to actual developments, we have regrettably seen a re-engagement with that NIMBY instinct,” Minns said at the CEDA State of the State event. As he outlined the reforms, the premier acknowledged that his government could not claim to have solved the housing crisis. NSW Premier Chris Minns is confronted by a protester at the CEDA address on Wednesday.