Sydney cemeteries will be undergoing a major management overhaul by the New South Wales (NSW) government much to the disapproval of religious leaders. Five cemetery operators on Crown lands—four government and one catholic—will be consolidated into a single operating entity, OneCrown, following a recommendation by an independent review that warned Crown cemeteries would soon run out of burial space. A spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney told The Epoch Times that they were puzzled as to why NSW Property Minister Melinda Pavey seemed to have “turned against” the church. “After suggesting we would be able to play a major role in the future, she has stopped our construction of two much-needed cemeteries for which we’ve gained hard-fought approvals,” the spokesman said, referring to the halted construction work at Macarthur Memorial Park, a new cemetery with a total of 136,000 planned burial plots. He said their mission, which has continued …