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Targeted logging in future National Park

28 June, 2024 - Analysis undertaken by the Forest Alliance NSW shows forests in the proposed Great Koala National Park are being targeted with logging at a...

Billions of dollars to be handed over to the Catholic Church with new Bill: Greens

19 June, 2024 - The Catholic Church is set to earn billions of dollars from a bill before Parliament this week that will hand it control of a significant share ...

Mixed bag budget

18 June, 2024 - Today as the New South Wales Budget is handed down by the Labor Government, Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina, welcomes some positive outcomes...

Bonded asbestos, low risk until it isn't

14 June, 2024 - The NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer has today, 14 June, released a discussion paper on the management of asbestos in recovered fines and reco...

Forestry Corporation only identifies 27% of required koala trees in the Great Koala National Park

11 June, 2024 - The NSW Forestry Corporation’s operation at Orara East State Forest, near Coffs Harbour, has been reported to the Environment Protection Authori...

TAMARA SMITH MP ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY FUNDING

7 June, 2024 - Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina, today announced $300,000 in funding for a total of 14 projects to be delivered through the Community Buildin...

Auditor General: DCJ is failing

6 June, 2024 - The Audit Office has this week released two reports exposing the shortcomings of the Child Protection System in New South Wales, Safeguarding the...

Greens MP Kobi Shetty Pushes Statewide Helium Balloon Release Ban

6 June, 2024 - Greens MP Kobi Shetty today introduced a bill to ban the release of helium balloons in NSW. The current legislation allows for a release of up to...

Premier's apology welcome but must come with action

6 June, 2024 - Statement attributable to Dr Amanda Cohn, Greens spokesperson for LGBTQIA+: The Greens welcome the Premier’s historic, important and overdue a...

Environmental failure marks World Environment Day in NSW

5 June, 2024 - Native forest logging, land clearing, ineffective biodiversity laws, inappropriate development in ecologically sensitive areas and failing emissi...

Greens MP Kobi Shetty calls for state and federal funding for Leichhardt Oval

5 June, 2024 - Last night at an Extraordinary Meeting, Inner West Council committed to allocating $10 Million for the upgrade of Leichhardt Oval. While Coun...

Greens-led mental health inquiry hands down final report

4 June, 2024 - The NSW inquiry into community and outpatient mental health care has handed down its report today, making a suite of recommendations to address i...

Greens comment on Government changes to planning reforms

29 May, 2024 - The NSW Greens are calling for the Minns Labor Government to keep working on their plans to increase density in appropriate areas following the a...

Rice monopoly stranglehold to be released by mid 2025

28 May, 2024 - The NSW Government’s announcement that they will end rice vesting for the Northern Rivers Rice Growers on 1 September 2024 and the whole of NSW f...