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Splendour cancellation biggest warning yet that more support is needed or music festivals will die: Greens

27 March, 2024 - Reports that massively popular Byron music festival Splendour in the Grass has been cancelled just weeks after tickets went on sale is a d...

Tamara Smith MP secures funding for rehabilitation of coastal estuaries

27 March, 2024 - Tamara Smith MP, Greens Member for Ballina, has today announced funding from the NSW government for the rehabilitation of three key coastal est...

Labor’s cruel new plan for people seeking asylum is a desperate and futile attempt to outflank the Coalition

26 March, 2024 - The Albanese Labor Government is continuing its race to the bottom on migration and refugee rights today by rushing through legislation that wi...

Greens welcome ARC Bill calling it “a win for independent research”

21 March, 2024 - Today, the Senate passed the Australian Research Council Amendment (Review Response) Bill 2023 which establishes an ARC board that will decide ...

Australia’s FOI system in continuing crisis, new data shows

20 March, 2024 - Fresh data about the growing backlog in the Commonwealth’s FOI scheme shows a system in continuing crisis that is preventing the public getting...

Government must increase early childhood worker wages immediately, say Greens

19 March, 2024 - NSW Greens Spokesperson for Early Childhood, Tamara Smith MP, has reacted to a shocking survey of early childhood workers suggesting that half ...

Strip searching children continues despite Minns’ review into the practice

19 March, 2024 - Strip searching of children by the NSW Police and without guardians present has continued at the same rate as under the former Coalition Govern...

New bail laws will drive more cyclical crime; 500 justice professionals write to Premier Minns

18 March, 2024 - More than 500 legal practitioners, community workers and academics working across the fields of law, criminology, social sciences and Indigenou...

Proactive policing is an abuse of power and racist

18 March, 2024 - New reporting shows that First Nations people are almost 5 times more likely to be targeted for a body search in NSW than non-First Nation...

$45,000 fine for Forestry Corporation for unlawful logging

15 March, 2024 - The NSW Forestry Corporation has been hit again for breaching environmental laws, this time with a $45,000 dollar fine for unlawful logging ope...

Allow Councils to tax and regulate short-term holiday lets: Greens

15 March, 2024 - Greens NSW MPs Jenny Leong and Tamara Smith have today urged the NSW government to tax short-term holiday lets in a joint submissionto the NSW ...