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Greens to chair inquiry into controversial top down planning reform

23 February, 2024 - The NSW Parliament has today established an Inquiry into the highly controversial Transport-Oriented Development State Environment Planning ...

Greens welcome National Student Ombudsman, but it must have teeth

23 February, 2024 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, and Greens Senate leader Larissa Waters welcome the announcement today that educati...

Liberal MP sees no difference between protesters and January 26 Neo-Nazis in insulting Estimates spray

23 February, 2024 - In a galling line of questioning on the fourth day of NSW Budget Estimates, Liberal MP Susan Carter suggested she saw no difference between ...

Greens call on Labor to act on campus sexual violence with urgency

22 February, 2024 - Six years on from the AHRC’s Change the Course report recommendation to set up specialised bodies that tackle sexual violence on campuses, a...

Member for Ballina calling for submissions into holiday let review

21 February, 2024 - Tamara Smith MP, Greens Member for Ballina, is calling on her constituents to share their experiences with short-term holiday lets as p...

Peaceful Pro-Palestine Protest at PMs office at risk of shut down by NSW Police

21 February, 2024 - The NSW Police have today indicated their intention to meet with Families for Palestine, a move the group fear may result in a Move On Direc...

Reinforcing Failure, Labor refuses to make the hard call to cancel the disastrous $45 billion Hunter Frigates

20 February, 2024 - The Albanese Government is reinforcing and rewarding failure with its review of the Australian Navy’s surface fleet, released today.  ...

End live sheep export: Labor government must legislate the date in this term

20 February, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi joined animal advocates in Perth where National Cabinet  me...

Minister cannot say whether $11.5 billion of public land will be sold off or protected from corrupt processes

20 February, 2024 - The NSW Lands Minister, Stephen Kamper, has ducked questions on the first day of NSW Budget Estimates about whether the sale of up to $11.5 ...

Contact tracing asbestos in mulch will fail without a moratorium on moving material

15 February, 2024 - The newly announced Asbestos Taskforce from the NSW Government and Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and their contact tracing program ...

“It should never cost the clinician to actually give a shit” inquiry hears

15 February, 2024 - The final hearing for the mental health inquiry has heard that the current mental health care system is failing domestic and family violence...