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Greens introduce Bill to Ban Fossil Fuel Advertising

20 September, 2022 - Greens NSW Upper House MP Sue Higginson has today given notice of a bill set to ban fossil fuel advertising in New South Wales. The bill en...

The NSW Government fails to listen to the community on public native forest logging

15 September, 2022 - The NSW Government response to the 21 thousand signatories of the petition to end native forest logging has been released today and has fai...

Youth Justice reveals cost of imprisoning children $713 940 per child per year

31 August, 2022 - Youth Justice yesterday revealed in Budget Estimates hearings that the cost of holding youth in detention in NSW has risen to $1956 per child ...

Scathing report by the Auditor General lays bare the failures of the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme

30 August, 2022 - The Department for Planning and Environment has fundamentally failed to design or implement an effective scheme for biodiversity offsets accor...

NSW renters need a rent freeze

25 August, 2022 - Greens NSW MP Jenny Leong has backed federal Greens calls and urged the NSW Government to implement an emergency rent freeze to combat skyrock...

Attorney General Admits No Plan to Raise the Age of Criminal Responsibility

23 August, 2022 - Attorney General Mark Speakman has yesterday in Budget Estimates revealed the NSW Coalition Government will not be Raising the Age of criminal...

Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan Will Not Protect Koalas

17 August, 2022 - The Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan will not protect koalas or other threatened species, says Cate Faehrmann, Greens MP and planning spokes...

Greens MP Jenny Leong has commented on the release of the Broderick report into bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct at NSW Parliament.

12 August, 2022 - Jenny Leong MP said: "This is a powerful and pivotal report that has lifted the lid on the toxic, unsafe and sexist culture in NSW Parliame...

Greens push NSW to lead the world in modernising animal welfare laws to recognise animal sentience

12 August, 2022 - The Greens have introduced a Bill to NSW Parliament that, if passed, would see animal sentience explicitly recognised in our animal welfare la...

Lismore Mayor's position is untenable following his calls for Council to be sacked

12 July, 2022 - Lismore Mayor Steve Krieg last night called for his own Council to be sacked and replaced with an autocratic administrator following the catastr...

Fundamental democratic right to protest under threat in NSW

11 July, 2022 - Civil society and human rights organisations will assemble today at Hyde Park ahead of bail hearings for the Blockade Australia activists who we...

Greater Glider uplisted to endangered status just 6 years after it was declared as vulnerable

5 July, 2022 - The federal Environment Minister has today listed the Greater Glider as endangeredunder the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation ...

Vegetation changes in NSW point to an out of control land clearing agenda in NSW

30 June, 2022 - Alarming new data shows that the NSW Government has lost control of land clearing in NSW with the annual clearing rates up 47% since the introdu...

Greens condemn extraordinary police interrogations of peaceful residents across NSW

24 June, 2022 - In response to reports of residents across NSW being interrogated by police on their doorsteps, Greens MPs Sue Higginson and Abigail Boyd have t...

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