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Inquiry recommends scrapping project to convert the Sydenham to Bankstown Line to metro

9 April, 2020 - The Transport Customer Service inquiry into the Conversion of the Sydenham to Bankstown Line has found that the Metro South West should terminat...

Manyana community gets a response on land clearing

8 April, 2020 - A formal response has been lodged to the petition Greens MP David Shoebridge presented to the NSW Parliament on behalf of the Manyana community ...

Scathing Auditor General’s report

8 April, 2020 - The NSW Auditor General’s report into the failed Local Schools Local Decisions (LSLD) program shows how mismanaged and misdirected this multi-bi...

Frontline workers need legal protection

6 April, 2020 - Urgent legal reforms are needed to ensure frontline workers who contract COVID-19 are covered by workers compensation as new data shows there h...

Greens call for urgent support for non-citizens in Australia

1 April, 2020 - Non-citizens living in Australia have been stranded with no income, no housing and no way to leave the country and governments must urgently ste...

COVID-19 lockdown raises many unanswered questions

31 March, 2020 - Serious questions remain about how the new NSW Public Health Order issued late last night will be applied, delivered and enforced according to ...

Greens call on government to halt planning decisions during COVID-19

30 March, 2020 - Today the Greens are calling for a moratorium on all planning decisions, including the approval of all gas and mining projects, until the gover...

Parliamentary oversight established into the NSW Government’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic

28 March, 2020 - The NSW Parliament's Upper House Public Accountability Committee yesterday established an ongoing inquiry to oversight the Government's managem...

Member for Ballina calls on councils in the Northern Rivers to defer rates

27 March, 2020 - Member for Ballina calls on councils in the Northern Rivers to defer rates Member for Ballina and Greens NSW North Coast Spokesperson, Tamara S...

Premier breaks promise to 325,000 public servants on COVID-19 leave

27 March, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Government to honour its promise and pay up to 20 days special leave to any of the 325,000 NSW public servants wh...

Greens amendments to protect renters pass NSW Parliament

25 March, 2020 - The Greens NSW successfully amended the COVID-19 Emergency Measures Bill in NSW Parliament last night, to enable protections for renters to be ...

Extraordinary new justice measures

24 March, 2020 - The significant measures proposed by the Government in their emergency measures laws to respond to the COVID-19 crisis highlight the need to ha...

Parents and teachers need a plan for school closures and supervision

18 March, 2020 - The NSW Government must immediately develop options for retaining minimal supervision at NSW schools if a decision is made to close schools to ...

Transport bureaucrats admit plan to sell-off all of NSW’s buses

12 March, 2020 - Despite repeated promises from the Transport Minister before and after the election that the government’s bus contract ‘franchising model’ woul...

Schools Local Decisions data shows system-wide underspend of $1.3 billion

6 March, 2020 - Data obtained by the Greens shows $1.3 billion dollars is sitting unspent in school bank accounts under the failing Local Schools Local Decision...