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Water Minister Must Come Clean on Sydney’s Water Quality

17 February, 2020 - The Water Minister must come clean as to why Warragamba Dam was temporarily shut down recently, what contaminants caused it to shut down, an...

A quarter of a million personal searches by police to meet arbitrary annual quotas

13 February, 2020 - The NSW Police Force is stopping and searching people almost a quarter of a million times every year to meet arbitrary quotas. Police are al...

Premier must Intervene and Protect Threatened Species Habitat after Fires

13 February, 2020 - The NSW Premier must urgently intervene to ensure remaining threatened species habitat in the state is protected after a list of threatened ...

Water Minister Betrays Downstream Communities for Big Irrigator Mates

12 February, 2020 - The NSW Water Minister Melinda Pavey is so under the thumb of big corporate irrigators that she is prepared to rob downstream communities al...

Inquiry Launched into Air Quality Impacts of Bushfire Smoke and Drought

6 February, 2020 - An NSW Parliamentary Committee will inquire into the health impacts of exposure to poor levels of air quality caused by bushfire smoke and dr...

NSW Greens Climate Protection Bill to Quit Coal

4 February, 2020 - Jenny Leong MP, Greens Member for Newtown today gave notice of a Private Member's Bill in the NSW Legislative Assembly to take the action nee...

Resignation of Senator Richard Di Natale

3 February, 2020 - Co-Convenors Sylvia Hale and Rochelle Flood today expressed their regret on behalf The Greens NSW at Senator Richard Di Natale’s decision to ...

Energy deal not plugged into the climate crisis

31 January, 2020 - A plan between the Federal and NSW Liberal Government to prop up the failing gas industry will increase the use of unsustainable Coal Seam Ga...

Greens blast seismic testing beginning from Monday in Lake Macquarie

31 January, 2020 - From Monday, without proper consultation or notice, Centennial Coal will begin seismic testing and drilling in the basin of Lake Macquarie wi...

Priorities all wrong as NSW Coalition delivers hundreds fewer paid fire fighters

4 January, 2020 - Analysis by the Greens NSW shows in the nine years since the Coalition was elected in NSW the number of paid professional firefighters has bee...

Bill Ryan, Second World War Kokoda Trail veteran, arrested seven times at climate actions, dies at 97

24 December, 2019 - Bill Ryan, a 97 year old veteran of the Second World War Kokoda Campaign, died yesterday. His life and work for climate action and social...

Government punishes head of police watchdog by refusing reappointment

23 December, 2019 - The Berejiklian Government has punished the head of the state’s independent police watchdog by refusing to reappoint him after three years s...

Greens MP arrested for taking part in a peaceful student protest about the bushfires and climate emergency

19 December, 2019 - Greens MP David Shoebridge will be defending the charge against him for participating in a peaceful climate emergency protest outside Kirrib...

NSW Government refuses to commit to secure long-term funding for vital disability advocacy services

19 December, 2019 - The Ageing & Disability Commissioner Report into the ongoing funding of vital independent disability advocacy services was handed down t...

25,000+ feral horses in Kosciuszko demands urgent intervention by the Premier: Greens

16 December, 2019 - A new aerial study revealing that feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park has reached a staggering 25,318 horses demands an urgent i...