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Rozelle Interchange Inquiry Report Finds Local Community Sacrificed for Toll-Road Profits

15 July, 2024 - The long-awaited findings and recommendations from the Parliamentary Inquiry into the disastrous Rozelle Interchange project have been handed do...

The future of e-bikes and e-scooters to go under the microscope with NSW Upper House Inquiry

11 July, 2024 - The future of e-bikes, e-scooters and other similar transport options will go under the microscope as part of a NSW Upper House Committee Inquir...

Anti-protest laws see 21-year-old wrongly thrown in prison

9 July, 2024 - Another young woman in NSW has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for protesting about climate change. 21 year-old Laura Davy was sentenced...

Urgent injunction ordered at Wallum to pause works

5 July, 2024 - On 4 July, the Federal Court granted an injunction that will stop work being undertaken at the Save Wallum site, other than the installation...

Internal police reviews continue to leave women to die

1 July, 2024 - The death of another woman, Sarah Miles, at the hands of a domestic partner in Casino, and why it took police more than an hour to respond to a c...

Targeted logging in future National Park

28 June, 2024 - Analysis undertaken by the Forest Alliance NSW shows forests in the proposed Great Koala National Park are being targeted with logging at a...

Billions of dollars to be handed over to the Catholic Church with new Bill: Greens

19 June, 2024 - The Catholic Church is set to earn billions of dollars from a bill before Parliament this week that will hand it control of a significant share ...

Mixed bag budget

18 June, 2024 - Today as the New South Wales Budget is handed down by the Labor Government, Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina, welcomes some positive outcomes...

Bonded asbestos, low risk until it isn't

14 June, 2024 - The NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer has today, 14 June, released a discussion paper on the management of asbestos in recovered fines and reco...

Forestry Corporation only identifies 27% of required koala trees in the Great Koala National Park

11 June, 2024 - The NSW Forestry Corporation’s operation at Orara East State Forest, near Coffs Harbour, has been reported to the Environment Protection Authori...

TAMARA SMITH MP ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY FUNDING

7 June, 2024 - Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina, today announced $300,000 in funding for a total of 14 projects to be delivered through the Community Buildin...

Auditor General: DCJ is failing

6 June, 2024 - The Audit Office has this week released two reports exposing the shortcomings of the Child Protection System in New South Wales, Safeguarding the...

Greens MP Kobi Shetty Pushes Statewide Helium Balloon Release Ban

6 June, 2024 - Greens MP Kobi Shetty today introduced a bill to ban the release of helium balloons in NSW. The current legislation allows for a release of up to...

Premier's apology welcome but must come with action

6 June, 2024 - Statement attributable to Dr Amanda Cohn, Greens spokesperson for LGBTQIA+: The Greens welcome the Premier’s historic, important and overdue a...