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TAFE HECS plans raise prospect of increased fees

25 February, 2020 - The NSW Government proposal to introduce the HECS system for TAFE students raises the very real prospect of significant fee increases, and t...

Relaxing Water Restrictions Irresponsible

18 February, 2020 - Relaxing Sydney’s water restrictions while the impacts on water quality from runoff from heavy rainfall into the Warragamba dam remain uncer...

Students are not guinea pigs for Latham’s education vanity project

18 February, 2020 - The Greens have today published a dissenting report to the Parliamentary Inquiry into “Measurement and outcome-based funding in New South Wa...

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...