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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...

Over 15,000 cases of illegal fire activity by landowners ignored by authorities

29 February, 2020 - There have been less than a dozen prosecutions of landowners in the past decade despite over 15,000 incidents of out of control hazard reduc...

Greens Force release of Yarra Bay “Business Case”

28 February, 2020 - On Thursday 27 February the Greens motion calling for the release of the Yarra Bay Business Case, related emails and associated documents wa...

Greens call for immediate moratorium on CSG in NSW following scathing parliamentary report

27 February, 2020 - Today a scathing report was released by the parliamentary inquiry into the CSG industry in NSW detailing how the NSW Government has failed t...

Upper House Inquiry Report into Northern Beaches Hospital finds public-private partnership model a failure

27 February, 2020 - A NSW Upper House Committee Report handed down today into the Operation and Management of the Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended that...

Fixing the $52 million RFS donations mess

26 February, 2020 - The Greens NSW are introducing legislation to ensure the $52 million donated to the Rural Fires Trust during the catastrophic fire season ca...