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Local Schools Local Decisions fails with $1.3 billion unspent in school bank accounts

4 November, 2019 - Information obtained in Parliament by the Greens shows that public schools across NSW have $1.3 billion in unspent money. Averaged across the...

The most harmful thing about drugs is that they’re illegal

1 November, 2019 - Calls by the Special Counsel assisting the Ice Inquiry to decriminalise all drugs should be a wakeup call for the Premier and all the evidenc...

More than three quarters of all drug dog searches and two thirds of strip searches find nothing

25 October, 2019 - The NSW police’s personal search program is fundamentally failing - with fresh data provided by the Police Minister to the Greens in the NSW ...

Corporate profits first. Commuters last.

24 October, 2019 - The Liberals sell-off of the three remaining publicly operated bus regions in Sydney spells disaster for affected communities with commuters ...

Greens Bill to protect Central Coast drinking water & stop Wallarah 2 introduced to NSW Parliament

24 October, 2019 - Today, NSW upper house MP and Greens spokesperson for the Central Coast, Abigail Boyd, introduced the Central Coast Drinking Water Catchments...

Greens NSW call for declaration of climate emergency

23 October, 2019 - Greens move in both houses of Parliament for Climate Emergency Declaration Greens NSW MP Cate Faehrmann and Tamara Smith Member for Ballin...

Huge win for Alstonville farmers

23 October, 2019 - Today marked a huge win for the farmers of the Alstonville plateau - developers have formally withdrawn their development application to mine...

Fines aren’t fair but today they’re a little fairer

22 October, 2019 - The Greens NSW have been instrumental into securing amendments this evening to the Government’s fines amendments bill which for the first tim...

Greens call for tough penalties for unregistered lobbying in NSW

22 October, 2019 - Greens NSW corruption spokesperson Jamie Parker MP has called for companies who lobby politicians without registering themselves or their lob...

Greens NSW support press freedom

21 October, 2019 - The Greens NSW support the Right to Know Coalition campaign for the decriminalisation of public interest journalism, and greater protection f...

State government’s silicosis initiatives will fail workers

18 October, 2019 - The initiatives announced today by the State government fail to respond to the dramatic nature of the problem of workers dying from silicosis...

Barilaro’s Dam Stupid Idea: Cate Faehrmann

16 October, 2019 - The Government’s plan to fast-track the approval and construction of dams in Western NSW will do nothing to prevent towns reaching ‘Day-Zero’...

Councils across the state take key leadership role on Climate Emergency

16 October, 2019 - The Local Government NSW annual conference representing 127 councils across NSW yesterday passed a motion declaring a climate emergency, refl...

Tamara Smith MP Commissions artwork for community birthday cards

15 October, 2019 - Tamara Smith MP commissions stunning representation of local landscape for community birthday cards in 2020. Elena Larkin is an artist bas...

Thousands of manufactured stone workers have health scans that miss 40% of silicosis cases

15 October, 2019 - Over 6500 workers, mainly from the the manufactured stone industry, have had their lungs tested for silicosis using technology that fails to ...