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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...

Manyana Tree Clearing Petition shows power of local community

26 February, 2020 - A petition presented to the NSW Parliament today with over 1,500 signatures shows the power of the small community of Manyana in the Shoalha...

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...