MEDIA RELEASES
Community and Councillors rally to save Kiwarrak State Forest from Logging
1 March 2024 - Community members from Tinonee have met today with representatives of the Purfleet/Taree Local Aboriginal Land Council and Mid Coast Councillor Dheera Smith at the Kiwarrak Mountain Trail-bike Park to call for an end to the plans for logging in Kiwarrak State Forest and the establishment of a...
Greens call for immediate structural and procedural investigative reform in light of further evidence involving Senior Constable
26 February 2024 - As further information comes to light regarding the double homicide of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies involving a police issued firearm last week, the case for systemic reform is revealed. The Greens are calling for an urgent independent investigation and procedural reform.
Police Commissioner claims access to weapons will be subject to review following double homicide involving Senior Constable
26 February 2024 - In answers to Greens questions, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb committed in Budget Estimates on Friday 23 February that access to firearms by sworn police officers would be part of the review into the double homicide that occurred involving a police issued firearm last week. Commissioner Webb...
Greens NSW Members elect Sue Higginson for NSW Legislative Council casual vacancy
24 February 2024 - Members of The Greens NSW have elected Sue Higginson to fill the Casual Vacancy in the NSW Upper House that will be created when David Shoebridge contests the Federal Election later this year as lead candidate for the Senate.
Liberal MP sees no difference between protesters and January 26 neo-nazis in insulting Estimates spray
23 February 2024 - In a galling line of questioning on the fourth day of NSW Budget Estimates, Liberal MP Susan Carter suggested she saw no difference between the organised neo-Nazis who stormed Sydney trains in balaclavas on January 26 and a public assembly on the Opera House steps calling for...
Greens to chair inquiry into controversial top down planning reform
23 February 2024 - The NSW Parliament has today established an Inquiry into the highly controversial Transport-Oriented Development State Environment Planning Policy (TOD SEPP) as well as the diverse and well located homes program. These changes are part of a series of changes that the State Government is implementing in...
No State plan for emergency housing during disasters: Auditor General finds no systemic improvements since 2022 Northern Rivers floods
22 February 2024 - The NSW Auditor General has today released their Flood Housing Response report along with 7 recommendations to reduce catastrophic housing crises as a result of natural disasters. Among the findings was evidence that; there was no plan for temporary housing at the time of the 2022 floods,...
Lands Minister cannot say whether $11.5 billion of public land will be sold off or protected from corrupt processes
20 February 2024 - The NSW Lands Minister, Stephen Kamper, has ducked questions on the first day of NSW Budget Estimates about whether the sale of up to $11.5 billion in public land would be adequately protected from privatisation and corrupt processes.
Minister inundated, more than a thousand Save Wallum emails sent in 48 hours
16 February 2024 - The NSW Minister for Planning, Paul Scully, has been inundated with more than a thousand emails in the last 48 hours. Concerned residents of NSW are calling for him to exercise his explicit authority to refer the Wallum development at Brunswick Heads to the Federal Government a...
Contact tracing asbestos in mulch will fail without a moratorium on moving material
15 February 2024 - The newly announced Asbestos Taskforce from the NSW Government and Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and their contact tracing program will be overwhelmed by the continued movement of asbestos contaminated material across NSW unless a moratorium is instituted.