MEDIA RELEASES
100 Businesses Call for the Immediate Establishment of the Whole Great Koala National Park
Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson today has joined renowned conservationist, former Executive Director of the Wilderness Society, Alec Marr, along with business leaders Kevin Doye and Lindy Davis, to deliver an open letter from 100 businesses across the NSW Mid-North Coast calling for the immediate establishment...
Youth Justice heading in the wrong direction
Footage of a violent assault against a young person in Reiby Youth Justice Centre has been released to the ABC after a three year battle to suppress its release by the Department of Communities and Justice. In April 2025, the NSW Minns Labor Government extended temporary laws by five years...
Alleged breach of Greater Glider protections in Brother State Forest
The NSW Forestry Corporation has been found allegedly logging in breach of its Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) by logging Greater Glider habitat in Brother State Forest, 50km east of Glen Innes. The IFOA conditions state that a 50-metre radius exclusion zone must be established around Greater Glider den trees...
Glider habitat destroyed under Labor's watch in promised Great Koala National Park
Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson has today joined community and visited Orara East State Forest on Gumbaynggirr Country, where industrial logging is destroying critical habitat for threatened gliders and koalas within the footprint of the long-promised Great Koala National Park. Orara East contains the only intact...
“Stop the destruction” Lismore community rallies to save homes from demolition
Community members and housing advocates gathered in Lismore today to demand an immediate halt to the ongoing demolition of structurally sound homes by the NSW Reconstruction Authority. The rally is the latest expression of growing outrage across the Northern Rivers at what locals are calling a betrayal of the Government’s...
"Labor is demolishing homes during a housing crisis"
The NSW Reconstruction Authority is demolishing homes in Lismore in the middle of a housing crisis. As part of their plans, they are seeking Writs of Vacant Possession from the Supreme Court, so that some occupied homes in Lismore can be made vacant and to have those homes demolished too....
"Forestry Corporation and the EPA are not above the rule of law" High Court decision
The High Court of Australia has today unanimously found that environment groups can sue the NSW Forestry Corporation for illegal logging. The South East Forest Rescue (SEFR) took the Forestry Corporation to the Land and Environment Court (LEC) in 2024 seeking to prevent illegal logging operations by the Corporation, however...
“Disappointment has turned into white hot pain and anger” Great Koala National Park
A new report shows that logging the promised Great Koala National Park is set to destroy more than 12 thousand hectares of koala habitat since the election of the NSW Labor Government in 2023. Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment Sue Higginson said “The failure of the Minns Labor...
Paltry fine for billion dollar coal company after polluting Royal National Park
The Land and Environment Court has fined Peabody Coal just $196,560 of the maximum penalty of $5 million for the spilling of coal sludge into the Royal National Park in 2022 and 2023. The judgement shows that the pollution caused by Peabody's Metropolitan Colliery had significant environmental impacts and caused...
Chlamydiosis discovered in South West Sydney Koalas with no Government announcement
Koalas in one of the few chlamydia free populations in NSW have been found with the disease that causes infertility, blindness and increases susceptibility to dog attack and other threats. The South West Sydney Koala population were discovered to be infected with chlamydiosis in September 2024 and marks a serious...