NEWS
Greens give notice of climate change act in both Houses of NSW Parliament
24 August 2023 - In both Houses of NSW Parliament today, the Greens will give notice of a bill for a Climate Change Act that will legislate a 2035 net zero target and establish a Net Zero Commission to guide and monitor the State’s progress toward the target. The move comes...
Forestry Corporation forced to halt logging in Newry State Forest
22 August 2023 - NSW Forestry Corporation has been forced to give an undertaking to stop logging in Newry State Forest after a successful application to the Land and Environment Court brought today by Gumbaynggirr Elder Uncle Micklo. All logging operations have been halted in the forest until 4pm Friday to...
Enough is enough - Greens renew calls for inquiry into NSW Police
18 August 2023 - Greens NSW MP and spokesperson for justice Sue Higginson has today renewed calls for a parliamentary inquiry into NSW Police following reports of the violent arrest of an 18-year-old First Nations young person with a disability in Taree on Tuesday. The incident is the latest in...
Voters across Australia want bans on native forest logging
17 August 2023 - New research that has been released by the Australia Institute today shows that a majority of voters from all major parties support bans on native forest logging in NSW. The results have been released as Labor’s National Conference begins in Brisbane where more than 300 Labor branches...
Gumbaynggirr Elder violently arrested in Newry State Forest
11 August 2023 - The conflict in Newry State Forest on the Mid-North Coast has further escalated overnight as NSW Police violently arrested and locked up Gumbaynggirr Elder, Bumajin, after he attempted to perform Ceremony in the forest. The arrest is the latest incident in an ongoing conflict brought on by...
Greens welcome overdue changes to feral horse management in Kosciuszko National Park
7 August 2023 - New consultation being undertaken by the NSW Government into the management programs for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are underway and could lead to changes to the 2021 Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan (Management Plan) to allow aerial culling to recommence in NSW...
Forest wars find new battleground in Shallow Crossing State Forest, South East NSW
6 March 2023 - Young Indigenous woman Takesa Frank has today met the day suspended 20m above the ground in a treesit cabled to logging machinery in a bid to halt logging operations in Shallow Crossing State Forest. In late 2019, the Currowan Fire tore through the area and just...
Greens call for right to protest to be enshrined in law ahead of Cherish Kuehlmann bail hearing
1 March 2023 - UNSW educator Cherish Kuehlmann will appear in court today to challenge bail conditions set after she was arrested in the middle of the night by NSW Police last week. Ms Kuehlmann was charged with “aggravated trespass” under section 4B Inclosed Lands Protection Act 1901 - an amendment...
Greens respond to failures of NSW Government to reduce Aboriginal over-representation in out of home care
1 March 2023 - The Ombudsman’s report Aboriginal Outcomes Strategy focus area 2 (out-of-home care) – were the targets achieved? released yesterday reveals that the Department of Communities and Justice failed to reduce Aboriginal representation in out of home care and did not achieve any of its four targets set out...
Greens call for the NSW Government to move faster on expanding the protected area network to reach 30% of land and water by 2030
1 March 2023 - NSW must move faster on protecting land and water within an interconnected actively managed protected area network across at least 30% of the state by 2030. Just over 10% of the land area in NSW is currently included in the protected area network and we have the...