Media Release: The war on trees continues in NSW Parliament
Media Release: The war on trees continues in NSW Parliament New laws just passed the Parliament will lead to a further epidemic of land clearing around NSW under the guise of bushfire protection,...
View ArticleMedia Release: $50 million delivered for Green Hydrogen to deliver jobs and...
Media Release: $50 million delivered for Green Hydrogen to deliver jobs and fight climate change The Greens have delivered game changing investment in green hydrogen as part of the shift to renewable...
View ArticleMedia Release: Auditor General confirms ICAC’s funding model threatens...
Media Release 20 October 2020 The Auditor General’s Special Report into ‘The effectiveness of the financial arrangements and management practices in four integrity agencies’ released today, has...
View ArticleMedia release: Discrimination report has little connection to reality
18 September 2020 The Greens have lodged a dissenting report to the report into the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Complaint Handling) Bill 2020 which was handed down today. The final report is an...
View ArticleMedia release: Forcing them to get back to work
Media release: Forcing them to get back to work All non-government parties in the NSW Parliament have succeeded today in forcing the parliament to break the Government’s planned 6 week break and get...
View ArticleInquiry into the high level of First Nations people in custody and oversight...
Inquiry into the high level of First Nations people in custody and oversight and review of deaths in custody Submissions to the Inquiry can be made by this link. Referred by Greens MP David Shoebridge,...
View ArticleMedia release: Greens Force release of Yarra Bay “Business plan”
On Thursday 27 February the Greens motion calling for the release of the Yarra Bay Business Case, related emails and associated documents was successfully passed by the NSW Parliament. These will be...
View ArticleMedia release: Oversight funding controlled by those who are being scrutinised
TLDR: Core funding needs to be set outside of politics at a level that reflects operational requirements and is not subject to Government-imposed efficiency dividends or other cost-saving measures...
View ArticleMedia Release: NSW Upper House passes crucial first laws to address the...
The NSW Upper House yesterday passed Greens amendments to the Modern Slavery Bill that will be the first steps to addressing the exploitative global organ trade. In an Australian first the NSW upper...
View ArticleMedia Release: Greens force government to release business case for selling...
The Liberal National government will be forced to release the business case for its plan to blow up the Powerhouse and move it to Parramatta after being embarrassed in Parliament this morning. A motion...
View ArticleMedia Release: NSW Upper House passes crucial first laws to address the...
The NSW Upper House yesterday passed Greens amendments to the Modern Slavery Bill that will be the first steps to addressing the exploitative global organ trade. In an Australian first the NSW upper...
View ArticleMedia Release: Greens force government to release business case for selling...
The Liberal National government will be forced to release the business case for its plan to blow up the Powerhouse and move it to Parramatta after being embarrassed in Parliament this morning. A motion...
View ArticleMedia Release: Greens manifesto calls for fundamental change in the system
Greens MP David Shoebridge has released a ‘Greens Manifesto’ today calling for fundamental change in the system and a Corbyn style approach to politics. To create a more equal and just society and to...
View ArticleMedia Release: Minister’s Offensive Stolen Generations Comments Condemned in...
Federal Minister David Gillespie’s call for more Aboriginal children to be adopted by non-Aboriginal families is divisive, offensive and a grossly inappropriate argument for a continuing the Stolen...
View ArticleMedia Release: The Liberal government votes to stop young people having a say
Young people got screwed over today by the NSW Liberal government when they voted down a Greens amendment in the NSW Parliament that would have given 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote. Greens MP...
View ArticleMedia Release: Deluge of Planning Documents
Environmental impact assessment improvement project -Department assesses the potential impacts of a proposal for a State significant project before a decision is made by the Minister for Planning or...
View ArticleWorkers Rights
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE ( 02:52 ): Let u s be clear : T he Greens members support the right to strike. I will say it again : W e support the right to strike. That i s why we will always support the right...
View ArticleClimate Change
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE ( 18:31 : 5 ): It is no exaggeration to say that climate change is the biggest political and moral challenge of our time. It is a threat to our natural world, national security and...
View ArticleDeath of Stephen Smith
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE ( 19:42 ): At 3.45 a.m. on 5 October 1995 tragedy struck the small township of Werris Creek, just south of Tamworth. Stephen Smith, known to his friends as Whiffy, was struck and...
View ArticleAbortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2016
Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE ( 12:11 : 2 ): The Abortion Law Reform (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2016 should not be controversial. It is 2017. We have an obligation to give women full control over their...
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