Premier Berejiklian must take a stand and immediately remove Ray Williams from her cabinet amid evidence of thousands of dollars in property developer donations being funnelled through the Hawkesbury Club for Liberal party campaigning. Leaked financial records from...
As part of our campaigning to protect wild places (and as a respite from campaigning!) we plan regular bushwalks around NSW with Greens members and supporters. Where possible we have local environmental or Aboriginal heritage experts with us, and we’ll often go...
The Newcastle community, and Newcastle Council, must not be bullied by the Baird Government to support UrbanGrowth’s rezoning plans for the Newcastle rail line. The veiled threat by Transport Minister Andrew Constance that Newcastle Council is “robbing the...
This speech was delivered on 22.09.2016 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. I strongly support the motion moved by my colleague Dr Mehreen Faruqi to establish a select committee to look into what has gone horribly wrong in the approval...
Sydney is one step closer to having an iconic part of its foreshore sacrificed to a gambling tycoon with the Planning Assessment Commission giving James Packer’s Crown Casino project at Barangaroo the tick of approval. Reports are suggesting that the NSW Coalition...
The Government is currently accepting submissions on Draft Hunter Regional Plan and Growing Hunter City Plan , plans that are intended to shape the future of the Hunter region for decades to come. Submissions close on Thursday 24 March and we would encourage you to...
When mining companies in the Upper Hunter have enormous developments approved they are required to put money into a trust for local Aboriginal communities. Unfortunately it seems that the trust fund has been handing out money to mining industry bodies, rather than the...
As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald: Just 26 minutes drive from the CBD lives Mikey, the powerful owl. The fluffy white chick is the latest addition to a family of powerful owls in the Lane Cove National Park, a rare bird. Listed on the vulnerable species...
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO 31 JANUARY 2016 The Baird government has announced plans to bulldoze the historic centres of almost a dozen Sydney Suburbs to make way for rows of high-rise apartment and commercial buildings. They are now accepting submissions on...
The NSW Government has betrayed the Hunter community and the people of NSW by passing a bill that allows them to rip up the rail line connecting Sydney CBD and the heart of Newcastle. The passage of the rail closure bill comes after a hard-fought community campaign...
The Baird government has announced plans to bulldoze the historic centres of almost a dozen Sydney Suburbs to make way for rows of high-rise apartment and commercial buildings. The private-operated Sydney Metro project, which the NSW government has not justified or...
The High Court yesterday McCloy & Ors v State of NSW, in which property developer and Former Mayor of Newcastle was seeking to challenge the validity of state bans on developer donations to political parties. The court supported the bans, finding that developer...
