Response to the raise the age campaign The Greens NSW support raising the age of criminal responsibility. Our policy guides our work in this area and holds that we should raise the age of criminal responsibility to 16. We publicly support the #raisetheage campaign...
Media Release: Report supports release of Celeste Barber’s money to communities 31 July 2020 The Parliamentary Committee inquiring into the proposed law that would allow the Celeste Barber bushfire donations to be expanded to those who most desperately need support...
Serious questions remain about how the new NSW Public Health Order issued late last night will be applied, delivered and enforced according to Greens MPs David Shoebridge and Cate Faehrmann, spokespeople for Justice and Health respectively. Penalties for breaches of...
Media release: Extraordinary new justice measures show need for continued Parliamentary oversight during pandemic The significant measures proposed by the Government in their emergency measures laws to respond to the COVID-19 crisis highlight the need to have...
26 February 2020 Media Release The Greens NSW are introducing legislation to ensure the $52 million donated to the Rural Fires Trust during the catastrophic fire season can be used for the purposes that the generous donors intended, and not just to offset government...
FIRE RECOVERY PAYMENTS: TIMELY, EFFECTIVE AND NECESSARY SUPPORT FOR COMMUNITIES The Greens are calling for an immediate state government commitment to provide every household that has been destroyed by fire with a non-means-tested one-off $10,000 Fire Recovery...
Media Release: Priorities all wrong as NSW Coalition delivers thousands more police but hundreds fewer fire paid fighters Analysis by the Greens NSW shows in the nine years since the Coalition was elected in NSW the number of paid professional firefighters has fallen...
Submissions received into the parliamentary inquiry into funding for independent oversight bodies have all highlighted the secret and unfair funding allocation process. Each agency is facing crippling budget cuts and staff losses. Submissions have been received from...
The findings of the Coronial Inquest into the death of Dunghutti man David Dungay has today recommended no charges or sanctions for the prison officers involved in his death in Long Bay Jail in 2015. It refused to even consider if charges were appropriate. David was...
The Greens NSW have been instrumental into securing amendments to the Government’s fines amendments bill which for the first time recognise that fines aren’t fair unless they are adjusted to the income of the person being fined. The amendment specifies that a fine...
A report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare today has revealed that there is significant overlap between youth who have been under the care of Child Services and Juvenile justice. The report shows that half of children who had been supervised...
Today the New South Wales Upper House voted to require the ICAC to undertake a full investigation of Sports Minister John Sidoti’s property dealings and the rules in place to ensure there is no future conflict between the private interests and public duties of all...
