The Liberal government’s plans to freeze workers’ wages will hit a roadblock in the NSW Upper House with plans by the Greens and the crossbench to reverse any Government pay freeze. The Greens will be moving a disallowance motion to reverse any pay freeze that the...
Every mega watt of new nuclear power costs at least six times that of solar or wind power. Every single nuclear power plant under construction is over budget and over time. Decades of uranium mining, nuclear testing, and nuclear waste dumping have contaminated some of...
The NSW Greens have successfully amended emergency government legislation in NSW parliament to extend workers compensation benefits to cover COVID-19. The amendment to the legislation passed the Upper House today, and grants cover for full time, part time, contract...
The NSW Liberal government’s announcement of a one off energy rebate for households under financial pressure due to COVID-19 does nothing in the long term to address energy poverty and the rising energy bills people are facing while they are self isolating at...
Urgent legal reforms are needed to ensure frontline workers who contract covid-19 are covered by workers compensation as new data shows there have already been 111 COVID-19 related compensation claims in NSW and 11 have been rejected. No claims have been identified as...
A NSW government inquiry dominated by the right-wing of NSW politics has recommended overturning the ban on nuclear power in NSW. These recommendations are dangerous for our climate, dangerous for our land and water and dangerous for the state and household budgets,...
Some clips from policing activity at the Lost City Sydney Music Festival – an under 18s Festival The individual clips are here: Lost City Sydney – Clip 1 Lost City Sydney – Clip 2 Lost City Sydney – Clip 3
We recently travelled around NSW visiting bushfire affected towns. One of the most distressing things raised with us by communities still reeling from the damage done by the fires is the planned removal of remaining intact forest in their area for development. Often...
The office of David Shoebridge has today released our proposal for significant reform to police search powers in NSW. Strip searches and drug dog searches are two interrelated programs by the NSW Police Force primarily intended to target drug possession and use. We...
Work must immediately halt on the destructive and poorly-planned Windsor Bridge replacement project given the damning findings of a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry. With construction works currently underway that will destroy Australia’s oldest town square and oldest...
A public land giveaway that occurred in near-secret has been referred to ICAC by Greens MP David Shoebridge. The sale raises grave concerns about the integrity of the remainder of the $9 billion plus in public lands sales that have occurred under the NSW Coalition...
