A report released today from BOCSAR regarding the NSW Police’s Suspect Target Management Program (STMP) seeks to justify its appalling racial bias against First Nations people by reference to alleged modest reductions in property crime. STMP is a police program that...
Presentation delivered in a webinar by Greens MP David Shoebridge on Friday, 14 August 2020 from 17:30-18:30. The NSW Government’s draft plan is here. Submissions are due by midnight on the 20 August 2020. Download the presentation in: Powerpoint: Crown Lands...
We share the Climate Council’s belief that the way forward is job creation in renewable energy, sustainable public and active transport, organic waste collection and residential retro-fitting. The Greens know that we are facing an unprecedented crisis, the economic...
So many secrets, NSW Treasurer and Premier both caught hiding the truth The Treasurer and the Premier must both step up and tell the truth about their involvement in separate scandals – the ongoing iCare disaster and the $250 million pork barrel known as the...
Climate change is already destroying lives and livelihoods and ecosystems are collapsing. Endless extraction of fossil fuels for private corporate profit is unsustainable for life on this planet. We urgently need a fully-funded transition to a carbon free economy that...
Our explainer of our proposed law to ensure all workers who contract COVID in the course of their employment get workers compensation support and can focus on recovering, not worrying if they will be able to pay their bills. Workers compensation
The NSW Parliament has taken its first step to address the demands for justice arising from the Black Lives Matter movement, by launching a cross party parliamentary inquiry into how deaths in custody are investigated in this state. Critically, the motion which was...
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...
