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 tabled in 14 days and hopefully give some much needed transparency...
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...
Media release: TAFE HECS plans raise prospect of increased fees 25 February 2020 The NSW Government proposal to introduce the HECS system for TAFE students raises the very real prospect of significant fee increases, and the risk of high level debt for students doing...
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...
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...
The video shared on the Sniff Off Facebook page appears to show police forcing a drug dog to sit and indicate a person for drugs. The video was taken at Sydney Showground on Sunday evening during the Epik Music festival. Founder of Sniff Off and Greens MP David...
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...
