Find your local lower house Greens candidate
for the 2011 NSW state election.
OR Meet our lead Greens candidates:
David Shoebridge MLC
David is the No.1 Upper House candidate for the Greens in the 2011 NSW state election. He is a Greens MP in the NSW Parliament, serving in the State’s Upper House. David’s term commenced on the 7th of September 2010 when he was sworn in as an MP to fill a casual vacancy left by the resignation of Sylvia Hale. David has been preselected by the Greens NSW to lead the party’s Upper House ticket in the March State election.
David’s portfolios as an MP include Planning, Housing, Industrial Relations, Attorney General, Police, Corrective Services and Local Government. Recently David took a strong stance in support of the independence of the Parliament by ensuring that an Upper House inquiry sits to scrutinze the NSW Government’s privatisation of the State’s electricity industry.
Since 2004 David has also been an elected Greens Councillor on Woollahra Council where he has served a term as Deputy Mayor.
Before entering Parliament David worked as a lawyer, spending 6 years as a solicitor and more than 7 years as a barrister. In that time he acted for a broad range of people and organisations with a focus on employment, discrimination, industrial and tort law.
David lives in Sydney with his partner Patricia and their two daughters.
Amongst David’s current campaigns are to put in place a Bill of Rights for NSW, to stand up for the State’s public assets and services, to protect our most productive farmland from the expanding NSW coal industry and to have Part 3A of the State’s Planning Act removed to stop the State Government imposing excessive development on local councils and their residents.
Environmental protection and local planning and development issues - David is campaigning to repeal Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act that gives the planning minister powers to bypass councils and approve a range of developments, ignoring community opinion and reducing environmental and planning standards.
A Bill of Rights for NSW - Australia is one of the few advanced democracies that does not enshrine its citizens’ rights to essential freedoms in a core bill of rights. Without this, we give far freer rein to governments to legislate away our rights.
Housing affordability - Housing affordability, particularly in Sydney, has declined, with people under a great deal of pressure and spending more on accommodation. Everyone should have access to stable, secure and affordable housing.
A fairer justice system - David is working for a more humane justice system that focuses on addressing the causes of crime. Research shows regressive bail laws, more gaols and longer sentences are not the way to make our society safer.
Read more about David Shoebridge | Visit David's blog | Watch David's video.
Jan Barham
Jan Barham is the No.2 Upper House candidate on the Greens NSW Legislative Council ticket. She is in her second term as the popularly elected Greens Mayor of Byron Shire.
Jan has 20 years of regional experience as a grassroots campaigner, working with locals to protect and preserve special places in her region from overdevelopment. She was elected Vice President General of the NSW Local Government Association Executive and has been a member of many state boards and committees, including Ministerial Advisory Council on Women, the Natural Resources Advisory Sub Committee on Coasts and Natural Environment and the Northern Rivers Tourism Board.
Jan proudly lives in Bundjalung Aboriginal country and has worked closely with the Arakwal People since 1994. This has resulted in the first Indigenous Land Use Agreement in NSW and the establishment of the joint Aboriginal/National Parks and Wildlife Service management of the Arakwal National Park
Read more about Jan Barham and watch Jan's video.
Jeremy Buckingham
Jeremy is the No.3 Upper House candidate on the Greens NSW Legislative Council ticket. He serves as a Greens Councillor on Orange City Council and is the Greens NSW rural and regional spokesperson.
Jeremy lives with his partner Sarah and their two school-aged sons. They have made Orange in the central west their home for the last 15 years and love the lifestyle, clean air, great parks and warm community.
In 2004 Jeremy became the first Green elected to a NSW council west of the Great Dividing Range. In 2008 he was again elected for a second term on Orange City Council. He has worked and travelled throughout the central west as a stonemason and has tertiary qualifications in land management and ecological agriculture.
Read more about Jeremy Buckingham.
Fiona Byrne - Marrickville
Fiona Byrne is the Greens candidate for the electorate of Marrickville. Fiona is currently the Mayor of Marrickville Council, the first female Mayor of Marrickville. She has been a Greens Councillor on Marrickville Council since March 2004 and also served as Deputy Mayor for 2 years.
Connection to our community is important in being able to deliver the vision that residents have for the place they live and Fiona strives to ensure Marrickville continues to be a leader in community engagement.
Fiona has lived in the area on and off for much of her life, starting in a bedsit in Newtown with her Irish migrant parents. Fiona has lived and travelled overseas extensively and is currently raising her three daughters in Marrickville's wonderfully diverse community. She joined the Greens to try and contribute positively to the local community where her family would grow up. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University and has worked in book publishing and office administration.
Read more about Fiona Byrne | Join Fiona on Facebook
Jamie Parker - Balmain
Jamie Parker is the Greens candidate for electorate of Balmain. Jamie is currently serving as the Mayor of Leichhardt Council. He was first elected to Leichhardt Council in 1999 and was subsequently re elected in 2004 and 2008.
His family emigrated to Australia from England in 1968 where his father took up employment in the Balmain Ship yards. He has been active in social justice and environmental issues for many years and was elected the NSW President and subsequently the National Environment Officer of the National Union of Students.
He has an undergraduate Economics degree from Macquarie University and Masters Degree with Honours in Political Economy from the University of Sydney. He spent part of his Masters Degree living in Bangkok, Thailand and studied at Thammasat University. When he left university he worked in The Greens Parliamentary office for several years then left to establish his own business. He has also served as the Convener of the NSW Greens.
Jamie is committed to human and cultural rights and has a particular interest in Burma. He has worked for democracy and freedom in Burma for over 20 years working with the Burma Labour Solidarity Organisation in particular. He is a founding member of the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma.
Read more about Jamie Parker | Visit Jamie's election website.