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Government must increase early childhood worker wages immediately, say Greens

19 March, 2024 - NSW Greens Spokesperson for Early Childhood, Tamara Smith MP, has reacted to a shocking survey of early childhood workers suggesting that half ...

Strip searching children continues despite Minns’ review into the practice

19 March, 2024 - Strip searching of children by the NSW Police and without guardians present has continued at the same rate as under the former Coalition Govern...

New bail laws will drive more cyclical crime; 500 justice professionals write to Premier Minns

18 March, 2024 - More than 500 legal practitioners, community workers and academics working across the fields of law, criminology, social sciences and Indigenou...

Proactive policing is an abuse of power and racist

18 March, 2024 - New reporting shows that First Nations people are almost 5 times more likely to be targeted for a body search in NSW than non-First Nation...

$45,000 fine for Forestry Corporation for unlawful logging

15 March, 2024 - The NSW Forestry Corporation has been hit again for breaching environmental laws, this time with a $45,000 dollar fine for unlawful logging ope...

Allow Councils to tax and regulate short-term holiday lets: Greens

15 March, 2024 - Greens NSW MPs Jenny Leong and Tamara Smith have today urged the NSW government to tax short-term holiday lets in a joint submissionto the NSW ...

Faruqi reacts to Labor’s decision to reinstate UNRWA funding

15 March, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for International Aid and Global Justice Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to Minister Wong’s announc...

Environmental crimes set to see bigger penalties with a stronger regulator in NSW

14 March, 2024 - The NSW Government is set to introduce stronger penalties for some environmental offences bringing them more in line with current costs, effect...

Go directly to jail; Minns Labor Government to throw more kids in prison

12 March, 2024 - The Minns Labor Government is pushing through changes to bail and criminal laws that will result in more children being trapped in the criminal...

Media release: Government’s proposed doxxing laws as clear as mud

11 March, 2024 - The Albanese Government have released their consultation paper regarding proposed doxxing laws which has only added to the already considerable...

Faruqi calls on Wong to follow Canada, Sweden and restore funding to UNRWA immediately

10 March, 2024 - Greens Deputy Leader and spokesperson for International Aid and Global Justice Senator Mehreen Faruqi, is calling on the Labor government to&nb...

Botany bomb threat arrests

7 March, 2024 - Comments attributable to Sue Higginson MLC, spokesperson for justice in regards to arrest made over bomb threat in Botany. “I really hope thi...

Gomeroi Traditional Owners win appeal against Santos’ Narrabri Pilliga Gas Project

6 March, 2024 - The Federal Court of Australia has today, 6 March 2024, ruled that the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Santos Narrabri Pilliga Gas Project wer...

Greens call for immediate resignation of top Corrections officers in light of damning Astill report released today

6 March, 2024 - The report from an independent inquiry into the sexual assaults committed by former Corrections Officer Wayne Astill against female prisoners at...