- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- Air Quality
- Animal Welfare
- Arts
- Asbestos
- Biodiversity
- Biofuels
- Bushfire Risk Management
- Children and young people
- Climate Change and Energy
- Coal and Coal Seam Gas
- Coastal management
- Coastal Sand mining and extraction
- Disabilities
- Drugs and harm minimisation
- Early Childhood Education
- Education
- Electoral and Funding Reform
- Environment Impact Assessment and Pollution Control
- Estuary
- Firearms
- Forests
- Gaming Machines
- Genetic Engineering in Food and Crops
- Genetically Engineered Organisms in Production of Pharmaceuticals
- Health
- Heritage
- Housing
- Industrial relations
- Industry
- Justice
- Juvenile Justice
- Local Government
- Marine Environment
- Multiculturalism
- National Parks
- Older People
- Planning and Infrastructure
- Public Ownership
- Public Sector Social and Environmental Responsibility
- Recreation and Sport
- Regional Development
- Rural Land Use
- Rural young people
- Sexuality and Gender Identity
- Social Equity
- Tourism
- Transport
- Voluntary Euthanasia
- Waste Elimination
- Water (rural and agricultural)
- Water (urban)
- Wetlands
- Women
- Work
- Worker's Compensation
POLICY SUMMARY
To read the full details of the Greens NSW Asbestos Policy click on the orange download button on the right.
Asbestos is highly toxic, causing a range of lung diseases that are slow to develop but in many cases deadly. The health affects on worker's lives has been devastating.
The Greens NSW will:
- Liaise with and support the Asbestos Disease Foundation of Australia Inc. wherever possible;
- Work towards the establishment of a truly independent Research Institute for Asbestos Diseases;
- Work towards the immediate introduction of a national education program to engage with the appropriate authorities, anti-cancer councils and community groups and warn the Australian people about how to handle the asbestos currently in the environment to prevent further exposure;
- Seek to ensure that buildings constructed before 1982 are checked for the existence of asbestos and if there is asbestos present, ensure it is reported to any prospective purchaser of the property;
- Ensure that the disposal of asbestos waste is safe and without risks to residents and workers;
