Cross-cultural campaigning workshop
EVENT DETAILS
The Greens Multicultural Committee invites you to a
Cross-cultural campaigning workshop
Saturday 15 June, 2-5 pm
Parramatta City Brass Band Hall, Jubilee Lane, Parramatta
The aims of the workshop are to:
Introducing the Greens NSW Animal Welfare and Protection Working Group!
Introducing the Greens NSW Animal Welfare and Protection Working Group!
Animal welfare and protection is set to be the next big justice movement...
Real growth not GDP
By Senator Christine Milne, Leader of the Australian Greens
How do we build an economic system that serves the needs of people and nature, both for today and for tomorrow?
The economy is a tool; a tool we humans invented – like democracy and politics – to help govern our relationships between each other, and between ourselves and the world we live in. If our economic tools are not getting the outcomes we want, making us happy, safe, healthy, better educated and fulfilled and protecting and preparing our country for an increasingly uncertain future in a world on track to be 4 degrees warmer, then it is time our economic tools changed.
Greens bashing threatens progressive wins
Senator Lee Rhiannon on The Drum
"As commentators pick over the Labor-Greens relationship and the implications of the Melbourne by-election, it is timely to remember that the progressive side of politics share many commitments to address social justice, equality and environmental protection.
Building a more active and united progressive Left voice in Parliament, as well as strong social movements, is the key to getting runs on the board. But right now, unity is in short supply as Labor and the Greens are competing for a number of inner-city seats that were once Labor's heartland."
Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4156564.html
Greens NSW say Thank You to Bob
Bob Brown is retiring from the Senate in June after 16 years.
This is the chance for Greens members and supporters in NSW to say thank you.
Hosted by Senator Lee Rhiannon and Balmain MP Jamie Parker.
Green Bans bus tour with Jack Mundey
EVENT DETAILS
- Contact Details: Call 02 9211 9523 or email senator.rhiannon@aph.gov.au
- Event Dates: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:00am - 5:00pm
- Location: Sydney
Join Jack Mundey and other Greens on a bus tour of key sites saved by the Green Ban movement in the 1970s.
O'Farrell government gags debate on election funding
Greens MP Jamie Parker has today criticised the O'Farrell government for gagging debate on its Election Funding, Expenditure and Disclosures Amendment Bill.
"The government today closed the debate and prevented several members, including myself, from debating this important reform," said Mr Parker.
"This gag undermines the government's claim of being committed to transparency.
"The Greens NSW have campaigned for more than a decade to end all corporate donations to political parties.
Torbay linked to lifting of heritage order on donor's property
Former speaker of the NSW Legislative Assembly Richard Torbay has been directly linked to the lifting of the heritage listing on a property owned by a major campaign donor.
('The developer, the $100k gift and the 'highly effective' MP' Sydney Morning Herald 9 May, p. 1, http://j.mp/smh130509)
Plan would reopen the floodgates to politics for sale in NSW
Allowing political donations to be made by employees and board members of real estate development corporations and tobacco, gambling and alcohol companies would take NSW back to the bad old days of polices determined by cash gifts, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Climate Change-Social Change Conference
EVENT DETAILS
- Contact Details: Fred on 0412 556 527 ccscparramatta@gmail.com
- Event Dates: Sat, 11 May 2013 10:00am
- Venue: Parramatta Town Hall
Climate Change-Social Change Conference
Parramatta Town Hall
11 May 2013
Senator Lee Rhiannon, The Greens
Jess Moore, Stop CSG Illawarra
Jeremy Buckingham, NSW Greens MLC
Simon Butler, Green Left Weekly journalist and others