The NSW Department of Housing is planning to build a facility to provide permanent accommodation to around 50 homeless people on Pyrmont Bridge Rd in Camperdown (site pictured on the left). Based on the successful Common Ground model from New York, formerly homeless people will be housed alongside low income key workers in a building [...]
In recent months there has been media attention, and many letters from concerned residents, about the plan by the City of Sydney to build a skate park on a site under the Western Distributor at Millers Point (pictured right). This is a proposal that I wholeheartedly support, and I want to take this opportunity to [...]
Recently, many of my Greens colleagues and myself have received an email that appears to be circulating widely which makes a number of arguments disputing the science of climate change. The arguments are the same ones that climate change deniers have been using for many years and though they can be easily countered with basic [...]
The Greens have the real the prospect of being in the balance of power at the federal level and in the NSW state parliament following elections in the next two years. How will the Greens approach this responsibility and great opportunity and will its approach to economic management be different in the state and federal spheres?
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The removal of eight healthy mature city street trees by Energy Australia is the latest environmental disaster perpetrated under the Department of Planningâs Part 3A madness. It is also at odds with Energy Australiaâs policy statement that it is committed to minimising the environmental impact of its operations.
The Minister for Planning, Kristina Keneally, gave approval [...]