by johntwyman | Jul 23, 2014 | News
Greens MP and NSW Spokesperson for Roads, Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC, has commented on reports of a leaked Infrastructure Australia report that describes “hideously inefficient” spending on national roads. The NSW Government is wasting billions of dollars...
by johntwyman | Jul 21, 2014 | News
The Greens NSW spokesperson on mining Jeremy Buckingham today said blame for an up to $21 billion loss to the NSW economy due to a massive gas price hike lay firmly at the feet of multi-national gas companies pursuing coal seam gas for export as LNG. A NSW...
by johntwyman | Jul 16, 2014 | News
The Opal Card privacy policy that allows for the widespread sharing of personal information regarding the movements of Opal card users has been referred by the NSW Greens to the state's Privacy Commissioner as a breach of the Privacy Act. The new power allows a...
by johntwyman | Jul 7, 2014 | News
Responding to TAFE forced into higher education markets (The Australian 7 July 2014), Greens higher education spokesperson Senator Lee Rhiannon said: "The report from the L H Martin Institute highlights the damage that successive Coalition and Labor governments...
by johntwyman | Jul 2, 2014 | News
This is the story that NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli doesn't want you to hear. Late last month the NSW Department of Education and Communities made a quiet but significant change to the student enrolment form for public schools. In 2012 the O'Farrell...
by johntwyman | Jun 24, 2014 | News
The Australian Greens have called on all parties to support the call of the former head of the NSW ICAC for a national anti-corruption body to be set up with the powers of a royal commission (ABC Four Corners http://tinyurl.com/n26uovu) “If Labor...
