Our record our future

The Greens in the NSW Upper House have a strong track record of influencing and improving government policy. The Greens MPs played a key role in stopping the Snowy Hydro sell-off, exposing the dodgy Cross City Tunnel deal and saving the Newcastle rail line.

Re-electing Lee Rhiannon and increasing the number of Greens MPs in the NSW parliament is central to holding the government to account and creating a more just and sustainable NSW.

NSW faces unprecedented economic, environmental and social challenges. If the government’s inertia and arrogance continues then within the next decade climate change will threaten human health and safety, the natural environment will continue to degrade, public services will decline and there will be a dangerous disengagement from democratic politics.

The Greens believe that it does not have to be this way.

• Clean energy technologies and public transport will not only make NSW part of the global effort to avert damaging climate change but will also create a robust and jobs-rich economy.
• Protecting the natural and built environments is a priority for NSW to secure biodiversity, community health and productive agriculture. .
• Re-investing in public education, health, transport and housing is essential to securing our future economic and social well-being .
• Community safety is poorly served by “law and order” auctions that merely increase penalties and compromise civil liberties. The real solution is to address entrenched disadvantage and create a safer and more inclusive NSW.
• There is much that can be done at the state level to frustrate the Howard government’s attack on the rights of working Australians.
• Ending corporate donations is the best way to curtail the undue influence of developers, large banks and the hotel industry. The Greens also want to stop the revolving door between the corporate sector and politicians and senior bureaucrats.