In the Media
Lights, Camera, Inaction.
Media Release: December 19, 2024Tamara Smith MP
NSW Greens Education spokesperson Adjunct Professor Tamara Smith MP is calling on the Minister for Education to scrap draft changes to HSC Dance, Drama, and Music and go back to the drawing board....
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Ballina Hot Meal Centre Funded for Another Year
Media Release: December 04, 2024Tamara Smith MP
Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina is pleased to announce $25,000 funding support for the Ballina Hot Meal Centre through the NSW Premier’s Discretionary Fund. The Ballina Hot Meal Centre has been serving hot meals...
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Homophobia is not ok…unless you are in a private school!
Media Release: November 16, 2024Tamara Smith MP
NSW Greens Education spokesperson and Adjunct Professor Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina, has today urged the Premier to back in LGBTIQA+ students and teachers in private schools by addressing an inadequacy of the Anti-discrimination...
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Restoring Connectivity for Flood Impacted Communities in Byron Shire
Media Release: November 14, 2024Tamara Smith MP
Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina welcomes the approved release of $52.5 million in additional disaster recovery funding for the desperately needed restoration of Byron Shires flood and landslide impacted roads from the State and...
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60 day cap kicks in today for Byron Shire
Media Release: September 23, 2024Tamara Smith MP
From 23 September the community in Byron Shire is the first in NSW to have a legally enforceable means to regulate holiday letting beyond the State caps. After a decade of campaigning Short Term Rental...
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Increasing pressure on politicians to halt Wallum development
Media Release: March 07, 2024Tamara Smith MP
Last Thursday, Member for Ballina Tamara Smith addressed Wallum protectors outside the gates at 15 Torakina Rd, Brunswick Heads, where the Wallum development is set to take place....
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Member for Ballina calling for submissions into holiday let review
Media Release: February 21, 2024Tamara Smith MP
Tamara Smith MP, Greens Member for Ballina, is calling on her constituents to share their experiences with short-term holiday lets as part of the NSW government’s review into short-term rental accommodation....
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Tamara Smith announces new Wollongbar preschool
Media Release: February 20, 2024Tamara Smith MP
Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina and NSW Greens Early Learning Spokesperson, has welcomed an announcement from the NSW government to build a new public preschool adjacent to Wollongbar public school....
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Member for Ballina Tamara Smith calls for compulsory acquisition of West Byron site
Media Release: February 01, 2019Tamara Smith MP
State Member for Ballina, Tamara Smith MP has called on the Minister for Planning and the Minister for Environment and Heritage to compulsorily acquire the land in West Byron that is currently before the Northern...
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