Local issues we're working on

As our climate changes, the Northern Rivers region is experiencing more frequent and severe floods — and with that, we’ve seen an increase in major fish kills in the Richmond River. These events are devastating

We need homes, not short-term holiday rentals. NSW is in a rental crisis. Sky high rents are forcing people out of their homes and record low vacancy rates mean they have nowhere to go. 

With a new Labor minority government and seven Greens MPs now in the NSW Parliament we have a real opportunity to finally reform this state’s unfair roadside drug testing laws. Fixing this is simple and

The United Kingdom, New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and Ireland all provide a medicinal defence for testing positive for THC to protect medicinal cannabis patients if they were not impaired and were using the medicine as

We won't solve the chronic shortage of nurses and midwives with an effective pay cut.  It’s never been important to look after the nurses and midwives whokeep us healthy and safe - which is why

After years of capped wages, the best our NSW government could offer our incredible nurses and midwives was a pay rise that wasn't even above the rate of inflation. 

I recently had the opportunity to lodge a motion in parliament calling for an end to so-called “zombie” development applications. “Zombie” DAs are development applications that were approved many years ago but developers only begin

It’s been nearly two years since the floods, and thousands of people across the Northern Rivers region are still waiting for the buybacks, retrofits and raises that their flood-ravaged homes need.  

New South Wales is in a cost-of-living crisis. And yet, the NSW Labor Government is cutting vital cost-of-living relief for seniors.  The Regional Seniors Travel Card has supported over a million seniors living in rural and regional NSW.

Recently, Ballina Shire Council made an unprecedented decision that will have dire consequences for our local biodiversity. Now, private landholders and big developers will have the final say over what happens to ecologically sensitive land.