IN THE MEDIA
Ballina MP secures SES vehicles funding
Media Release3 August 2017 Tamara Smith, Greens Member for Ballina has today secured funding from Emergency Services Minister Troy Grant to maintain State Emergency Services vehicles.
We need to talk about Renewables
Opinion Byron Shire News 3 Aug 2017 I just got back from being a delegate at the PowerGen World Renewable Energy Conference in Cologne, Germany (self-funded). It was both inspiring and an eye opener! It was a three day gathering of European, Chinese, American and Indian policy makers in the...
Supermarkets taking up the Plastic Free July challenge
Media Release 14 July 2017 Greens MP for Ballina, Tamara Smith said she was delighted with the announcement that Woolworths and Coles supermarkets will start to phase out single-use plastic bags in NSW over the next 12 months. “This is a great decision for our environment and I congratulate the...
Plastic free July 2017
4 July 2017 The recent TV program The War on Waste (ABC) was a real eye-opener for many people in Australia about how disposable plastics are polluting our environment. Here in the Ballina - Byron region, while the statistics in the show were still shocking, we were already...
Mental Health Inquiry Extended
Media Release 26 July 2017 Tamara Smith, MP for Ballina today welcomed news from the Public Accounts Committee that it would be extending its deadline for public submissions on its health care inquiry to 31 July 2017. “I was pleased to receive a letter from the chair of the Public...
Crimes Amendment (Intimate Images) Bill 2017
31 May 2017Second Reading Speech On behalf of The Greens, I contribute to the second reading debate of the Crimes Amendment (Intimate Images) Bill 2017. The Greens support the bill, which seeks to amend the Crimes Act 1900 to create specific offences relating to non-consensual recording and distribution of intimate images,...
NSW Greens reject Gonski's poorer cousin
Media Release31 May 2017 NSW Greens Education spokesperson and Member for Ballina Tamara Smith MP is calling on her Federal Greens counterparts in the Senate to reject Malcolm Turnbull’s Gonski 2.0 “The NSW Greens don’t accept that anything less than the original model of needs-based funding proposed by...
National Sorry Day - 20th Anniversary of Bringing Them Home
26 May 2017Speech Today marks a very important anniversary for members of the stolen generations and their families, as it will be 20 years since the "Bringing Them Home" report was tabled in Federal Parliament.
Mullumbimby community win on hospital site future
Media ReleaseMay 10 2017 Greens Member for Ballina Tamara Smith paid tribute today to the community members who have fought for several years to retain the Mullumbimby and District War Memorial Hospital in community control. “Congratulations to the Mullumbimby Hospital Action Group and the community for forcing the government...