IN THE MEDIA
My Submission to the NSW Flood Inquiry
Preview Below - Click here to read my full submission 2022 NSW Flood Inquiry20 May 2022 Dear Ms O’Kane and Mr Fuller I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the 2022 NSW Flood Inquiry. The recent floods in the Northern Rivers have seriously impacted already highly impacted communities. Coming on the...
Greens MPs support for teachers, nurses and midwives, transport workers
Posted on 28 June 2022 An open letter to the teachers, nurses and midwives, transport workers, and unions taking industrial action this week: As the Greens MPs in NSW Parliament, we are writing to express our unwavering support and solidarity for the industrialactions you are taking this week. While we...
Budget 2022: Long term gains, short term cuts
Media Release: 21 June 2022 The budget handed down today by the NSW Treasurer will support women and families over the long term and there are some solid investments in infrastructure in the Ballina electorate. However, in the short term there is nothing that addresses the acute housing shortage or cost...
Community takes control of Short-Term Holiday Letting in Byron Shire
Media Release - 09 June 2022 Community takes control of Short-Term Holiday Letting in Byron Shire Today the NSW Minister for Planning, Anthony Roberts, announced that Byron Shire Council and the Byron community will now have the power to cap short-term-holiday in the Shire. Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina...
The agriculture revolution is here!
Media Release - 25/02/2022 Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina and Greens NSW Agriculture Spokesperson recently announced a new Greens Agriculture and Rural Land Use Policy. "After extensive consultation with farmers, ecologists and Greens members I can announce our new Agriculture and Rural Land Use Policy. Our policy draws on...
Scathing report - zero funding went to bushfire-devastated Ballina, Blue Mountains or Central Coast
The bushfire-impacted areas of the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Ballina did not receive a single dollar from stage-one funding through the Bushfire Local Economic Recovery packages, a fresh Parliamentary report has found. This is despite those areas respectively suffering bushfire damages of $163 million, $65 million and $4.2 million....
KOALA SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON REAL ACTION
The Federal Government’s move to list the koala as an endangered species is welcome, but much more is needed to ensure the survival of the Australian icon, says Ballina MP Tamara Smith. “Koalas have been listed only as vulnerable for many, many years so while this is progress, it is...
More needed to protect vulnerable people living in residential park communities in NSW
The Member for Ballina says the devil is in the detail in the 48 recommendations of the Statutory Review of the Residential (Land Lease) Communities Act 2013 that was tabled in parliament on Tuesday 30 November. People who live in residential parks – known as ‘residential (land lease) communities ‘can...
FUNDING ANNOUNCED - 2021 COMMUNITY BUILDING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
Tamara Smith MP, Member for Ballina has today announced the electorate of Ballina has secured $400,000 in funding for a total of 18 projects through the NSW Government’s 2021 Community Building Partnership Program. “Whilst we have all endured a very difficult year I am pleased that I can announce funding...
Member for Ballina welcomes lockdown lift
Ballina MP Tamara Smith welcomed the announcement that the Northern Rivers can move out of lockdown this weekend, saying that every resident and business-owner will be greatly relieved by the news “With no cases in our area, giving people the freedom to leave their homes, put their kids back in...