IN THE MEDIA
Native Title Recognition website
The National Native Title Tribunal is marking the 25th Anniversary of the Recognition of Native Title. As part of the anniversary the Tribunal has set up a website at: www.nativetitle25.gov.au which provides stories, images and videos discussing native title over the last 25 years and the benefits it has supported. The public...
Cape Byron Master Plan
21 March 2017 Consultation on the Cape Byron Preliminary Visitor Master Plan closes next Monday 27 March. Give your feedback on how visitors will experience the Cape Byron area - from nearby beaches to walking and jogging tracks, to parking and getting up to the lighthouse. A solar powered electric...
Why does Malcolm Turnbull want to frack the Northern Rivers?
16 March 2017 NSW Greens have expressed outrage at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s suggestion on ABC News 24 yesterday that we have gas crisis which “has been created by policies of state governments that have locked up gas resources over the years despite many warnings” and have called on him...
Give a Gonski
11 March 2017 Ballina MP and Greens School Education spokesperson Tamara Smith visited the big green Gonski Bus at The Rivers Secondary College – Lismore High School to show support for the AEU NSW Teachers Federation campaign to get the Federal government to commit to Gonski funding. “Gonski funding is...
Northern Rivers Rail Trail
Imagine a solar powered train and a walk/cycle path next to it, running from Byron Bay to Ewingsdale. Imagine that this is the first stage of a much longer rail trail, where walkers and cyclists can share the rail corridor, avoiding car traffic. Tamara Smith today announced she will...
NSW solar households earn less than Victoria
NSW Greens renewable energy spokesperson, Tamara Smith is calling on the NSW government to pay a fair price to households which generate electricity through solar power. Victorian solar households earn 11.3 cents per kWh compared to 4.7 - 6.1 cents per kWh for NSW solar households. “The Greens are calling...
Shark net trial continues its toll on turtles
9 March 2017 Greens MP for Ballina, Tamara Smith, today expressed disappointment at the continuing unnecessary deaths of marine life in shark mesh nets off Ballina and Evans Head. A loggerhead turtle at Lennox Head was among 16 dead individual marine animals killed in the nets being trialled by the...
Steve Posselt acknowledged in Parliament
7 March 2017 The NSW Legislative Council has today passed a motion acknowledging the achievement of local adventurer Steve Posselt and his 1,330km kayak journey down the NSW coast raising awareness of the urgent climate emergency. Steve set off from Ballina in Northern NSW in his kayak on New Year's...
Seniors Festival
SENIORS FESTIVAL Now in its 59th year, NSW Seniors Festival is the largest festival for seniors in the Southern Hemisphere, reaching up to 500,000 seniors each year. If you are over 60, NSW Seniors Festival gives you the chance to make new friends or get together with old ones...
My week in Parliament
17 February 2017 It's been a big first week back in parliament. I spoke on affordable housing and called on the government to legislate that a percentage of all new homes be affordable housing; I spoke on the petition to halt the NSW Commercial Fisheries business structural adjustment program and how it...