Parramatta Greens

The government has been giving money in various forms to tax payers to try and stimulate the economy. The Greens believe a more sustainable way to spend the money is on the local renewable energy industry. Some ways include Read more

NSW Greens MP and Prisons Spokesperson Sylvia Hale has joined prison officers and prisoners’ rights groups in opposing state government proposals to privatise the state’s prisons. “Introducing the profit motive into the prisons system is not the way we should be proceeding,” said Ms Hale. “Prisoners are removed from society for the purposes of deterrence and rehabilitation, not to be fodder for corporate profit.” More

Oatlands Golf Course have made a Development Application to double the size of the dam on the Vineyard Creek. It is being opposed by residents and the Vineyard Creek Reserve Committee. The proposal wants to exploit a natural resource at community expense while potentially constricting the small amount of water that might flow down the creek. While the proposal requires deepening of the dam, the water in the dam even in its current form rarely fills up making the proposed deepening of little real benefit. Please contact your local councillor to vote against the proposal.

NSW approves V8 Street Car racing in Olympic Park over community objections. Key among the issues is the permanent damage to the park and to its world class reputation as an ecologically sustainable precinct. The Govt. plans to waste upto $90 million on this event over 5 years. Problems include the loss of 489 trees with upto 1000 tress under potential threat, demolishing and rebuilding of 3.5 km of road and causing unnecessary disruptions and road closures for upto 10 weeks.

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Join your concerned neighbours in a walk for renewable energy and a safe climate future for our children. With vital decisions being made this year, please join the Walk Against Warming to ensure the Australian Government supports strong, urgent action and justice for developing nations affected by global warming. Look out for the Greens stall to pick up a placard. Sydney Walk: www.walkagainstwarming.org   Parramatta Walk : http://www.parracan.org/page4.htm

The nation’s leaders are abandoning public vocational education and training without community consultation. Under a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) proposal, the TAFE system would be starved of funds and eventually replaced by a series of private providers, increasingly funded by fees through HECS-like loans, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye. Read more here on John Kaye’s web site

Voters respond to Greens anti-donation and sustainable development campaigns by a more than 15 % increase in Greens vote in some council areas. Read More

Key points from Minister Wong’s Green Paper’s include Free permits for aluminium sector out to 2020, Protection for coal generators, Subsidising geosequestration and the inclusion of Transport in the Trading Scheme, but take it away by removing excise tax. Read more here

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The Parramatta Greens oppose the plans of the NSW Government to sell off the state owned electricity retailers and the lease out of the electricty generators. In light of the serious impacts of climate change, the move to privatise the electricity industry could have disastrous consequences. More