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Fixing the Housing Crisis
Sign our petition below to send a message to the NSW Premier calling on him to support urgent housing reforms
Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Unfortunately, finding affordable and secure housing in Sydney has never been harder.
After years of pressure from the Greens, housing advocates and the community, we have received the welcome news that NSW Labor has committed to finally ending unfair, no-grounds evictions. This is a really positive step forward to make sure that renters have a safe place to call home, but there is still much more to do to fix this crisis.
Disappointingly, Labor have broken their promise to deliver 30% social, affordable, and universal housing on all public land. Instead, the government suggests that long-term planning reforms and rezonings are the best ways to improve housing affordability.
While new housing supply is part of the solution, the type of new supply is crucial. Expensive new apartments won’t help people who can’t afford the rent now, nor will they make it easier for first-home buyers to get a foot in the door.
The Greens have a plan to fix the housing crisis and ensure everyone has a safe, affordable, and secure place to live, but we need your support to get this done. Will you please send a message to the NSW Premier, calling on him to support these housing reforms?
12 signaturesWe are calling on the NSW Premier to introduce urgent reforms to address the housing crisis including:
- Strengthening the new no-grounds eviction laws
- Increasing rights for renters by introducing minimum enforceable standards for dwellings and allowing pets
- Ensuring affordable housing rents are capped at 30% of a person's income
- Building public housing on public land, including the former WestConnex dive site at Camperdown
- Supporting the phase-out of unfair tax concessions that create an unfair advantage for property investors over renters and first-home buyers including negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts
Sign our petition to send a message to the NSW Premier today
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Ban Single-Use Plastics in NSW
Sign our petition below to call on the NSW Government to ban problematic single-use plastics.
Imagine a living planet, able to thrive without plastic pollution. Together, we can help make this a reality.
For years successive Liberal and Labor Governments have failed to stop plastic pollution. Scientists are now predicting that by 2050, there could be more plastic in our oceans than fish. We urgently need to do more to ensure we are stopping plastic waste from entering our environment, destroying habitats, and killing native wildlife.
The NSW Plastics Plan Next Steps Paper was put out for consultation last year, and disappointingly, no progress has been made on banning the problematic single-use plastics identified in this plan. In August, the NSW Labor Government opposed my bill to ban the release of helium balloons into our environment. Our community wants and deserves better. We cannot let the government continue to kick this issue down the road, we need urgent action to reduce plastic pollution.
15 signaturesWe are calling on the NSW Government to ban problematic single-use plastics including:
- Phasing out the supply of single-use plastic food items including cups, food containers, bread tags, plastic fruit stickers, lollipop sticks, and more
- Phasing out thick plastic bags and plastic produce bags
- Phasing out harmful plastic microbeads in cleaning products
- Phasing out polystyrene food trays and loose-fill packaging
- Phasing out harmful chemicals such as PFAS
- Phasing out the release of helium balloons into the environment
- Introducing design standards on a range of products including washing machines (to filter microplastics from clothes), cigarette filters to prevent plastic from being used, and standards requiring plastic beverage bottles to have tethered lids
SIGN OUR PETITION TO BAN SINGLE-USE PLASTICS TODAY
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Protect the Right to Protest
The right to protest is a fundamental human right and a cornerstone of our democracy. Sign our petition to protect the right to protest.
152 signaturesNSW has a proud history of protest movements that have shaped our society. From the first Mardi Gras parade to the renowned Green Bans protecting green space and heritage across Sydney - much of what we love about living here has been hard-won through protest movements.
Disappointingly, the former Liberal government, with unanimous support from the Labor party introduced draconian anti-protest laws that sought to erode protest rights in NSW and introduce jail time for activists like the Knitting Nannas. The NSW Labor Government has since expanded these undemocratic laws, to further criminalise peaceful protest.
Will you please sign our petition calling on the Labor Government to repeal these anti-protest laws and to protect the right to protest?
Join me in calling on the NSW Premier to:
- Protect the right to protest in NSW
- Repeal the anti-protest laws introduced by both the current Labor Government and the former Liberal Government.
Sign our petition to protect the right to protest.
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Petition: Improve ferry services for our community
Join our campaign to increase ferry services for our community
285 signaturesImagine hopping on a ferry at Annandale or West Balmain and being in the heart of the city within minutes. This was a promise made by the Minns Government, and it's time for them to deliver these services for our community.
With the opening of WestConnex including the Rozelle Interchange, our community has been left with traffic chaos. While I am engaging with the Minister for Roads and Transport for NSW to fix local pinch points, we must also look at more sustainable solutions that will reduce the volume of cars on our roads. We know that polluting toll roads like WestConnex are not the answer.
Investing in a world-class public transport system, including reliable ferry services is an important step in sustainably addressing our traffic congestion problems. Better ferry services will give us options for getting into the city that don't force us into private vehicles and onto congested roads. Unfortunately, the government has yet to announce when our community can expect these vital ferry services.
Will you please add your name to the petition calling on the government to deliver these vital ferry services?
Sign the Petition
To the Minister for Transport
Our community is suffering following the opening of the Rozelle Interchange. We need investment in improved public transport options including ferry services. Please commit to:
- Running additional ferry services from the peninsula to the City
- Returning the West Balmain ferry service immediately
- Extending the Glebe ferry service to Annandale and Pyrmont
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Renters Rights Survey
|Are you a renter with a rental property horror story? The housing market in the Inner West and across Australia is broken. Rents continue to rise at astronomical rates, meanwhile, renters are often left in appalling conditions - dealing with black mould, broken appliances, or worse. Others are left facing unfair evictions - forcing them into a rental market with historically low vacancy rates and unforgiving rents.
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Keep our Glebe Ferry running!
Sign our petition below to show your support for the Glebe Ferry
170 signaturesThe Glebe Ferry provides our community with a beautiful daily commute between the CBD and Blackwattle Bay, and was won thanks to a huge community campaign over many years.
That is why it was so disappointing that the minister did not respond to our calls for a replacement ferry service whilst maintenance works were undertaken recently.We are calling on the Minister for Transport to ensure replacement ferry services are provided in the event of cancellations.
Thank you to the many residents who contacted my office to raise this issue with me. I will keep pushing for world-class public transport in our community.
Sign our petition to show your support for the Glebe Ferry: