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School heater report shows need for immediate action from Firth
Tuesday 27 July 2010
The public release of a key scientific report confirming the harmful effects of unflued gas heaters in NSW public schools shows the Keneally government must act immediately to replace the toxic devices before any more children are affected, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Greens working to stop TAFE privatisation
Tuesday 27 July 2010
The public provider of skills training and further education is being undermined by unfair competitive tendering for funding and damaging reductions in state and federal budget, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Greens call for climate future first in balcony clothes drying laws
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Greens MP John Kaye urged NSW Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge to allow all unit and townhouse dwellers to avoid the massive greenhouse gas emissions and costs of electric clothes dryers.
Dungog Council votes against Mayor and Tillegra proposal
Wednesday 21 July 2010
The myth of local community support for Tillegra has been exploded by Dungog Council's overwhelming vote of no confidence in its Mayor, Glenn Wall, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Teachers & special needs students struggling with inadequate support
Wednesday 21 July 2010
A NSW Upper House Inquiry’s findings lays down a challenge to the Keneally government and the Opposition to find more funding for students with disabilities and other special needs, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye
Dungog Council move on Mayor for failure to represent on dam
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Dungog Mayor Glenn Wall should resign for failing to express the Dungog Council's position on Tillegra dam regardless of the numbers at tonight's Council meeting, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Inquiry condemns inadequate funding for students with disabilities
Monday 19 July 2010
A NSW Upper House Inquiry has thrown down the gauntlet to the state and federal governments to provide more money and support for students with disabilities and other special needs in NSW public schools, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Keneally selling out households with power fire sale in China
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Premier Kristina Keneally's trip to China is a desperate attempt to sell the state's electricity assets at bargain basement prices, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Evangelists allowed to establish beachhead in a public school
Wednesday 14 July 2010
Education Minister Verity Firth has allowed aggressively evangelising churches to establish a beachhead in a public high school, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Big food's greenwash won't save Orang-utans frompalm oil death
Monday 12 July 2010
The peak body for Australia's food industry is trying to wash its hands of its role in the destruction of rainforest habitat of the endangered orang-utan, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Department keeps parents in the dark over asbestos risk
Wednesday 07 July 2010
The NSW Department of Education and Training failed in its duty to keep parents and teachers at North Katoomba Public school informed of potential exposure to asbestos, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
NSW Opposition must commit to ethics trial evaluation outcome
Monday 05 July 2010
The Greens today called on Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell to respect the independent evaluation of the ethics pilot program for children who opt out of special religious education.
Wind farms get clean bill of health
Saturday 03 July 2010
Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) today cleared wind farms of accusations of health impacts on nearby residents, according to Greens NSW MP and Energy spokesperson John Kaye.
Hunter Water's Tillegra spin fails to cut through
Thursday 01 July 2010
A survey of Hunter residents shows that the proposed Tillegra Dam is deeply unpopular, with less than a quarter of respondents to the Hunter valley Research Institute poll supporting the $477 million project or believing it should go ahead.
Voluntary 'scores-on-doors' restaurant ratings will leave diners guessing
Wednesday 30 June 2010
The Greens welcomed tomorrow's commencement of a trial of the scores-on-doors restaurant rating program, but have warned gaps in the program could leave diners in the dark about the quality of eateries across the state.
Egg Corp should abandon push for free-range egg con
Monday 28 June 2010
The Greens are calling on the Egg Corporation to abandon their push to introduce standards that would allow chickens kept in cramped and enclosed spaces to have their eggs labelled as 'free range'
Baseload power needs myth goes critical
Monday 28 June 2010
Land and Environment Court documents show that the Keneally government continues to rely on the dangerous and false myth that blackouts and brownouts will occur unless there is an increase in the state's baseload generating capacity.
NSW Parliament swamped by 7,725 anti coal-power petitioners
Thursday 24 June 2010
Petitions signed by 7,725 citizens of NSW calling for the Keneally government to abandon its plans for new coal-fired power stations were tabled in parliament today, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Energy efficiency study highlights failed power policies
Thursday 24 June 2010
A study by the Energy Efficiency Council to be released today will highlight the urgent need to drop plans for new coal-fired power stations, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Treasurer fails to deny $7.6 billion lost if power sell off goes ahead
Wednesday 23 June 2010
NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal refused to deny claims that keeping the state's electricity assets in public hands would be worth at least $7.6 billion to the budget bottom line over the next four years, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
NSW parliament lets loose ugly bigotry
Tuesday 22 June 2010
By voting to allow Christian Democratic Party MP Fred Nile to introduce his burqa ban bill, the NSW Upper House has opened the door to a dangerous and divisive attack on one of NSW's communities, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Macquarie Uni gets second yellow card on private hospital project
Tuesday 22 June 2010
For the second year running the NSW Auditor-General has criticised Macquarie University's failing venture into building and running a private hospital and clinic, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Hunter Water sanitises wetlands recommendations
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Hunter Water rewrote its own wetlands consultant's recommendations in the Tillegra Dam Environmental Assessment Report, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Auditor-General warns of costs of aging Uni staff
Friday 18 June 2010
This week's Auditor-General's report on the state's universities is an indictment of the NSW government's failure to address the risks of an aging academic workforce, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Auditor General says no money for Uni city campus
Wednesday 16 June 2010
The NSW Auditor General has called on Newcastle University to provide a cost-benefit analysis of creating a new $562 million campus in the city centre, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Keneally govt gives remote literacy needs six more months
Wednesday 16 June 2010
A temporary reprieve for the Dalwood Assessment Centre and Palm Ave School is good news for children from rural and remote NSW with literacy problems but the service should be made permanent, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Coalition privatisation agenda is expensive and unnecessary
Thursday 10 June 2010
NSW Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell's plans to raise cash by leasing the ferries and the Kurnell desalination plant will raise costs on households without creating any economic benefits, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
New report shoots hole in Tillegra
Thursday 10 June 2010
Independent research by world-leading UNSW wetlands expert Professor Richard Kingsford (http://bit.ly/TillegraReport) warns that the proposed Tillegra Dam would seriously damage nationally significant wetlands at the mouth of the Hunter River, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Keneally govt cuts corners on student health
Wednesday 09 June 2010
The NSW government is leaving in place 96 percent of the 51,000 unflued gas heaters in public school classrooms in NSW, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Keneally budget abandons public education and unemployed
Wednesday 09 June 2010
NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal has slashed the state's recurrent spending on public schools and TAFE colleges by a shocking $73 million while private schools will receive an $18.6 million boost, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
