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Another bad turning-rivers-inland project must be rejected
Friday 12 February 2010
The Greens called on NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and Acting Opposition Leader Andrew Stoner to unequivocally reject a private proposal to pump hundreds of gigalitres of water each year from the Tallowa Dam on the Shoalhaven River into inland towns and the Murray-Darling Basin.
Education Minister’s TAFE bashing damages state’s future
Thursday 11 February 2010
TAFE teachers taking strike action today are standing up for the future of the state’s economy, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Feature: Key NSW government agency warns Tillegra Dam risks devastating fish and prawn industries
Tuesday 09 February 2010
The NSW Department of Industry and Investment’s (II-NSW) official submission to the Tillegra Dam environmental assessment process savagely criticised the project, warning that the prawn and fishing industry in the Hunter would be at risk.
Rain swamps case for Sydney's desal - again
Sunday 07 February 2010
Heavy rainfall in Sydney's catchment has washed away the Keneally government's arguments for running the Kurnell desalination plant whenever the city's storages are below 70 percent, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Feature: Government ignored expert advice to put Tillegra on hold
Sunday 07 February 2010
In November 2008 the NSW government was warned of serious flaws in Hunter Water’s case for Tillegra dam by its own senior experts in an official response to a request for advice from Water Minister Phil Costa. The Minister was officially advised by his own department to not renew the directive to the pricing regulator to pursue the dam. This would have put Tillegra on hold. For fifteen months, the Rees and Keneally government continued to express public confidence in Hunter Water despite being told that their inflow and demand predictions were in doubt.
Literacy school closure mess needs urgent resolution
Friday 05 February 2010
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth has failed to stop bureaucrats vandalising a world-leading school and residential health service for rural and remote children with learning difficulties, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Feature: What Julia Gillard's 'My School' website won't tell you
Tuesday 02 February 2010
Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard’s ‘my school’ website fails to reveal state and federal funding of private schools. For many already wealthy private schools, this omission will disguise a multi-million dollar advantage that comes on top of money collected by fees and charges.
Feature: Sydney desal bad decision set to become worse
Tuesday 02 February 2010
Analysis by the Greens shows that the panicked decision by the NSW Labor government to push ahead with a desalination plant at Kurnell before their own strategy indicated it was needed will cost Sydney, Illawarra and Blue Mountains residents and businesses $1.2 billion on top of the cost of the plant over the next decade. Now that it is built, operating the plant when it is not needed is set to boost that figure to $1.6 billion.
Power meters not 'smart' if costs hike for low income households
Monday 01 February 2010
A University of Melbourne study has sounded a warning note for vulnerable low income households in a privatised electricity market, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
'my school' website hides funding inequality
Saturday 30 January 2010
Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard's 'my school' website fails to reveal a multi-million dollar advantage enjoyed by wealthy private schools, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Sydney paper's crude school ranking is damaging and deceptive
Thursday 28 January 2010
The Sydney Morning Herald's simplistic league table that ranks the state's primary and secondary schools is misleading and will undermine educational outcomes, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Business moves in to cash in on kids sitting Gillard’s school tests
Thursday 28 January 2010
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth and her Federal counterpart Julia Gillard are creating a boom in businesses lining up to sell ‘teach to the test’ materials for schools, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
'my school' website is misleading and dangerous
Thursday 28 January 2010
The Greens are calling on NSW Education Minister Verity Firth to warn parents about the misuse of testing data on her federal colleague Julia Gillard's school results website.
Gillard's website will damage all NSW schools
Tuesday 26 January 2010
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth should revisit her decision to hand over school test results after her federal colleague Julia Gillard said that they could be used by parents to attack teachers.
Keneally government must come clean on desal plant usage
Saturday 23 January 2010
The Greens are calling on the NSW Water Minister Phil Costa to explain when the $1.9 billion Kurnell desalination plant will be operated.
Solar bonus rip-off must be fixed
Wednesday 20 January 2010
The Keneally government's failure to guarantee cash payments under the Solar Bonus Scheme is a blow to households and a get-rich-quick racket for electricity retailers, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Threat of league tables drives teachers to test ban
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Teachers have been forced to consider a ban on administering the year 3, 5, 7 and 9 literacy and numeracy tests, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Warm winter, GFC hides Keneally Govt's greenhouse failure
Monday 18 January 2010
The NSW Government can take no credit for a decline in NSW's greenhouse gas emissions, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
NSW govt sacrifices food safety for elderly and sick
Monday 18 January 2010
The NSW government has handed the policing of food safety in aged-care facilities and other high risk food suppliers to private auditors. The health and safety of some of the state's most vulnerable people are being sacrificed to market ideology and pressure from food businesses, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Wran's aluminium sweetheart deal turns sour on NSW taxpayers
Saturday 16 January 2010
NSW taxpayers are facing a $380 million a year financial loss to fund windfall profits for the state's aluminium industry under the Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, thanks to fixed price electricity supply contracts put in place by the Wran government, according to Greens MP John Kaye.
Tillegra Environment Assessment hides risk of $1 bn blow-out
Thursday 14 January 2010
The Keneally government and Hunter Water are hiding the risk that Tillegra dam could double in cost because of the site's complex geological features, with appalling consequences for the state's borrowings and household water bills, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Gillard's $1m cult handout shows need for urgent fix to school funding
Wednesday 13 January 2010
The Greens are calling on Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard to reform funding for private schools after revelations that the Exclusive Brethren has received a taxpayer-funded windfall of over $1 million, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Wealthy private schools exposed on HSC special help rort
Tuesday 12 January 2010
NSW Education Minister Verity Firth should not rely on media exposure to stop wealthy private schools abusing HSC special provisions, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Buck passing leaves babies at risk to dangerous chemical
Monday 11 January 2010
Greens NSW MP John Kaye called on NSW Food Minister Steve Whan to move for an immediate ban on the use of bisphenol-A (BPA) in the coatings of plastic baby bottles.
Solar scheme will cost NSW households just eight cents a day
Monday 04 January 2010
The NSW solar feed in tariff scheme will have a miniscule impact on household power bills compared to the Keneally government's plans to lumber the state with coal powered wires and poles for decades to come, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Private school fee hikes put paid to funding for affordability myth
Monday 04 January 2010
Despite state and federal funding of more than $64.4 million a year, sixteen of NSW's wealthiest private schools have increased their fees by up to 5.8 times the current inflation rate, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Key NSW govt agencies can Tillegra Environment Assessment
Monday 21 December 2009
The NSW government has been further embarrassed by their own agencies' scathing criticism of the Tillegra dam proposal and Hunter Water's Environmental Assessment Report for the $477 million water storage project, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Copenhagen failure turns focus onto state and local governments
Sunday 20 December 2009
The Greens are calling on the Keneally government to abandon plans for two new baseload power stations and heed the call of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for 'sub national' jurisdictions to act on climate change.
HSC special provisions rorts continue
Friday 18 December 2009
Students from the state's wealthiest private schools continue to be over-represented in gaining additional time and other assistance in this year's HSC exams, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Households to pay for government’s coal obsession
Tuesday 15 December 2009
NSW households will be paying up to $893 more per year for electricity by 2013 due to the NSW government's failure to invest in renewable energy and smarter electricity demand management, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Willoughby Public Forum: Clean energy future for NSW
