It wasn't all bad!

From the devastating bushfires through to the impacts of COVID-19, 2020 has undoubtedly been a tough year for all of us.

And while most of us are pretty keen for the year to end, it’s worth reflecting on some of the good things that we’ve achieved here in parliament this year with your support.

From winning long overdue protections for victim-survivors of domestic abuse in court and introducing our plan to end poverty with the Universal Wellbeing Payment, all the way to exposing the toxic impacts of coal ash and finally securing ongoing funding for Disability Advocacy Services, 2020 has been a year with a lot of big wins.

We have been honoured to work with so many fantastic advocates and frontline workers to introduce two bills into parliament. Firstly, our Bill to criminalise coercive control and give all victims of domestic abuse protection under the law. And secondly, our Bill to ensure sex workers are free from discrimination and harassment simply for doing their job.

Our parliamentary work has secured reforms to the retirement village sector that will protect residents and ensure stronger transparency and accountability from operators, closed a loophole that allowed drivers of company vehicles to escape penalty for dangerous driving, and celebrated the return of train services to the former Inner West Line.

And each of my Greens colleagues has been just as busy in their portfolio areas. Across our team this has been one of our best years yet – take that 2020!

As always, as we head into 2021 there is so much more to do and we just can’t do it without your ongoing support. So thank you to each and every one of you for all that you do in our struggle for a kinder, fairer world. I hope that you find time to rest, recover and regroup over the holidays.

TAX SUPERPROFITS TO PAY WORKERS MORE

NSW is missing out on tens of billions of dollars. By introducing a progressive coal royalty structure similar to the one in Queensland, we would have raised an extra $20 billion last year.

The NSW Government owns and controls, on behalf of the people of this state, the rights to the minerals and materials that naturally occur in NSW land.

Huge fossil fuel companies are only able to extract and sell these commodities with the consent of the State. It’s time they paid a fair price for that privilege.

The fossil fuel industry has made hundreds of billions of dollars out of their cosy relationship with governments. Granted permission to extract and sell coal, these large multinational fossil fuel corporations pay just over 7% in royalties back to the people of NSW – keeping the rest as mega-profits for themselves. These companies have a track record of taking more than their fair share and leaving communities suffering and stranded with poisoned groundwater, devastated landscapes and a stranded workforce when it suits their business models.

Globally, the hyper-inflation of fossil fuel prices driven by price-gouging opportunism and war profiteering from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered record windfall profits to these already obscenely wealthy corporations. In the last year, NSW coal exports totaled over $70 billion dollars, but the people of NSW will only see about 7 cents in every dollar, or about $6 billion dollars of that amount.

Rather than going toward schools, hospitals and public infrastructure, billions of dollars went into the pockets of multinational mining corporations. The Greens believe there should be more money for schools and hospitals and less for mining billionaires.

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It wasn't all bad!

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