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Another round of Budget Estimates!

15 September 2022

A crazy three weeks of Budget Estimates have just wrapped up here in NSW Parliament. So, what have we learned?

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Police Minister calls peaceful climate protesters "environmental vandals"

8 September 2022

In Estimates, Abigail confronted the Police Minister about the oppressive and violent police tactics used on peaceful protesters. Read more to find out his response.

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Coalition continues to erode the democratic right to protest

9 August 2022

Abigail tried again to disallow the Coalition's anti-protest laws. The Greens will not stop fighting the Coalition's draconian and anti-democratic anti-protest laws.

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GREENS MPS STAND UNWAVERING IN SUPPORT FOR ALL INDUSTRIAL ACTION

28 June 2022

Abigail, along with every one of her NSW Greens colleagues, wrote an open letter to all teachers, nurses and midwives, transport workers and unions taking industrial action this week in support and...

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Greens MPs write to the Police Minister demanding justice for Blockade Australia

24 June 2022

Today Abigail & Sue wrote to the Police Minister calling for the immediate halt of draconian policing methods being employed against peaceful Blockade Australia climate protesters.

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Greens condemn extraordinary police interrogations of peaceful residents across NSW

24 June 2022

In response to reports of residents across NSW being interrogated by police on their doorsteps, Greens MPs Sue Higginson and Abigail Boyd have today demanded that the Police Minister urgently intervene to...

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Greens will not back down in overturning anti-protest laws

23 June 2022

Abigail attempted to disallow the Roads Amendment (Major Roads) Regulation 2022, but was unsuccessful as a result of strong opposition from Labor & the Coalition.

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Greens order transparency from Gov on draconian anti-protest legislation

22 June 2022

Abigail successfully ordered a call for papers today, demanding the Government tell us what external advice they received in the lead up to their ramming through anti-protest legislation in March.

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Militarised police raid on climate campaigners is draconian police overreach

20 June 2022

Yesterday’s extraordinary armed police raid on a private property in the Blue Mountains to arrest climate campaigners under suspicion of planning a peaceful protest action was an astonishing and brazen overreach of...

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Condemning extraordinary police raid on peaceful climate campaigners

19 June 2022

Greens NSW MP Abigail Boyd has condemned today’s extraordinary police action to raid a property in the Blue Mountains and arrest climate campaigners under suspicion of planning a peaceful protest action.

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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. We need to stop being ripped off by these mega-corporations and instead take this money and use it to invest in our community.

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.

Sign our petition calling on the NSW government to properly tax and redistribute the superprofits of fossil fuel companies, and invest the money in the workers and communities of NSW.

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