Transport & Infrastructure

Impact of the Western Harbour Tunnel and Beaches Link

1 August 2023

Today Abigail, as Chair of the Public Works Committee, spoke about the Government Response to last year's land acquisition inquiry.

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2023 Policy Initiative - Public Transport for the Regions

19 March 2023

The Greens understand that frequent high-quality transport is essential for the health of local economies and the people in them. Our plan will ensure that all major regional areas have frequent, reliable and...

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2023 Policy Initiative - Public Transport for the Regions

19 March 2023

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2023 Policy Initiative - Public Buses in Public Hands

1 March 2023

Taking back control of our public transport - Public buses in public hands.

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2023 Policy Initiative -Transport 2.0

1 March 2023

Transport 2.0 - Rebooting our public transport system.

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Greens announce plan to revitalise Newcastle transport

9 February 2023

Awabakal and Worimi country: The Greens NSW today launched its plan to revitalise public transport services and jobs in Newcastle, ahead of the March election. The plan includes winding back the privatisation...

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Greens announce plan to reboot public transport in NSW

3 February 2023

Balmain (Gadigal country): The Greens NSW today launched its ‘Rebooting our public transport’ package ahead of the March election laying out a plan for free public transport in NSW, taking bus services...

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Climate con-artists - Coalition’s offset scheme a dangerous deception

27 January 2023

Once again, the Liberal-National Government is all talk and no substance when it comes to taking action on climate change. Launching the scheme, the Liberals said that it will help NSW reach...

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TAHE is a ticking budget time-bomb - Greens recommit to defuse TAHE following Auditor-General report

24 January 2023

Today’s scathing Auditor General’s report into the Design and Implementation of the Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE) lays bare, in forensic detail, the true enormity of the damage that Perrottet’s pet project...

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NSW Taxi industry needs regulating

16 November 2022

Today in Parliament Abigail spoke in support of the Point to Point Transport (Taxis and Hire Vehicles) Amendment Bill 2022, highlighting the need to provide a fairer and compassionate package for taxidrivers.

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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.

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 Labor Government to increase coal royalties to invest in communities.

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