New figures from Redfern Legal Centre show a听shocking number of children are听being听strip searched by NSW Police. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Protesters called听for solutions to the听housing crisis in a rally听organised by the National Union of Students, Get A Room and the NSW Greens. Jim McIlroy reports.
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As killings continue in Sydney streets, Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann has stepped up her call for the legal regulation of cocaine. Paul Gregoire reports.听
New South Wales Greens MP Abigail Boyd听told Suzanne James听that NSW Labor has abandoned its base, ignoring the wave of concern about climate change that obliterated the federal Coalition government.
Greens MP for Newtown听Jenny听Leong听spoke to听Suzanne James听about how bullying and toxic politics have been听used to suppress democratic outcomes in the ongoing religious freedom bill debate in New South Wales.
Hall Greenland听pays tribute to his听friend and comrade Jack Carnegie, unionist and听founder of the Greens in听New South Wales.
A key focus of The Greens' campaign听in听the City of Sydney听local government elections听is council investment in听affordable and public housing.听Jim McIlroy reports.
Suzanne James听writes that until systemic racial profiling ends,听Black deaths in custody will continue and the 1991 royal commission's recommendations will not be implemented.
While there are serious flaws in Inside the Greens, author Paddy Manning is too good a journalist to suppress vital information. Some of it is explosive.
For instance, during the recent conflicts in the Australian Greens between The Greens NSW and Bob Brown devotees, some in the later camp pushed for the wholesale expulsion of the former.
That was not the only example of such blow-up-the-ship thinking.
The l for the NSW elections on March 23 has Labor and the Coalition neck and neck. A Coalition or Labor minority government dependent on crossbench support is considered to be likely by the pundits.
On top of that, with a plethora of right-wing micro-parties contesting in the upper house, only the tightest preferences between more progressive candidates will stop the right gaining more ground in the Legislative Council (upper house).
The NSW Greens appear to be heading for a split, with the right wing of the party initiating a McCarthyite campaign to purge socialists from its membership.
There were mixed results in the recent Greens NSW Legislative Council preselections. But, that in itself represents a revival in the fortunes of the more radical (or red-ish) Greens who have suffered a series of losses in such ballots over the past two years.听Those losses were welcome news to the self-styled 鈥渕ainstream progressives鈥 (or centrists) who lead the Australian Greens and have long chaffed at the presence of Corbyn-like elements in the Greens NSW. Now, writes former convenor of NSW Greens Hall Greenland,听that losing trend is over.
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