Pages tagged "Campaign"
Revitalise Norton Street
Please sign our petition calling on Inner West Council to prioritise the delivery of the Norton Street Masterplan, to help revitalise this beautiful part of Leichhardt. 
Norton Street is so important to our community. There’s already a lot to be proud of, but by working together, we can make it even better.
Inner West Council promised progress on the Norton Street Masterplan during the last financial year. Local residents and businesses were to be given opportunities to provide feedback on draft plans and priorities for the revitalisation of this precinct.
We are now well past that deadline and the promised Masterplan is nowhere to be seen. There’s been no meaningful consultation with our community, and we deserve better.
Inner West Council needs to create a long-term plan with dedicated investment in shared space for local businesses where our community can thrive. They must also commit to giving residents and local businesses a voice in the masterplan process.
Please sign our petition calling on Inner West Council to deliver a fully funded Masterplan to help revitalise Norton Street today.
We call on the Inner West Council to prioritise the delivery of a fully-funded Norton Street Masterplan. This process must include opportunities for meaningful feedback from residents and local businesses.
Fixing the Housing Crisis
Sign our petition below to send a message to the NSW Premier calling on him to support urgent housing reforms 
Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to call home. Unfortunately, finding affordable and secure housing in Sydney has never been harder.
After years of pressure from the Greens, housing advocates and the community, we have received the welcome news that NSW Labor has committed to finally ending unfair, no-grounds evictions. This is a really positive step forward to make sure that renters have a safe place to call home, but there is still much more to do to fix this crisis.
Disappointingly, Labor have broken their promise to deliver 30% social, affordable, and universal housing on all public land. Instead, the government suggests that long-term planning reforms and rezonings are the best ways to improve housing affordability.
While new housing supply is part of the solution, the type of new supply is crucial. Expensive new apartments won’t help people who can’t afford the rent now, nor will they make it easier for first-home buyers to get a foot in the door.
The Greens have a plan to fix the housing crisis and ensure everyone has a safe, affordable, and secure place to live, but we need your support to get this done. Will you please send a message to the NSW Premier, calling on him to support these housing reforms?
We are calling on the NSW Premier to introduce urgent reforms to address the housing crisis including:
- Strengthening the new no-grounds eviction laws
- Increasing rights for renters by introducing minimum enforceable standards for dwellings and allowing pets
- Ensuring affordable housing rents are capped at 30% of a person's income
- Building public housing on public land, including the former WestConnex dive site at Camperdown
- Supporting the phase-out of unfair tax concessions that create an unfair advantage for property investors over renters and first-home buyers including negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts
Protect Our Inner West Tree Canopy
Sign our petition below to call on Inner West Council to protect our local tree canopy. 
Trees make our city more beautiful and liveable. A thriving urban tree canopy gives us clean air, reduces heat and provides critical habitat for wildlife.
An alarming report revealed that 29 hectares of tree canopy was destroyed in the Inner West between 2020 and 2022, equivalent to almost 16 times the size of the SCG.
Disappointingly, the Inner West Council introduced a destructive and unlawful tree policy in 2019, which resulted in a canopy cover of only 16% in the most recent report, far below the city-wide target of 40%.
With your help we can push council to prioritise our living planet.
Please join us in sending a message to the Inner West Council, calling on them to protect and expand our local tree canopy.
We are calling on the Inner West council to commit to:
- Prioritise protecting and expanding tree canopy to reach city-wide targets of 40% by 2030
- Increase compliance checks to ensure replacement trees on private property are being planted
- Release tree canopy data on an annual basis to allow better monitoring of targets
- Develop a street tree masterplan and include a commitment to plant two trees for every tree removed on public land in the Inner West
- Investigate opportunities to provide information and support to residents in maintaining healthy large trees on private properties
Petition: White Bay Community Access
Join our campaign to ensure that local art and culture is at the heart of the future of White Bay

We have a uniquely creative community here in the Inner West. With such a creative and culturally diverse community, we must ensure local art and cultural groups get access to the revitalised cultural site set to open at White Bay Power Station.
This local heritage-listed site is scheduled to open in 2024, with one of the first events to be the 24th Biennale. While we look forward to large and exciting events like this, we must ensure that there is space for our local creative community to thrive.
With community consultation beginning soon, we must make it clear to the government that our community wants access to White Bay, to foster the development of our local arts and culture scene. Will you please add your name to our petition to help ensure our local arts and culture scene is given this opportunity to thrive?
To the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces
The revitalised White Bay Power Station Site is set to open in 2024.
We are calling on the government to ensure local community groups are given access to White Bay, to help foster the development of our local arts and culture scene.
Help move NSW to net zero by 2035
Join our campaign calling on the NSW government to commit to reaching net zero by 2035.

Our community deserves a safe and liveable planet. We deserve a government willing to take ambitious action to urgently tackle the climate emergency.
Disappointingly, the Minns Labor Government passed weak laws that take us backward on climate. The government's net zero plan will prevent NSW reaching net zero emissions until 2050, which will lock in 2 degrees of global heating and cause more extreme weather events, dangerous sea level rise, extinctions and ecosystem collapse, food insecurity, and more.
These targets are even weaker than those set by the former Liberal National Government and will breach the Paris Agreement. It's not good enough.
We are in a climate emergency and we need a government willing to recognise the need for urgent and ambitious action. The Greens will use our numbers in Parliament to demand climate action based on science and on the survival of our living planet, and we need your help. We are calling for:
- Net Zero emissions by 2035
- The replacement of coal and gas with cheap, reliable, renewable energy by 2030
- An immediate end to native forest logging
To the NSW Government:
We need urgent climate action now. We call on you to commit to:
Net zero emissions by 2035, the replacement of coal and gas with renewables by 2030, and an immediate end to native forest logging.
Keep our Glebe Ferry running!
Sign our petition below to show your support for the Glebe Ferry
The Glebe Ferry provides our community with a beautiful daily commute between the CBD and Blackwattle Bay, and was won thanks to a huge community campaign over many years.
That is why it was so disappointing that the minister did not respond to our calls for a replacement ferry service whilst maintenance works were undertaken recently.
Thank you to the many residents who contacted my office to raise this issue with me. I will keep pushing for world-class public transport in our community.
We are calling on the Minister for Transport to ensure replacement ferry services are provided in the event of cancellations.