Imagine hopping on the ferry on a sunny day and bringing your dog with you. 

With so many people in our community owning dogs, it’s time for transport rules to catch up. We’re so fortunate here in Balmain to have great ferry services into the city, but unfortunately, the NSW State Government still won’t allow dogs on ferries unless they’re in a carrier. This restriction leaves many people with dogs reliant on cars to get around.

Traffic congestion is worse than ever since the Rozelle Interchange opened, and we need to do all we can to make it easier for people to use public transport and leave their cars at home. It can be done in a way that guarantees all ferry users are safe and comfortable – by having a separate area for pets.

If you’d like to bring your furry friend on the ferry, please join our campaign.

Please sign our petition calling on the Minister for Transport to allow dogs on ferries. 

Sign our petition to help get dogs on ferries in NSW. 

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. 

Sign our petition to help revitalise Norton Street Leichhardt today. 

Our community has faced years of disruption and noise during the construction of WestConnex. Now, Annandale residents continue to face excessive noise from increased traffic movement from the M8, loud construction vehicle movements for the Western Harbour Tunnel, and noise from extraction fans in the M8 tunnel. 

The current noise wall on Railway Parade has not been properly maintained and is no longer fit for purpose. This wall is decades old and urgently needs to be replaced and the height of the wall needs to be increased.  

We are calling on the Minister for Roads to prioritise replacing the noise wall to better protect residents on Railway Parade and Pritchard Street from excessive vehicle noise. 

After years of noise and disruptions due to WestConnex, our community deserves better. 

Sign our petition to replace the noise wall and protect local residents from excessive traffic noise today. 

We are calling on the NSW Government to ban problematic single-use plastics including: 

1. Phasing out the supply of single-use plastic food items including cups, food containers, bread tags, plastic fruit stickers, lollipop sticks, and more 
2. Phasing out thick plastic bags and plastic produce bags
3. Phasing out harmful plastic microbeads in cleaning products
4. Phasing out polystyrene food trays and loose-fill packaging 
5. Phasing out harmful chemicals such as PFAS 
6. Phasing out the release of helium balloons into the environment 
7. Introducing design standards on a range of products including washing machines (to filter microplastics from clothes), cigarette filters to prevent plastic from being used, and standards requiring plastic beverage bottles to have tethered lids
   

SIGN OUR PETITION TO BAN SINGLE-USE PLASTICS TODAY

We are calling on the NSW Premier to introduce urgent reforms to address the housing crisis including: 

1. Strengthening the new no-grounds eviction laws
2. Increasing rights for renters by introducing minimum enforceable standards for dwellings and allowing pets 
3. Ensuring affordable housing rents are capped at 30% of a person's income 
4. Building public housing on public land, including the former WestConnex dive site at Camperdown
5. 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   

Sign our petition to send a message to the NSW Premier today

We are calling on the Inner West council to commit to: 

1. Prioritise protecting and expanding tree canopy to reach city-wide targets of 40% by 2030 
2. Increase compliance checks to ensure replacement trees on private property are being planted 
3. Release tree canopy data on an annual basis to allow better monitoring of targets
4. Develop a street tree masterplan and include a commitment to plant two trees for every tree removed on public land in the Inner West
5. Investigate opportunities to provide information and support to residents in maintaining healthy large trees on private properties 

Sign our petition to call on Inner West Council to protect our tree canopy today

NSW has a proud history of protest movements that have shaped our society. From the first Mardi Gras parade to the renowned Green Bans protecting green space and heritage across Sydney - much of what we love about living here has been hard-won through protest movements.

Disappointingly, the former Liberal government, with unanimous support from the Labor party introduced draconian anti-protest laws that sought to erode protest rights in NSW and introduce jail time for activists like the Knitting Nannas. The NSW Labor Government has since expanded these undemocratic laws, to further criminalise peaceful protest.

Will you please sign our petition calling on the Labor Government to repeal these anti-protest laws and to protect the right to protest? 

Sign our petition to protect the right to protest. 

Our community deserves safe and accessible streets prioritising pedestrian safety, especially around parks, playgrounds, and schools attended by families and young children.

But all too often this is not the case. The intersection of Mary Street and Perry Street in Lilyfield urgently needs a crossing to make it a safer place to walk.

We're calling on Inner West Council to prioritise pedestrian safety at this intersection and install a raised, clearly marked pedestrian crossing at the top of Mary Street.

With so many young families using this intersection daily on their way to and from Orange Grove Public School, Inner West Council need to make fixing this crossing a priority.

Sign our petition to tell Inner West Council to prioritise pedestrian safety at this Intersection in Lilyfield. Upgrades including a raised, clearly marked pedestrian crossing are urgently needed. 

Everyone deserves a safe and secure place to call home. Unfortunately, finding affordable and secure housing in Sydney is harder than ever. 

The NSW Labor Government has announced plans to develop 100 new homes on the former WestConnex dive site on Parramatta Road in Camperdown. Disappointingly, they have made no provision for public or affordable housing. 

This is a clear failure to deliver on an election commitment to guarantee a minimum of 30% affordable housing on government-owned land. 

With no commitment for public or affordable housing on the Camperdown site, this amounts to the wholesale privatisation of public land. We are in the midst of the worst housing crisis Sydney has ever seen, and failing to use public land to deliver public and affordable housing is unacceptable and will fail the most vulnerable in our community.  

Sign our petition to tell the Minister for Housing that the public land in Camperdown should be used for public and affordable housing, not private development