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Our hospital has already been evacuated twice in three years due to extreme weather events. With climate change driving more frequent and severe disasters and demand for health services continuing to grow, Ballina District Hospital

It’s absolutely vital to report any injured or distressed wildlife as soon as you see them. Native animals rely on timely professional care to have the best possible chance of recovery.  By acting quickly and

The Richmond River is part of a vast, interconnected system of waterways that flow through our region. Following the recent mass fish kill in the Ballina Shire, it’s clear that restoring the Tuckean Swamp is

While Transport for NSW has environmental obligations under the EP&A Act and the EPBC Act 1999, there is no legislation to ensure consistent compliance, and no system in place to collect data on wildlife strikes.

We need homes, not short-term holiday rentals. NSW is in a rental crisis. Sky high rents are forcing people out of their homes and record low vacancy rates mean they have nowhere to go. 

With a new Labor minority government and seven Greens MPs now in the NSW Parliament we have a real opportunity to finally reform this state’s unfair roadside drug testing laws. Fixing this is simple and

After years of capped wages., the best our NSW government could offer our incredible nurses and midwives was a pay rise that wasn't even above the rate of inflation. 

I recently had the opportunity to lodge a motion in parliament calling for an end to so-called “zombie” development applications. “Zombie” DAs are development applications that were approved many years ago but developers only begin

It’s been nearly two years since the floods, and thousands of people across the Northern Rivers region are still waiting for the buybacks, retrofits and raises that their flood-ravaged homes need.  

Recently, Ballina Shire Council made an unprecedented decision that will have dire consequences for our local biodiversity. Now, private landholders and big developers will have the final say over what happens to ecologically sensitive land.