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Greens refer Woolies paper products enviro claim to ACCC
Wednesday 10 October 2007
Woolworths continues to sell Select brand paper products with misleading claims that they are sourced from a company that is environmentally responsible, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Solution to Bass Hill High School land scandal is in Della’s hands
Tuesday 14 August 2007
NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca has the power to resume the land obtained from Bass Hill High school by Al Amanah private college and resolve the scandal, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Stoner’s attack on public schools is wrong and hypocritical
Monday 02 July 2007
NSW Opposition education spokesperson Andrew Stoner scored an own goal with his spray against public schools by inadvertently highlighting the Howard government’s bias to private education, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Macquarie Boys High School students, parents and teachers deserve better treatment
Wednesday 15 August 2007
Greens MP and Education spokesperson John Kaye joined teachers, parents and members of the community to urge the NSW Government to come clean about the future of Macquarie Boys High School.
Iemma govt neglect killing Macquarie Boys High School
Thursday 23 August 2007
The Iemma government has failed to act on suggestions by the staff of Macquarie Boys High and has allowed student numbers at this once popular Parramatta North school to dwindle to unsustainable levels, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Della Bosca admission: more pressure on govt to reclaim Bass High land
Sunday 16 September 2007
NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca has now admitted his Department knew that Bass High school land was being sold to a private school before the sale was finalised.
Della and his mates buckle under to Howard agenda
Tuesday 25 September 2007
NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca has joined his state and territory colleagues in giving in-principle support to Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop’s agenda of performance pay for teachers and ranking of schools by test results, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Clean coal a dangerous distraction
Friday 10 August 2007
The Iemma government should leave speculative experiments with new coal technologies to the mining companies and concentrate on renewable energy and efficiency gains to meet NSW’s electricity needs, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma leads NSW on merry dance over base load power needs
Saturday 04 August 2007
The Owen Inquiry into the need for new base load power stations in NSW is on very shaky grounds, according Greens MP John Kaye.
Wooli residents on front line of climate change
Monday 06 August 2007
The CSIRO report on climate change impacts on Wooli show that residents are on the front line of climate change, according Greens MP John Kaye.
Koperberg is dreaming: new coal generation will blow targets
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Climate Change and Environment Minister Phil Koperberg is misleading himself and the people of NSW if he thinks this state can build a new coal fired power station and still have any hope of meeting his year 2025 greenhouse gas emissions target, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma should listen to the punters on new coal generation
Friday 31 August 2007
Greenpeace’s opinion poll showing that 82% of respondents did not want a new coal-fired power station in NSW should be a warning to the state government that the community has a very good understanding of the climate change impacts of new coal capacity, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma’s gas better than Costa’s coal but both bad for greenhouse targets
Wednesday 01 August 2007
The Greens today welcomed NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s suggestion that gas would be better than coal for a base load option but cautioned that a large base-load gas fired power station also would undermine greenhouse targets.
Electricity sell-off spells greenhouse disaster
Tuesday 04 September 2007
Privatisation of NSW’s electricity retailers or generators would undermine efforts to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to Greens MP John Kaye.
Iemma electricity plans are unnecessary and dangerous
Monday 10 September 2007
The NSW Government is being panicked into an economic and environmental dead end if it proceeds with a new coal-fired power station and privatisation of the electricity industry, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Washing away the base load myth with solar hot water
Monday 10 September 2007
The Greens released their analysis that shows that NSW can avoid the massive cost and greenhouse gas emissions from a new base load power station if electric off-peak water heating is phased out.
Owen Inquiry: Ask a silly question, get a silly answer
Tuesday 11 September 2007
The Owen Inquiry’s recommendation for privatisation of the electricity industry is based on the entirely false proposition that NSW will need new base-load generation by 2013 or 2014, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Privatisation plebiscite needed to stop electricity sell off
Wednesday 12 September 2007
The Iemma government has no mandate to sell the electricity industry and should put the question to the voters of NSW, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Electricity privatisation is bad news for communities and the environment
Wednesday 19 September 2007
Greens NSW MP John Kaye visited towns in the Southern Highlands and South Coast this week to alert communities to the dangers of privatising the electricity industry.
Koperberg breaks ranks on ‘clean coal’ myth and tells the truth
Monday 24 September 2007
The admission by NSW Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg that clean coal is ‘almost an oxymoron’ undermines the NSW government’s continued support for the capture and storage of CO2 from coal burning power stations, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
The oxymoron has landed
Wednesday 26 September 2007
Plans to develop a pilot carbon capture ‘clean coal’ facility at Munmorah Power Station on the NSW Central Coast are nothing but an exercise in propaganda, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Renewables Bill to export jobs
Monday 17 September 2007
A key flaw in the NSW Renewable Energy Target (NRET) will lead to NSW households paying for renewable energy generated in other states, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma should push on with NSW renewable energy target
Monday 24 September 2007
The Howard government’s renewable energy target announced yesterday would deliver a smaller reduction in this state’s greenhouse gas emissions than that proposed by the NSW government, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Howard’s US nuclear push turns up heat on Iemma’s weak laws
Friday 20 July 2007
Greens NSW MP John Kaye said he would be pushing ahead with his legislation to trigger a plebiscite in the event that the federal government tried to impose a nuclear facility on this state.
Plebiscite only way to stop Howard’s nuclear push
Tuesday 21 August 2007
Lake Macquarie could be a principal target for nuclear facilities from a re-elected Howard government. A plebiscite is essential to protecting the safety of the community, according to Greens MP and energy spokesperson John Kaye.
Time for Iemma to test Howard’s nuclear popularity
Friday 07 September 2007
The Greens are calling on Premier Morris Iemma to instruct the NSW State Electoral Office to conduct a nuclear plebiscite in the Prime Minister’s seat of Bennelong on the day of the federal election.
NSW govt’s greenhouse scheme rewarding bad behaviour
Tuesday 14 August 2007
The Iemma government’s claims that their Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (GGAS) is producing massive reductions is in tatters, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Debus was right: NSW greenhouse targets are too little, too late
Thursday 19 July 2007
The NSW government’s decision to renege on former NSW Environment Minister Bob Debus’ promise to review the state’s greenhouse targets is a massive loss of faith with the people of this state, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Greenhouse labelling, carbon pricing & regulation needed to control emissions
Saturday 18 August 2007
Revelations of the importance of greenhouse gas emissions and water usage in producing consumer goods highlight the need for state and federal governments to inform consumers of the consequences of their choices, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
NSW greenhouse scheme chaos requires urgent action
Tuesday 11 September 2007
The Greens are calling on the Iemma government to address the collapse in the carbon price in the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme (GGAS).
Iemma govt jumps ship on battle to stop greenhouse
Saturday 15 September 2007
The NSW government this week has taken three large steps backwards from its supposed commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Greens highlight desalination madness with tank prank
Monday 06 August 2007
Last Saturday the Greens travelled across the Sutherland Shire to highlight the foolishness of the Iemma government's approach to water management and the building the Kurnell desalination plant.
Desal go-ahead brings logic to its knees
Thursday 19 July 2007
The announcement by the NSW Government that construction on Sydney’s massive desalination plant will begin in July defies all logic, Greens MP John Kaye said today.
Desalination plant is going to be dangerous and unnecessary
Sunday 02 September 2007
The cost of suspending the construction contract for the Kurnell desalination plant would be less than the damage done by completing and operating the water facility, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Koperberg should keep water restrictions and abandon desalination plant
Monday 20 August 2007
Water Minister Phil Koperberg’s suggestion that water restrictions should be eased while going ahead with the desalination plant is irresponsible, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
The desalination disaster comes to St George
Thursday 26 April 2007
Greens NSW MP and water utilities spokesperson John Kaye condemned the decision to ram the pipeline from the Kurnell desalination plant through the streets of St George.
Rain in Sydney catchment demonstrates folly of desal
Friday 18 May 2007
A band of rain crossing South-East Australia highlights the recklessness of building a desalination plant in Sydney, according to Greens NSW MP and utilities spokesperson John Kaye. It is not too late abandon the Kurnell project.
Minister’s desal car trip misses point: poisoned Botany Bay & wrecked Sydney suburbs
Friday 25 May 2007
The pipeline to connect the Kurnell desalination plant threatens to poison Botany Bay and devastate local Sydney neighbourhoods, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Sydney downpour highlights foolish desalination decision
Saturday 09 June 2007
Greens NSW MP John Kaye today called for the Iemma government to freeze work on the desalination plant in response to heavy rains in the Sydney basin and the chance of good inflows to the catchment.
Warragamba catchment soaking should put Sydney desal on ice
Sunday 17 June 2007
Strong inflows into Sydney’s water storages increase the risk that the Kurnell desalination plant will be a massive waste of money, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma needs to make desal advice public or lose all credibility
Monday 18 June 2007
Premier Morris Iemma’s claim that the Kurnell desalination plant is a good investment in the future despite heavy rains in the catchment does not stand up to scrutiny, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Desal ‘future-proofing’ is economic stupidity
Thursday 21 June 2007
NSW Water Utilities Minister Nathan Rees is committing the Iemma government to a $2 billion act of economic irresponsibility, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Desal contract announcement is economic negligence
Monday 25 June 2007
Premier Iemma announced the next step in the construction of the Kurnell desalination plant despite the complete absence of credible expert advice that an immediate start is needed, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Costa has no answers over desal
Friday 29 June 2007
The NSW Treasurer Michael Costa twice refused to respond to questions by Greens MP John Kaye about the economic wisdom behind the Kurnell desalination plant.
Community rallies to avert desalination disaster
Wednesday 12 September 2007
Greens MP John Kaye congratulated the Sydney Alliance Against Desalination, a coalition of environment, resident and community groups, for organising a public meeting against the desalination plant at the University of Technology this evening.
Desal contract covers up more than it reveals
Monday 17 September 2007
Blacking out key payment data in the desalination contract means that Sydney water users will never know how much they are paying to the private sector operators when the plant is not needed, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma and Costello need lesson in basic water supply economics
Saturday 22 September 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello’s instance that every capital city must have desalination adds to the risk that Sydney’s plant would be doubled in size if the Howard government is re-elected, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma’s cabinet falls apart over PM’s water takeover
Friday 03 August 2007
NSW Premier Morris Iemma should pull the plug on Prime Minister Howard’s water plan now that one of his senior ministers has broken ranks and argued against it, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Time to name and shame big water hogs
Thursday 19 July 2007
Greens NSW MP John Kaye has called on Sydney Water to release the list of Sydney's biggest water users, after the Sydney Morning Herald revealed that some water companies had increased their water use since the introduction of water restrictions.
Industry & govt squander Sydney households’ water savings
Tuesday 24 July 2007
The hard work put in by Sydney households to reduce water demand is been undermined by the Iemma government’s failure to rein in large industrial consumers, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Greens to raise water restriction loophole in parliament
Sunday 23 September 2007
Wealthy Sydney residents are able to buy their way out of level 3 restrictions by having water from Sydney’s storages delivered in tankers, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Food authority asleep at wheel: lets in dangerous Chinese seafood
Wednesday 04 July 2007
NSW government ministers responsible for Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) should put a rocket under the food regulator after it failed to order comprehensive testing of Chinese seafood for dangerous and banned antibiotics, according to Greens NSW MP and Consumer Affairs spokesperson John Kaye.
Restaurant patrons left to the mercy of weak laws and cash-starved councils
Saturday 12 May 2007
The Greens are calling for urgent action to protect NSW restaurant customers from food poisoning.
Enviro claim on Woolies tissues not worth the plastic it is printed on
Thursday 23 August 2007
Consumers looking for environmentally sensitive paper products are being mislead by the labelling on some Woolworths items, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Woolworths recall shows need for regulation of environmental claims
Tuesday 28 August 2007
Woolworths’ decision to recall its Select brand paper products after environmental claims on the labels were exposed as questionable highlights the failure of self regulation in labelling, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Koperberg digs in deeper on carbon burial spilt
Friday 28 September 2007
Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg’s attempt to explain away his ‘almost oxymoron’ condemnation of ‘clean coal’ earlier this week has highlighted divisions within the Premier Iemma’s cabinet on carbon capture, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Outrageous TAFE fee hike breaks Carr/Iemma govt promise
Friday 28 September 2007
Minister for Education and Training John Della Bosca has broken faith with the TAFE students and working Australians by abandoned his predecessor’s commitment to keep a lid on TAFE fees, according to Greens MP, John Kaye.
CSIRO report turns up heat on new coal power and privatisation
Tuesday 02 October 2007
CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology’s predications of disastrous climate change impacts on Australia should end consideration of a new baseload power station or electricity privatisation, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Rising food prices means economic rethink for NSW
Thursday 04 October 2007
The Greens today called on NSW Treasurer Michael Costa to urgently commence a study of the impact of rising food and fuel prices on the economy of this state.
Rudd’s private school funding back down puts pressure on Iemma
Tuesday 09 October 2007
The Iemma government can no longer ignore the damage being done to public education by the Howard government’s funding of private schools given the Federal Labor’s retreat from any attempt to change the system, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Protest outside Burmese embassy demands troops return to barracks
Friday 28 September 2007
Members of the Burmese community and other supporters of democracy gathered outside the Burmese embassy in Canberra at lunch time today to demand an end to violence against protestors and arbitrary imprisonment, according to the Secretary of the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma, Maung Maung Than.
Burmese community hunger strike enters second day
Wednesday 03 October 2007
Hunger strikers on the steps of the NSW parliament are now into their second day without food to highlight the need for international intervention in Burma. They have the support of the Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma.
Greens call for transfats ban to save lives
Monday 18 September 2006
A Greens' forum today called for Australia to follow Denmark in banning transfats in foods sold in Australia.
Iemma’s challenge is to stop PM’s nuclear push in NSW
Saturday 28 April 2007
Greens NSW MP and energy spokesperson John Kaye today called on Premier Iemma to work with the Greens to strengthen the laws to stop nuclear power generation and uranium enrichment in NSW.
Rudd back down on private school funding robs Iemma govt of last excuse
Saturday 13 October 2007
The Iemma government can no longer ignore the unfairness of the Howard government’s system of funding private schools or the damage it does to public education, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Desal plant squanders green energy opportunities
Monday 15 October 2007
Wind power soaked up by Sydney’s desalination plant will do nothing to reduce this state’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Burraga school should re-open
Tuesday 16 October 2007
The Burraga community’s call for their local school to be re-opened deserves full support, according to Greens MP and education spokesperson, Dr John Kaye MLC.
Kids put at risk by govt failure to stop confusing packaging
Wednesday 17 October 2007
State and federal governments are failing to regulate confectionary packaging that both confuses children and encourages dangerous behaviour, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Desal pipeline planning approval is a done deal
Thursday 18 October 2007
The massive pipeline under Botany Bay linking the Kurnell desalination plant to Sydney Water’s network will inevitably be approved by the Iemma government, regardless of appalling environmental impacts, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Burma sits on the knife edge
Thursday 18 October 2007
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma has entered a new and crucial phase. The Australian Coalition for Democracy in Burma is calling on the Howard government to end the training of police and intelligence officers and join with the international community in stronger sanctions against the military dictatorship.
Greens bill smokes out climate change sceptics
Thursday 18 October 2007
Debate on a Greens NSW bill to take serious action on climate change has flushed out some extraordinary views in NSW Parliament today.
NSW govt funds private school IR bullying of teachers
Tuesday 23 October 2007
The Iemma government should threaten to cut of subsidies to the wealthy private school that has been accused of pressuring its staff into accepting a non-union agreement, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Desal pipeline approved under duress
Tuesday 23 October 2007
The people of Sydney can have no confidence that the Kurnell desalination pipeline under Botany Bay will not wreak havoc with the marine environment, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Costa fails to deny electricity sale negotiations with Chinese govt
Wednesday 24 October 2007
A simple denial from NSW Treasurer Michael Costa would bring to an end the controversy about a secret meeting with the government of China and the sale of this state’s electricity industry, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Cost blow out risk could make desal a salty lemon
Thursday 25 October 2007
Sydney households will end up footing the bill for any increases in electricty and maintenance costs of the Kurnell desalination plant, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Iemma govt failure to expose dirty eateries puts patrons at risk
Monday 29 October 2007
By failing to amend the Food Act to make public the results of food hygiene inspections, the NSW government is compromising public health, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Truancy requires parental support, not punishment
Thursday 08 November 2007
Solving school truancy requires a comprehensive response including investing in programs for children at risk. Criminalising parents will not work, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Bindeez beads recall points to need for stronger consumer protection
Saturday 10 November 2007
The third recall of a Chinese manufactured children’s toy in four months should trigger a review of consumer safety laws, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Households to pay for Iemma’s dodgy desal planning
Monday 12 November 2007
The Iemma government has mishandled the contract process for the Kurnell desalination plant and exposed Sydney households to the risks of a cost blow-out, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Federal government funding needed to save Nirimba campus
Wednesday 14 November 2007
The Howard government’s under-funding of the higher education sector is directly responsible for the closure of the University of Western Sydney’s Nirimba campus, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.