While the energy sector remains in private hands, it will resist any transition away from fossil fuels. Greens MLC Abigail Boyd discusses聽the聽urgent need to take it back into public hands.
Abigail Boyd
New South Wales Greens MP Abigail Boyd听迟辞濒诲 Suzanne James聽that NSW Labor has abandoned its base, ignoring the wave of concern about climate change that obliterated the federal Coalition government.
The NSW Coalition, with the support of NSW Labor and the conservative crossbench, have聽enacted聽laws that effectively ban direct actions. Abigail Boyd describes the anti-democratic push聽to pass these draconian new laws.
Jim McIlroy reports on a snap protest held just a day after the NSW聽Legislative Assembly rushed through laws that make disrupting roads and transport and industrial facilities punishable by up to two years鈥 jail.
Transurban, which manages toll roads including the M2, M5 and WestConnex, is being examined by a New South Wales government inquiry. John Goldberg reports.
Abigail Boyd had a front-row seat to watch聽the wealthy be聽bailed out after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008.聽She warns the same is already happening with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.聽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,聽that losing trend is over.
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