Housing is a human right because everyone needs a safe and secure place to live. Decades of failed housing policies have left us in a housing crisis. To reduce urban sprawl, we...
One of the Newcastle Greens founding principles is our commitment to peace and non-violence. The Greens work towards a peaceful and just world through supporting disarmament, demilitarisation and non-violent forms of conflict...
Our world is facing increasingly complex issues that seem set to increase in severity as they are faced by future generations. Multiple reports demonstrate that mental health, the climate crisis, cost of...
Newcastle is a welcoming, safe and vibrant place embracing diversity and inclusiveness. Our lively public places have been created by establishing and supporting entertainment, cultural festivals, community celebrations and sporting events throughout...
Transport is a key component of a sustainable, fair and liveable city. Responsibility for transport infrastructure and services is shared across different levels of government. Newcastle Greens believe Newcastle City Council must...
Newcastle has attributes that make it an ideal destination – a beautiful harbour with harbour foreshore facilities, beaches, parks, wilderness areas, heritage precincts and buildings and potentially a wealth of Indigenous sites....
Newcastle can become a welcoming, safe and vibrant place through embracing diversity and inclusiveness. Vibrant public places in Newcastle can be created by establishing diverse public events and supporting entertainment in public...
Newcastle Greens believe that Newcastle Council, community groups and organisations, neighbourhoods, households and individuals all have a significant role to play in managing our urban forest. An urban forest is the totality...
Food Security means ensuring reliable access to sufficient affordable, nutritious food for the population. It incorporates a measure of resilience to future disruption or unavailability of critical food supply, at the local...
The Newcastle Greens will work to transform our waste management system to create a circular economy that promotes the reduction of resource use, and then reuses and recycles materials instead of sending...
Newcastle Greens believe that deepening local democracy and rebuilding trust between Newcastle City Council and the community should be a top priority. Without this, we further entrench diminished local democracy, and divisions...
Newcastle is rightly famous for its great surfing beaches and ocean baths in the heart of the city. However, they are under threat from plastic pollution, coastal erosion and rising sea levels....
Social and economic justice is a core principle of The Greens. Newcastle Greens have been at the forefront of making our city a caring, inclusive community. Local government is the sphere of...
Since the 1970s scientists have been clear that carbon emissions are causing global warming and that, if we continue with ‘business as usual’, we will warm the planet by more than 4oC...
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