This anti-poverty week, as in past years, we’ll see politicians from the major parties attending charity fundraisers and having their photographs taken at soup kitchens, conveniently forgetting, it seems, that it was their policies that led to the poverty crisis many people are currently experiencing. 

Home owners should be given the green light to let out spare rooms for cash on Airbnb and other "sharing economy" platforms without risking hefty fines from local councils, a report to be handed to the Baird government concludes.

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We've revealed that the Independent Commission Against Corruption sought $2.1 million in extra funding but was given just a quarter of that, despite Premier Mike Baird telling Parliament "if ICAC needs additional money we would be happy to provide it".

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Jamie Parker MP, Greens spokesperson on Urban Growth, has joined Parramatta residents calling on the State Government to give local residents a genuine chance to have their say on the Heritage Precinct development.

In Parliament today the Minister said the ferry routes are 'under serious consideration', and 'make sense'.
Please, if you haven't done so already, sign our Glebe Ferry petition!

I was honoured to speak outside Parliament House on 21/9/16 about the importance of supporting our public servants, and against the move toward privatisation in its many guises.

Today we had a breakthrough. 

The CEO of Ausgrid has now made a commitment that they will reduce the ‘second pruning’ of street trees.

Breaking: Former Balmain Leagues Club site development refused by the Court. Today our community had a great win in the Land and Environment Court. See my live video to hear the news. 

I am pleased to announce the launch of a review I have commissioned into the feasibility of a ferry service in Glebe. 

Over 1, 000 people recently signed my petition for a ferry service in the area.

See my speech on September 24 2016, on the destructive WestConnex and its impact in Leichhardt and the inner west.

Inner West Courier, August 9th 2016

INNER West Council has backflipped on an unpopular plan to cut parking permits for Balmain Public School teachers.

Teachers may have had to move their cars several times during the working day if the council’s decision to reduce the number of parking permits from 18 to six was not overturned.

30 August 2016

Greens MP Jamie Parker has called for an urgent review of the laws against electoral corruption in the wake of the ICAC’s report into Operation Spicer.

The ICAC report has exposed prohibited donations, fund channeling and non-disclosures in the run up to the Liberal Party’s State election campaign in 2011.