Making forest roads safer by regulating dirt bikes
Unregistered and unlicensed dirt bike riders in NSW State Forests are a danger to themselves and others who share the forest roads with them. When the inevitable happens and people are injured,...
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Scipione faced with serious questions about police convictions
David used the Police Budget Estimates hearing to ask Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione serious questions about the number of currently serving police officers with criminal records, including just...
View ArticleRoad Transport Amendment (Alcohol and Drug Testing) Bill 2014 [Legislation...
This speech was delivered on 12/08/2014 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the full debate online here. Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [8.49 p.m.]: On behalf of The Greens I speak to the Road Transport...
View ArticleESTIMATES ROUND UP Police and Emergency Services
The complete transcript of this hearing is available here David asked questions about: • The number of currently serving police officers with criminal convictions • Complaints regarding the NSW Police...
View ArticleNotice of Motion: Bentley Blockade
Today in Parliament David read a Notice of Motion calling on the House to show support for the Bentley community expressing their democratic right to peacefully protest against harmful gas mining. Mr...
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Parliamentary Forum on Police Psychological Injuries
Too often injured police in this State are treated as disposable items, to be removed from the police force with minimal cost and minimal fuss. This dismissive culture is most obvious when it comes to...
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Greens bid for documents uncovers accountability gap in GIPA act
A decision from the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has exposed a serious flaw in the Government Information (Public Access) Act. Due to a definitional oversight, senior staff who work in the...
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Parliament establishes Committee on the Conduct and Progress of the...
This week the NSW Parliament voted to establish a Parliamentary Inquiry into the Conduct and Progress of the Ombudsman’s Inquiry “Operation Prospect. This is an important opportunity to finally remove...
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Drug searches: thousands falsely identified by police drug dogs
Government figures obtained by the Greens in NSW Parliament show that police drug dogs continue to be ineffective, with a high false positive rate of 64%. As reported by the Sydney Morning Herald: Tens...
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Hundreds of strip and cavity searches following false positive drug dog...
More than 700 people a year are being stopped by NSW police, stripped naked and subjected to cavity searches for drugs, on the basis of police drug dog indications that are wrong two thirds of the...
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Parliamentary Forum on Police Pyschological Injuries – wrap up
On Tuesday 2 December David hosted a Parliamentary Forum to break the silence and highlight the need for comprehensive reform in how psychologically injured police are treated. Far too many NSW Police...
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Police Integrity Commission’s “private” prosecutions dismissed as an abuse of...
The NSW Police Integrity Commission has been handed a harsh reprimand by a Queensland Court for substantially overreaching its statutory powers. Five criminal prosecutions that the PIC commenced in...
View ArticleGreens NSW MPs Statement on Martin Place Tragedy
Greens NSW MPs, Mehreen Faruqi, David Shoebridge, John Kaye, Jeremy Buckingham, Jan Barham, Jamie Parker and Senator Lee Rhiannon have issued the following statement on the Martin Place tragedy. “Our...
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Sniff Off
Sniff Off: No More Drug Dogs! The Greens NSW are the only major party in NSW that opposes the police use of drug dogs. The use of dogs is ineffective at catching drug dealers but has resulted in...
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Diplomatic criticism from Brazil about ongoing failures on Taser death
As reported by the ABC: The Brazilian government has written to the Australian Government to express its frustration over the recent acquittal of three police officers charged over the tasering death...
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Why police should not be investigating police
It is well and truly time that NSW had an independent police oversight body. The current system sees 99% of police complaints, and all critical incident reviews, undertaken by police. The various...
View ArticleAbbott and Baird’s knee-jerk bail reform will not work
Abbott and Baird’s plan to further amend bail laws to automatically refuse bail to anyone identified as a terror suspect goes beyond the recommendations in the joint Martin Place siege review, and...
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Police bugging report calls for complete overhaul of police and covert...
The Parliamentary Inquiry into the police bugging scandal has today handed down its final report into the long-running bugging scandal that has engulfed the NSW Police Force for more than a decade. It...
View ArticleEver Seen A Drug Dog At The Opera? The Mardi Gras Is A Whole Other Story
Police routinely use drug detection dogs to target marginalised communities. Expect them out in force at Saturday’s Mardi Gras. Every year the heavy police presence at Mardi Gras includes the use of...
View ArticleArms fairs unchecked as part of proliferating gun culture
NSW Greens are raising concerns over the number of arms fairs and the lack of scrutiny of applications for arms fairs from NSW police. Material obtained by the Greens under freedom of information laws...
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