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'''Lee Rhiannon''' is an [[Australia]]n politician. She joined [[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]] in 1991<ref name="NSWLC_profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3AllMembers/3046 | title=Ms Lee RHIANNON, MLC | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date=2009-12-09 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref> and was elected to the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]] in [[1999]]. She was re-elected to the Legislative Council at the [[New South Wales legislative election, 2007|2007 state election]].
'''Lee Rhiannon''' is an [[Australia]]n politician. She joined [[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]] in 1991<ref name="NSWLC_profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/V3AllMembers/3046 | title=Ms Lee RHIANNON, MLC | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date=2009-12-09 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref> and was elected to the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]] in [[1999]]. She was re-elected to the Legislative Council at the [[New South Wales legislative election, 2007|2007 state election]].


In June [[2009]] she won preselection to run in first position on The Greens NSW ticket for the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] at the [[Next Australian federal election|next federal election]]. She will resign from the Legislative Council when that federal election is called.<ref name="NSWLC_resignation">{{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/06/2483855.htm | title=Greens' Rhiannon quits for federal bid | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2009-02-06 | accessdate=2009-08-21}}</ref> A ballot of Greens members in late 2009 selected [[Cate Faehrmann]] to fill the resulting [[casual vacancy]].<ref name="NSWLC_vacancy">{{cite web | url=http://nsw.greens.org.au/greens-announce-new-team-for-nsw-parliament | title=Greens announce new team for NSW Parliament | publisher=''[[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]]'' | date=2009-11-29 | accessdate=2009-12-04}}</ref> <ref name="NSWLC_vacancy_2">{{cite web | url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/nsw-greens-plot-political-merrygoround-20091129-jz1c.html | title=NSW Greens plot political merry-go-round | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date=2009-11-29 | accessdate=2010-01-04}}</ref>
In June [[2009]] she won preselection to run in first position on The Greens NSW ticket for the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] at the [[Next Australian federal election|next federal election]]. She will resign from the Legislative Council when that federal election is called.<ref name="NSWLC_resignation">{{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/06/2483855.htm | title=Greens' Rhiannon quits for federal bid | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2009-02-06 | accessdate=2009-08-21}}</ref> A ballot of Greens members in late 2009 selected [[Cate Faehrmann]] to fill the resulting [[casual vacancy]].<ref name="NSWLC_vacancy">{{cite web | url=http://nsw.greens.org.au/greens-announce-new-team-for-nsw-parliament | title=Greens announce new team for NSW Parliament | publisher=''[[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]]'' | date=2009-11-29 | accessdate=2009-12-04}}</ref> <ref name="NSWLC_vacancy_2">{{cite web | url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/nsw-greens-plot-political-merrygoround-20091129-jz1c.html | title=NSW Greens plot political merry-go-round | author=[[Australian Associated Press]] | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date=2009-11-29 | accessdate=2010-01-04}}</ref>


Rhiannon holds a strong personal belief that social change comes from social movements, not politicians.<ref name="CCSJ">{{cite web | url=http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/mcs/article/viewFile/1114/1306 | title=Social movements and political parties: conflicts and balance | publisher=''Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal'', Vol.1, No.2 | year=2009 | accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref> In her inaugural speech to NSW Parliament she said, “This parliament makes the law, but it is the people who make history".<ref name="NSWLC_speech">{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/members.nsf/c3fbc5dae71e003fca2573470027fc88/32b725a7516e9802ca256be2002535a5/$FILE/ATTK2SYV/Rhiannon.pdf | title=Lee Rhiannon Inaugural Speech - NSW Legislative Council Hansard | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date=1999-05-26 | accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref>
Rhiannon holds a strong personal belief that social change comes from social movements, not politicians.<ref name="CCSJ">{{cite web | url=http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/mcs/article/viewFile/1114/1306 | author=Lee Rhiannon | title=Social movements and political parties: conflicts and balance | publisher=''Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal'', Vol.1, No.2 | year=2009 | accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref> In her inaugural speech to NSW Parliament she said, “This parliament makes the law, but it is the people who make history".<ref name="NSWLC_speech">{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/parlment/members.nsf/c3fbc5dae71e003fca2573470027fc88/32b725a7516e9802ca256be2002535a5/$FILE/ATTK2SYV/Rhiannon.pdf | title=Lee Rhiannon Inaugural Speech - NSW Legislative Council Hansard | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date=1999-05-26 | accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref>


She has three adult children<ref name="NSWLC_profile" /> and lives with her partner in Sydney.
She has three adult children<ref name="NSWLC_profile" /> and lives with her partner in Sydney.


==Early Years==
==Early Years==
Rhiannon is the daughter of [[Freda Yetta Brown]] who was a prominent Australian women's rights activist, and Bill Brown. Both were former [[Communist Party of Australia]] members. Her parents activism led to documentation of Rhiannon's life by [[Australian Security Intelligence Organisation|ASIO]] from as early as the age of seven.<ref name="ASIO">{{cite web | url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/asio-spooks-spied-on-little-girls/story-e6freuy9-1225843222541 | title=ASIO spooks spied on little girls | publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph (Australia)]]'' | date=2010-04-30 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref>
Rhiannon is the daughter of [[Freda Yetta Brown]] who was a prominent Australian women's rights activist, and Bill Brown. Both were former [[Communist Party of Australia]] members. Her parents activism led to documentation of Rhiannon's life by [[Australian Security Intelligence Organisation|ASIO]] from as early as the age of seven.<ref name="ASIO">{{cite web | url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/asio-spooks-spied-on-little-girls/story-e6freuy9-1225843222541 | title=ASIO spooks spied on little girls | publisher=''[[The Daily Telegraph (Australia)]]'' | author=Liinda Silmalis | date=2010-03-21 | accessdate=2010-04-30}}</ref>


She went to primary school in [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]], [[Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales|Kangaroo Valley]] and [[Bronte, New South Wales|Bronte]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} She attended [[Sydney Girls High School]], completing her [[Higher School Certificate]] in 1969.<ref name="SGHS">{{cite web|title=The History of Sydney Girls High School|url=http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html|publisher=''[[Sydney Girls High School]]''|accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref> <ref name="NSWLC_profile" />
She went to primary school in [[Newtown, New South Wales|Newtown]], [[Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales|Kangaroo Valley]] and [[Bronte, New South Wales|Bronte]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} She attended [[Sydney Girls High School]], completing her [[Higher School Certificate]] in 1969.<ref name="SGHS">{{cite web|title=The History of Sydney Girls High School|url=http://www.sghs.nsw.edu.au/History/index.html|publisher=''[[Sydney Girls High School]]''|accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref> <ref name="NSWLC_profile" />
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===Political Donations===
===Political Donations===
Rhiannon initiated the Greens ''[http://democracy4sale.org Democracy 4 Sale]'' project which indexes political donation records in Australia so that they are more easily searchable. The project has helped to drive electoral funding reform in NSW.<ref name="State_Donations_NewMatilda_1">{cite web | url=http://newmatilda.com/2009/09/18/icac-too-inscrutable-public-good | title=ICAC too Inscrutable for Public Good | author= | publisher=''[[New Matilda]]'' | date= | date_retrieved= }</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_ABC_1">{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/15/2743223.htm | title= | author= | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2009-11-15 | date_retrieved= }</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_SMH_1">{cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/time-to-take-the-cash-out-of-politics/2008/01/17/1200419965554.html | title=Time to Take Cash Out of Politics | author= | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date= | date_retrieved= }</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_NewMatilda_2">{cite web | url=http://newmatilda.com/search/node/twomey | title= | author= | publisher=''[[New Matilda]]'' | date=2008-01-07 | date_retrieved= }</ref>
Rhiannon initiated the Greens ''[http://democracy4sale.org Democracy 4 Sale]'' project which indexes political donation records in Australia so that they are more easily searchable. The project has helped to drive electoral funding reform in NSW.<ref name="State_Donations_NewMatilda_1">{{cite web | url=http://newmatilda.com/2009/09/18/icac-too-inscrutable-public-good | title=ICAC too Inscrutable for Public Good | author=Quentin Dempster | publisher=''[[New Matilda]]'' | date=2009-09-18 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_ABC_1">{{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/15/2743223.htm | title=Rees' developer donation ban gets bipartisan support | author= | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2009-11-15 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_SMH_1">{{cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/time-to-take-the-cash-out-of-politics/2008/01/17/1200419965554.html | title=Time to Take Cash Out of Politics | author=David Humphries | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date=2008-01-18 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_NewMatilda_2">{{cite web | url=http://newmatilda.com/2008/11/20/electoral-reform-could-be-rees-best-friend | title=Electoral Reform Could Be Rees's Best Friend | author=Lee Rhiannon and Norman Thompson | publisher=''[[New Matilda]]'' | date=2008-11-20 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref>


Rhiannon initiated a private members bill to ban donations from developers to the NSW government in 2003<ref name="State_Donations_D4S">{cite web | url=http://www.democracy4sale.org/~d4sale/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=18&Itemid=21 | title= | author= | publisher= | date= | date_retrieved= }</ref> and worked with Greens MP [[Sylvia Hale]] to move the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Restoration of Community Participation) Bill in 2008.<ref name="State_Donations_NSWBills">{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/NSWBills.nsf/d6079cf53295ca7dca256e66001e39d2/81a438c86667f747ca2572d6007de3c0?OpenDocument | title= | author= | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date= | date_retrieved= }</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_ABC_2">{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/01/2204815.htm | title= | author= | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2008-04-01 | date_retrieved= }</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_Lee">{cite web | url=http://archive.lee.greens.org.au/index.php/content/view/1259/58/ | title= | author= | publisher=''[[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]]'' | date=2008-04-01 | date_retrieved= }</ref>
Rhiannon initiated a private members bill to ban donations from developers to the NSW government in 2003<ref name="State_Donations_D4S">{{cite web | url=http://www.democracy4sale.org/~d4sale/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=18&Itemid=21 | title=Legislation Changes | author=Lee Rhiannon | publisher=The Greens NSW | date=2008-08-01 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> and worked with Greens MP [[Sylvia Hale]] to move the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Restoration of Community Participation) Bill in 2008.<ref name="State_Donations_NSWBills">{{cite web | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/NSWBills.nsf/d6079cf53295ca7dca256e66001e39d2/81a438c86667f747ca2572d6007de3c0?OpenDocument | title=Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Restoration of Community Participation) Bill 2008 | author=[[Sylvia Hale]] | publisher=''[[Parliament of New South Wales]]'' | date=2007-05-09 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_ABC_2">{{cite web | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/01/2204815.htm | title=Greens push political donation reform | author= | publisher=''[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]'' | date=2008-04-01 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> <ref name="State_Donations_Lee">{{cite web | url=http://archive.lee.greens.org.au/index.php/content/view/1259/58/ | title=Speeches - Developer Donations (Anti-Corruption) Bill | author= | publisher=''[[Greens New South Wales|The Greens NSW]]'' | date=2004-03-11 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref>


Although these bills were defeated, these actions led to increased pressure on the NSW government initiate donation reform. In June 2008 this culminated in the government itself presenting two bills, the Election Funding Amendment (Political Donations Expenditure) Bill 2008 and the Local Government and Planning Legislation Amendment (Political Donations) Bill 2008. Rhiannon moved a raft of amendments to close loopholes, which failed to gain the major parties’ support.<ref name="State_Donations_SMH_2">{cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/big-loopholes-in-donations-ban-say-greens-20091130-k17k.html | title=Big Loopholes in Donations Ban Say Greens | author= | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date=2009-11-30 | date_retrieved= }</ref> Donations from developers to political parties in NSW were finally banned in 2009.{{Citation needed | date=May 2010}}
Although these bills were defeated, these actions led to increased pressure on the NSW government initiate donation reform. In June 2008 this culminated in the government itself presenting two bills, the Election Funding Amendment (Political Donations Expenditure) Bill 2008 and the Local Government and Planning Legislation Amendment (Political Donations) Bill 2008. Rhiannon moved a raft of amendments to close loopholes, which failed to gain the major parties’ support.<ref name="State_Donations_SMH_2">{{cite web | url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/big-loopholes-in-donations-ban-say-greens-20091130-k17k.html | title=Big Loopholes in Donations Ban Say Greens | author=Louise Hall | publisher=''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' | date=2009-12-01 | date_retrieved=2010-07-07 }}</ref> Donations from developers to political parties in NSW were finally banned in 2009.{{Citation needed | date=May 2010}}


===Committees===
===Committees===

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Lee Rhiannon
Photograph of Lee Rhiannon at a press briefing in 2007
Lee Rhiannon at a press briefing in 2007
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Assumed office
27 March, 1999
Personal details
Born (1951-05-30) 30 May 1951 (age 73)
NationalityAustralian Australia
Political partyThe Greens NSW,
Australian Greens
WebsiteLee Rhiannon MLC

Lee Rhiannon is an Australian politician. She joined The Greens NSW in 1991[1] and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1999. She was re-elected to the Legislative Council at the 2007 state election.

In June 2009 she won preselection to run in first position on The Greens NSW ticket for the Senate at the next federal election. She will resign from the Legislative Council when that federal election is called.[2] A ballot of Greens members in late 2009 selected Cate Faehrmann to fill the resulting casual vacancy.[3] [4]

Rhiannon holds a strong personal belief that social change comes from social movements, not politicians.[5] In her inaugural speech to NSW Parliament she said, “This parliament makes the law, but it is the people who make history".[6]

She has three adult children[1] and lives with her partner in Sydney.

Early Years

Rhiannon is the daughter of Freda Yetta Brown who was a prominent Australian women's rights activist, and Bill Brown. Both were former Communist Party of Australia members. Her parents activism led to documentation of Rhiannon's life by ASIO from as early as the age of seven.[7]

She went to primary school in Newtown, Kangaroo Valley and Bronte.[citation needed] She attended Sydney Girls High School, completing her Higher School Certificate in 1969.[8] [1]

Early Activism

Rhiannon was active as a school student against the war in Vietnam as a member of High School Students Against The Vietnam War (1968)[1], travelling to Canberra to protest at the US Embassy and Australian Parliament.[citation needed]

As a teenager in the late 1960s, Rhiannon worked as a zoo-keeper at Taronga Zoo, and then at the Regent Park Zoo in London.[citation needed] She later graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in botany and zoology with Honours in Botany (1975).[1] She was later a tutor in botany practicals at UNSW (1975) and worked at Macquarie University as a research assistant in population ecology (1976-77) and as a tutor in general ecology.[citation needed] In the 1970s Lee was arrested whilst involved in anti-apartheid protests.[citation needed]

During the 1980s Rhiannon was a member of NSW Women’s Advisory Council to the Wran Government (1980-82)[1] and an organiser of the Pine Gap women’s peace camp, where 700 women camped outside the US military base in central Australia.[citation needed] During this decade she was Secretary of the Union of Australian Women (NSW Branch) (1980-83)[1] and an organiser for Women Against Global Violence and Women for Survival (1983-85).[1] Rhiannon also worked as a journalist for trade unions including the Seamens Union (now Maritime Union of Australia) and the Printers Union (now Australian Manufacturing Workers Union).[citation needed] She founded and became convenor of the National Coalition for Gun Control (1988-92),[1] regularly debating gun lobbyists in the media and championing the call for removing all guns from urban areas.[citation needed]

In the 1990s, Rhiannon’s attention moved towards overseas aid. In this period, she was public relations officer with the Ideas Centre, a resource centre on low income countries (1989-90).[citation needed] She initiated 'Pactok', a program designed to provide people from low-income countries with information technologies (1990-91) and AWARE (Action for the World and Renewable Environment) a schools and community education program highlighting inequity between the first and third worlds (1990).[citation needed] Rhiannon worked for the Rainforest Information Centre (1991-1992),[1] where she helped develop a campaign for the banning of imports of rainforest timbers.[citation needed] One of Rhiannon’s most significant achievements was founding and directing AID/WATCH, an international monitoring body of Australia’s overseas aid programs (1993-98).[1]

State Politics

Overview

During her time as a Greens MLC in NSW Parliament Rhiannon has campaigned on a broad range of issues. These include reforming the funding of public education, advocating for more sustainable public transport and no new motorways, protecting workers’ rights, opposing over-development, creating a fairer justice system, protecting native forests, working for gay and lesbian rights, promoting animal welfare and cleaning up politicians’ pay and entitlements.

She has also campaigned for reform of NSW’s freedom of information laws and to remove abortion from the NSW Crimes Act.[9] [10]

In 2001 Rhiannon initiated an annual memorial lecture in honour of Juanita Nielsen, a community activist who organised against overdevelopment in Sydney's Kings Cross, activity that is believed to be the motive for her murder during the same period.

Two of Rhiannon’s most notable campaigns have been in the areas of political donations and coal mining across NSW.

Political Donations

Rhiannon initiated the Greens Democracy 4 Sale project which indexes political donation records in Australia so that they are more easily searchable. The project has helped to drive electoral funding reform in NSW.[11] [12] [13] [14]

Rhiannon initiated a private members bill to ban donations from developers to the NSW government in 2003[15] and worked with Greens MP Sylvia Hale to move the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Restoration of Community Participation) Bill in 2008.[16] [17] [18]

Although these bills were defeated, these actions led to increased pressure on the NSW government initiate donation reform. In June 2008 this culminated in the government itself presenting two bills, the Election Funding Amendment (Political Donations Expenditure) Bill 2008 and the Local Government and Planning Legislation Amendment (Political Donations) Bill 2008. Rhiannon moved a raft of amendments to close loopholes, which failed to gain the major parties’ support.[19] Donations from developers to political parties in NSW were finally banned in 2009.[citation needed]

Committees

Rhiannon currently serves on the following parliamentary committees:[1]

  • Select Committee on the NSW Taxi Industry
  • General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2
  • General Purpose Standing Committee No. 3
  • Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Ms Lee RHIANNON, MLC". Parliament of New South Wales. 2009-12-09. Retrieved 2010-04-30. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "Greens' Rhiannon quits for federal bid". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2009-08-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Greens announce new team for NSW Parliament". The Greens NSW. 2009-11-29. Retrieved 2009-12-04. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Australian Associated Press (2009-11-29). "NSW Greens plot political merry-go-round". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2010-01-04. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ Lee Rhiannon (2009). "Social movements and political parties: conflicts and balance". Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, Vol.1, No.2. Retrieved 2010-05-14. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ "Lee Rhiannon Inaugural Speech - NSW Legislative Council Hansard" (PDF). Parliament of New South Wales. 1999-05-26. Retrieved 2010-05-14. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Liinda Silmalis (2010-03-21). "ASIO spooks spied on little girls". The Daily Telegraph (Australia). Retrieved 2010-04-30. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ "The History of Sydney Girls High School". Sydney Girls High School. Retrieved 2010-05-14. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ Gareth Griffith (2007). "Freedom of Information – Issues and Recent Developments in NSW, Briefing Paper No 6/07" (PDF). New South Wales Parliamentary Library. p. 3. Retrieved 2010-05-14. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  10. ^ Lisa Carty (2009-03-08). "Move to decriminalise abortion". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2010-05-14. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  11. ^ Quentin Dempster (2009-09-18). "ICAC too Inscrutable for Public Good". New Matilda. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  12. ^ "Rees' developer donation ban gets bipartisan support". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2009-11-15. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  13. ^ David Humphries (2008-01-18). "Time to Take Cash Out of Politics". The Sydney Morning Herald. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  14. ^ Lee Rhiannon and Norman Thompson (2008-11-20). "Electoral Reform Could Be Rees's Best Friend". New Matilda. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  15. ^ Lee Rhiannon (2008-08-01). "Legislation Changes". The Greens NSW. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  16. ^ Sylvia Hale (2007-05-09). "Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Restoration of Community Participation) Bill 2008". Parliament of New South Wales. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  17. ^ "Greens push political donation reform". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-04-01. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  18. ^ "Speeches - Developer Donations (Anti-Corruption) Bill". The Greens NSW. 2004-03-11. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)
  19. ^ Louise Hall (2009-12-01). "Big Loopholes in Donations Ban Say Greens". The Sydney Morning Herald. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |date_retrieved= ignored (help)