With disturbing findings of last year’s Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide being revealed, Greens spokesperson for Veteran Affairs and Ballina MP, Tamara Smith, is calling for governments to ‘confront the crisis and make lasting reforms’.

As Homelessness Week reminds us of the housing shortage, Member for Ballina, Tamara Smith MP, says she is thrilled with the $899,000 Ballina Shire Council will receive to remediate contaminated land earmarked for future housing.

Seventy-two homeowners in the Ballina electorate will receive government funding to raise and retrofit their flood-affected homes, says local NSW Greens MP, Tamara Smith. 

Greens Member for Ballina Tamara Smith has welcomed some of Labor’s funding announcements in last week’s state budget, including a new Fire and Rescue station for Byron Bay and more firies.

Another ecologist has added their name to the community campaign against development on environmentally sensitive land in Brunswick Heads.

Yesterday the media gathered at the proposed Wallum development at Brunswick Heads as Tamara Smith, Member for Ballina, held a conference to urge the NSW planning minister to refer the development the federal environment minister.

A whole community can expel a sigh of relief at the breaking news that months of distress and sadness can now become part of history – this morning the Minister for Crown Lands, Steve Kamper, has announced that services providers for aged care are advised that Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open for Feros Village Byron Bay.

Last night a packed Suffolk Park Hotel exploded with cheers at around 8pm when the ABC broadcast computer popped up a Green result for Ballina and the return of Tamara Smith to the seat she has held for the last eight years.

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With hardly a vacant seat in the auditorium, Bob Brown kept the party faithful’s eyes, ears and hearts glued to the stage on Saturday...