Welcome. I’m Brad Pettitt, your Greens MLC in the WA State Parliament.

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We all want a better, more sustainable world. Here are some of my ideas about how to make it happen.

8 June 2023

The Inconvenient Truth about Gas.

5 June 2023

Build-to-rent – a key addition to housing options in WA

1 June 2023

Transit-Orientated Development; time for TODs to take off

22 May 2023

Banksia Hill Detention Centre and Unit 18 complaint letters see much needed focus on kids in prison

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Banksia Hill and Unit 18 Casuarina – Youth detention letters

22 May 2023

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Statement to Parliament on Police and climate activists

16 May 2023

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“Environmental watchdog targets big polluters “Seven News, 5 April 2023

6 April 2023

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🖤💛❤️ RALLY - COMPENSATION NOW FOR MEMBER

🖤💛❤️ RALLY - COMPENSATION NOW FOR MEMBERS OF THE STOLEN GENERATION - PARLIAMENT HOUSE 12.30PM TUESDAY 13 JUNE 🖤💛❤️

Well over two decades after the Bringing Them Home report, WA is one of the last States not to have a compensation scheme for members of the Stolen Generations.
Join us outside Parliament on Tuesday 13 June at 12.30PM to remind this State Government that there’s no excuse for them not to right this wrong immediately and enact a plan to compensate survivors

We have a housing crisis and it's time that state

We have a housing crisis and it's time that state governments looked at mechanisms like this one to get short-term housing and AirBNBs back into the long-term rental market.

Every new home is one less person forced onto the street, one less parent and kids sleeping in a car, and one less person unable to escape family violence because they’ve got nowhere else to go. It is the least we can do.

Backing what we’ve been saying for months, this

Backing what we’ve been saying for months, this report highlights the horrific and broken nature of Banksia Hill. It’s time for major changes to the facility and the youth justice system.

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Worthwhile opinion piece on Banksia Hill in The We

Worthwhile opinion piece on Banksia Hill in The West today. Now we know Papalia is the new minister for Corrective Services, there’s an opportunity for a reset on Youth Justice that listens to the experts and the evidence. The last few years has been a terrible period that’s left little more than damaged buildings, staff and kids. A new trauma informed approach is needed.

It’s good to see some movement on community batt

It’s good to see some movement on community batteries, but questions need to be asked why WA is only getting six batteries worth $3 million out of a $200 million national fund. Given WA’s huge rooftop PV coverage we will need a lot more than this.

Also, none of these batteries are planned for outside of Perth, which is unbelievable given so many regional communities are crying out for affordable renewable supply and storage.

Small steps are not what the climate crisis demands. It’s time to get serious about the transition.

Umbrellas came in doubly useful today as we marked

Umbrellas came in doubly useful today as we marked World Environment Day by highlighting the wonderful black cockatoos that are under threat in WA. We can and must do more. @savetheblackcockatoos

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