The Greens New South Wales is the state Greens party in New South Wales. It is a member party of the Australian Greens. The Greens NSW have one member in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Jamie Parker), five members in the New South Wales Legislative Council (Jan Barham, Cate Faerhmann, David Shoebridge, Jeremy Buckingham and John Kaye). Former Senator Kerry Nettle lost her seat in the 2007 federal election. Senator Lee Rhiannon, a former MLC, won a seat in the Senate in the 2010 federal election and took her seat in July 2011.
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