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The Greens NSW, also known as the NSW Greens, is a green political party in New South Wales and a member of the Australian Greens. First formed in 1991, the Greens NSW began as a state level party before joining with other green parties in Australia to create the current federated structure. The Greens NSW continue to be separate to the other state and territory Greens parties in several regards. The Greens NSW tend to be more left wing in their political positions in comparison to the other state parties, and continues to maintain the original Greens policy of not having a single parliamentary leader, instead being based on principles of collective leadership. The party currently sits on the crossbench in the New South Wales Parliament, and has representation federally in the Senate.

The party endorses candidates to stand for election in many of the 128 local government areas across NSW, including in rural and regional areas where the major parties usually do not run candidates on party tickets. The Greens NSW currently have 58 councillors on 32 local councils around NSW. In NSW local government elections were held in September 2016 and September 2017. In 2016 The Greens elected three mayors and 24 councillors in the 29 areas where candidates stood. Greens councillors were elected for the first time in: Albury, Broken Hill, Clarence Valley, Glen Innes Severn, Goulburn Mulwaree, Kyogle and Yass Valley. The Greens also grew their vote in Bellingen, Byron, Shoalhaven, Campbelltown, Kiama, Hawkesbury, Wingecarribee, Lismore, Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains. In 2017 The Greens elected a further 31 Councillors in Armidale, Bathurst, Canterbury Bankstown, Canada Bay, Hornsby, Inner West, Newcastle, Northern Beaches, Orange, Parramatta, Queanbeyan Palerang, Randwick, Ryde. Snowy Mountains. Waverley, Willoughby, Woollahra, Wollongong.

In 1997 The Greens NSW formed part of a joint ticket called Greens, Bill of Rights, Indigenous Peoples for the 1998 Constitutional Convention held in Canberra in February 1998. Catherine Moore led the ticket and was elected for NSW. She joined Christine Milne from Tasmania to focus on ensuring that the overall process was more inclusive.

The Greens NSW retain the same basic structure which was created in 1991, with the formation of the statewide party.

The Greens NSW make decisions affecting the state party through the State Delegates Council (SDC), a meeting that consists of a delegate from each local group. The SDC is the highest decision making body, and controls election campaigns for statewide candidatures (such as the Senate and Legislative Council). It also decides on admitting new local groups as members of the Greens NSW.

The party is made up of 'local groups', who cover a specific geographical area. Local groups have complete responsibility for elections held in their area, particularly elections for the House of Representatives, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly or Local Government. There are currently 56 affiliated local groups in NSW.

The party has described itself as being based on the principles of: ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, social justice, peace and non violence. The NSW Greens want to ban new coal and gas projects, as well as ban logging in public native forests, and aim for net zero carbon emissions in NSW by 2035. They want to transition towards a circular economy that eliminates waste and expand the protected areas network in NSW to at least 30% of the total landmass. On economic issues, the NSW Greens want to tax big business and redirect the money towards public services. The NSW Greens want to make public education free, including early childhood education, as well as make healthcare free and move towards more public ownership over hospitals and health clinics. The party supports nationalisation of public transport and making it free to use in New South Wales. The party wants to strengthen renters rights and impose rent controls, as well as invest in public housing. The NSW Greens want to expand worker's rights. The party supports a legal and regulated market for the sale of cannabis. The party also supports a legal and regulated market for vaping. In this regard it supports elements such as: limits on nicotine levels in vapes, prohibiting the use of harmful chemicals in vapes, the requirement of health warnings on all vaping products, regulate vaping products so that nicotine vapes are only available to those aged over 18 years old, to fund education programs targeted at teenagers to warn them of the dangers of vaping, and reduce the waste caused by vaping by placing requirements on producers to minimise waste and recycle used nicotine vapourisers.

There is only one publicly acknowledged faction within Greens New South Wales which is the Left Renewal faction. It was formed in late 2016 and presents itself as the far left, anti capitalist wing of state's party. As of 2021, Left Renewal is not active within the party.

Election Legislative Assembly Legislative Council Votes % of votes Seats won +/– Votes % of votes Seats won Overall seats +/–1991 16,556 0.54 106,325 3.321995 87,862 2.57 0 126,591 3.75 11999 145,019 3.88 0 103,463 2.91 12003 315,370 8.25 0 320,010 8.60 12007 352,805 8.95 0 347,548 9.12 12011 427,144 10.28 1 453,125 11.12 12015 453,031 10.29 2 412,660 9.92 02019 435,401 9.57 0 432,999 9.73 12023 455,960 9.70 0 419,346 9.08 0