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.

The first Greens party was registered in 1984, but the Greens NSW did not take its current form until 1991, when six local groups in New South Wales federated as a state political party. Greens candidates have run in every federal election since 1984, when a single candidate ran in the federal Division of Sydney.

The party first came close to electing a candidate in 1991, when Ian Cohen was the last candidate to be excluded in a contest against Christian Democratic Party leader Fred Nile, which was dubbed as a contest between 'heaven and earth' by the media, for the last seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council.

Jeremy Buckingham (born 1973 in Tasmania) is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since the 2011 state election.

For the Greens, he holds the portfolios of Mining and Resources, Primary Industries, Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services, Small Business, and Sport and Recreation.

Buckingham was born and raised in Launceston, Tasmania. After school, he spent two years working as a benchman at a small sawmill.

Buckingham moved to the mainland in the 1990s, where he worked as forklift driver, hardware store salesman and builders labourer.

Buckingham later moved to Orange in the central west of NSW in 1997 with his wife Sarah, where he worked as production manager for McMurtie & Co. Stonemasons.

After a back injury which rendered him unfit for heavy lifting, Buckingham enrolled in an advanced diploma in Ecological Agriculture and Land Management at the University of Sydney, which he graduated from in 2006. He continued to work as a stonemason until his election to state parliament in 2011.

Lee Rhiannon (born 30 May 1951), an Australian politician, is a Senator for New South Wales, elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Australian parliament, Rhiannon was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council, serving between 1999 and 2010, representing the NSW Greens.

Lee Rhiannon was born Lee Brown, the daughter of Bill and Freda Brown, who were long-term members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and later the Soviet-loyal Socialist Party. Her parents' membership of the CPA led to documentation of her life by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) from as early as the age of seven. She joined the Socialist Party around 1973.

She sat the New South Wales Higher School Certificate at Sydney Girls High School in 1969 and obtained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in botany and zoology with honours in botany, at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 1975.

During the 1970s Rhiannon was arrested during anti-apartheid protests. In the 1980s she helped organise the "peace camp" protest outside the joint US-Australian defence facility at Pine Gap, central Australia. According to Mark Aarons, she left the Socialist Party in the early 1980s. Rhiannon edited the Soviet-funded and backed newspaper Survey from 1988 until it ceased publication in 1990. She joined the Greens in 1990.

Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer.

He trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), from which he graduated in 2002. Parker originated the role of Scripps in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys. He was involved in The History Boys from the play’s first reading, initially reading the part of Rudge before taking on the role of Scripps in the original London stage production as well as in the Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions and radio and film versions of the play. His other National Theatre credits include a 2008 revival of The Revenger's Tragedy.

Parker put his musical talents to use in The History Boys, playing piano and singing in several scenes. He also appeared as Werner von Haeften in the historical thriller Valkyrie.

In 2009 he played Oliver in As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe. He returned in 2010 to play Prince Hal in both Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2. His musical talents were further exhibited (briefly) when he played a wooden recorder in an early tavern scene. In 2011 he will appear at Chichester in Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with fellow History Boy, Samuel Barnett. During the spring of 2012 he toured the UK in the Globe production of "Henry V", a production which will play at Shakespeare's Globe on London's Southbank during the summer of 2012 thereby completing the Prince Hal story arc in Shakespeare's history plays at the Globe.

David Shoebridge is an Australian politician. He has been a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since September 2010, when he was appointed to replace outgoing MLC Sylvia Hale.