[10] The party currently sits on the crossbench in the New South Wales Parliament, and has representation federally in the Senate.

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.

David Shoebridge was re-elected and joined by Jan Barham and Jeremy Buckingham in the Legislative Council.

At the 2015 State election current sitting members Jamie Parker, John Kaye and Mehreen Faruqi were re-elected.

In October 2016, Jan Barham resigned and the casual vacancy was filled a few months later by former federal candidate for Richmond, Dawn Walker.

[14] Buckingham described the party as more focused on "bringing down capitalism" and "divisive identity politics" than acting on climate change.

David Shoebridge was re-elected, Abigail Boyd (former federal candidate for Dobell) won one but Dawn Walker lost hers.

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

The SDC is the highest decision-making body, and controls election campaigns for statewide candidatures (such as the Senate and Legislative Council).

[17] A variety of working groups have been established by the SDC, which are directly accessible to all Greens members.

These include: The party has described itself as being based on the principles of: ecological sustainability, grassroots democracy, social justice, peace and non-violence.

[20] They want to transition towards a circular economy that eliminates waste[21] and expand the protected areas network in NSW to at least 30% of the total landmass.

[22] On economic issues, the NSW Greens want to tax big business and redirect the money towards public services.

[27] The party wants to strengthen renters rights and impose rent controls,[28] as well as invest in public housing.