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Ease the pain

8 August, 2014 - Senator Richard Di Natale Earlier this month, Sexual Offences and Child Abuse police, brandishing a search warrant, conducted a raid on a subu...

End mining giants' free ride

8 August, 2014 - Christine Milne The big miners get off scot-free in Tony Abbott's brutal budget. BHP is on track for a mind-boggling $13.5 billion profit, whil...

Time for action on medical cannabis

7 August, 2014 - “Since I released this legislation in July this year I have received significant feedback from the community in support,” said Mr Rattenbur ...

The Australian parliament must have the power to decide if we go to war

20 July, 2014 - Scott Ludlam Australia is one of the few remaining democracies that can legally deploy its defence force into a conflict zone without recourse t...

The wrong side of history

19 July, 2014 - Christine Milne Sitting in the Senate in recent weeks, I have reflected on the complete discord between the dinosaurs of the Parliament and the ...

Is Green sustainable?

18 July, 2014 - Arthur Rosenwald We see ourselves as a movement towards a better world, but 80% of Australians see us as an extremist single-issue party. Most p...

Book Review: SUPPLY SHOCK

18 July, 2014 - Julian Hinton “This book is about that great engine of history that gets presidents elected, assembles armies and sends men to the moon... this ...

The $7 co-payment to see a doctor

18 July, 2014 - Brett Montgomery There's a lot to despair about in this budget, but the measure that is closest to my heart, and the one I'm best qualified to w...

Our climate future at risk

8 July, 2014 - Christine Milne The Clean Energy package that we negotiated with the ALP and independents after the 2010 election gave us a chance to fight the e...

NSW: Stirring times

4 July, 2014 - Hall Greenland These have been stirring times for the NSW Greens. In May we had the remarkable anti-fracking victory at Bentley in the north of t...

World at his feet

4 July, 2014 - Bruce Knobloch Soccer (call it football if you like!) has kept Masih hopeful through some terrifying and painful times. However now things are lo...

Forward towards democracy

4 July, 2014 - Christine Cunningham The Australian Green's Charter outlines our democratic mission: "to build a society underpinned by values of participatory d...

Kiwi and Green? Get involved!

24 June, 2014 - Tejopala Rawls Are you a Kiwi living here in Australia? Did you know you can vote back home without leaving Australia? This September 20th is el...

Planting the seed for 2016

24 June, 2014 - Susan Griffiths-Sussems While we are still not in the same situation as the US, we in Australia are increasingly on the same track.  We know tha...

Taking back the senate

23 June, 2014 - Senator Lee Rhiannon At the last federal election some candidates were elected to the Senate with less than one per cent of the primary vote. In...