Green Magazine - August | Australian Greens

Features

A fruitful month

It’s been a fruitful month beginning our work in the new Parliament, with the Greens improving and then backing the passage of Labor’s Climate Change Bill in the House. But as Adam Bandt explains, our work doesn’t end there – particularly because Labor continues to back both new coal and gas projects, and the stage three tax cuts for the wealthy.

Our six new MPs in their own words

This past month marked a couple of significant milestones for our six new Greens MPs: being sworn in to Parliament and delivering their first speeches. In case you missed these historic moments – and even if you didn’t! – we’ve rounded them up for you in the one place.

From the kitchen table to the UN

It’s time for Australia to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – something to which PM Albanese committed the Labor party when in opposition. So as we mark the tragic anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings this month, what role do Greens supporters have in this important process?

Also this month

Why the NT is the next Green battleground

The Northern Territory is on the frontline of Australia’s climate crisis, exacerbated by a Territory government unbothered by the devastating impacts of fracking in particular. In the wake of his by-election campaign for the NT seat of Fannie Bay, Jonathan Parry talks about why it’s so important we get Greens representation in the NT – and how you can help.

Anti-protest laws are climate preparedness (if you’re a neoliberal government)

The past decade has seen governments across the country start pulling apart the right to protest, empowering police and criminalising dissent. It’s getting worse – and, as Senator David Shoebridge explains, that means it’s our responsibility to resist them.