Latest News, Articles & Media

Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

Re-announcement of $50 million for Reef today equals Government’s Reef funding cuts

26 April, 2016 - The Environment Minister's announcement of $50 million in Reef Trust projects today is a re-announcement of existing Reef funding and is underm...

Australian Greens pledge to implement Paris Agreement

22 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens have joined with over 90 Greens parties around the world in committing to implement the Paris Agreement, reached at the U...

Cabinet Ministers undermining Paris agreement being signed tonight by questioning climate science

22 April, 2016 - With Cabinet Ministers questioning climate science, the world will have little confidence in Greg Hunt's signature on the Paris climate agreeme...

Domestic violence advertising campaign must come with boost to crisis funding for women who reach out as a result

20 April, 2016 - With the launch today of the advertising campaign to tackle attitudes that allow domestic violence to fester, the Greens are calling for the Tu...

Near blanket Reef bleaching shows we must quit coal

20 April, 2016 - With the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce finding 93 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef has coral bleaching, the Greens have renewed calls fo...

Legal Aid urgently needs funding boost given high demand for domestic violence family law services

18 April, 2016 - With new analysis showing 79 per cent of Legal-Aid-assisted family law cases include domestic violence, the Greens today renewed their call for...

Most Australians agree with the Greens against taxpayer handouts for big fossil fuel companies

15 April, 2016 - Most Australians (58.9%) believe the government spends too much on fossil fuel subsidies, according to a national ReachTEL poll out today, and ...

Peabody bankruptcy shows need for rehabilitation bonds and transition planning

13 April, 2016 - With Peabody filing for bankruptcy today in the US, the Queensland and New South Wales governments must urgently secure outstanding rehabilitat...

Turnbull Government ensuring the clean energy projects announced today among the last of their kind

13 April, 2016 - The Australian Renewable Energy Agency projects announced by the Turnbull Government today would likely not be eligible for funding under the T...

“Energy poverty” hypocrisy exposed by new Adani company allegations

7 April, 2016 - Following allegations of electricity price gouging by the Adani company in India, the Greens re-iterated their call for the state Labor and fede...

Minister Hunt’s sneaky attempt to co-opt Sir David’s Reef documentary to downplay impacts is offensive

7 April, 2016 - Environment Minister Hunt's attempt to use Sir David Attenborough's documentary to downplay threats to the Great Barrier Reef, including those i...

Anglo’s Foxleigh mine sale another reason to act on rehab, despite mining lobby’s squeals

6 April, 2016 - Reports that Anglo American is selling the Foxleigh coal mine at Middlemount to Sydney's Taurus Fund Management is more evidence of the need for...