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Larissa Waters
Senator for Qld & Greens Leader in the Senate

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...

Greens celebrate record local Council results

4 April, 2016 - With the results of Queensland local council elections being declared, Senator Waters congratulated Queensland Greens members, volunteers and su...

Labor and Liberal Parties’ reef hypocrisy both dangerous and insincere

3 April, 2016 - The Australian Greens condemn Queensland Labor’s reported decision this morning to approve mining leases for the Adani mega coal mine. “Despite ...

Greens call for $90 million funding boost for Reef Marine Park Authority and Reef scientists

23 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for a funding boost for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority by $82 million over four years to help t...

Level 3 bleaching event makes choice even more stark – it’s coral or coal

21 March, 2016 - The Greens are calling on the Turnbull and Palaszczuk governments to stop allowing new coal mines in the wake of the coral bleaching threat inc...

Climate targets so bad the Government claims they’re being met as pollution increases

18 March, 2016 - The national emissions figures released today show the Turnbull Government’s climate pollution reduction targets are so bad that the government...