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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

What more proof do you need that Labor can never be trusted on the environment?

3 March, 2026 - Department advice to dramatically reign in salmon farming from Macquarie Harbour to protect the Maugean skate and the National Heritage values o...

Greens statement on Maugean skate listing

13 February, 2026 - The Environment Minister’s refusal to up-list the conservation status of the endangered Maugean skate does not hide the species' fatal futur...

Only community and Greens pressure can keep Great Barrier Reef hopes alive

30 January, 2026 - A government report prepared for UNESCO on actions taken to stop the Great Barrier Reef losing its World Heritage status highlights that with...

Increased federal funding for shark mitigation urgently needed

20 January, 2026 - The Greens call for federal leadership and funding for more effective shark bite mitigation measures in the wake of four incidents in just th...

Labor’s ocean acreage handout exposes fossil fuel state capture

12 December, 2025 - The Greens have slammed the Albanese government for handing out new ocean acreage to their donor mates in the fossil fuel industry to exploi...

Labor's Antarctic plan is giving with one hand but taking with the other

11 December, 2025 - Today's Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) funding announcement is welcome but will be of little comfort to the Hobart-based Antarctic and ...

Greens secure Senate inquiry into CSIRO job cuts

26 November, 2025 - The Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into the job and program cuts at the CSIRO, Australia’s leading scientific research agency. The inq...

CSIRO’s Environment Research Unit alleged to bear the brunt of job cuts

20 November, 2025 - The Greens are deeply concerned that the 350 job cuts planned at the CSIRO will disproportionately impact public good science, with sources ...

CSIRO job cuts must be explained

18 November, 2025 - The Greens implore the Albanese government to commit funding to the CSIRO to avoid hundreds of job cuts across Australia’s leading scientifi...

Tragic consequences of shark net hypocrisy on display

29 October, 2025 - The Greens implore Minister Watt to remove an EPBC exemption that allows state-controlled shark cull programs following the death of a h...

Peter Whish-Wilson

21 October, 2025 - The past year has been one where the Greens have secured significant wins on matters of policy and principle.