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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Greens welcome calls for new approaches to food security but warn meeting climate change targets is paramount

8 April, 2025 - The Greens welcome the national conversation stimulated today by an Australian Strategic Policy Institute report which highlights the ...

States again forced to go it alone on critical product stewardship schemes

19 March, 2025 - The Greens have condemned the Albanese government’s failure to act on its promises to legislate legally binding national schemes for ...

Over to you, Tanya

17 March, 2025 - The Greens have welcomed a historic breakthrough for better management of packaging waste and recycling in Australia, following today’s release...

Greens congratulate Christine Milne on being added to the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women

7 March, 2025 - Tasmanian Greens Senators Nick McKim and Pete Whish-Wilson have congratulated former Tasmanian and Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne in h...

Beach Energy's fossil fuel expansion off Victoria & Tasmania's coasts must be scrapped

7 February, 2025 - The Greens are calling for the Albanese Government to reject Beach Energy’s grossly unpopular plans for new fossil fuel extraction ...

Labor must rule out Bass Strait Development 

5 February, 2025 - The Greens have today raised concerns about NOPSEMA’s regulation of the offshore fossil fuel industry following the government agency’s appro...

Greens call for seismic blasting moratorium as Woodside acknowledges risks to whales and turtles

31 January, 2025 - The Australian Greens and The Greens (WA) have today issued a joint call for a seismic blasting moratorium in Western Australian and Commonwe...

Greens call for urgent action to combat little penguin decline

24 January, 2025 - The Greens are calling for an urgent response to the shocking decline of Tasmania's east coast little penguin population.  Quote...

Environment Minister chooses to do nothing again on regulating big businesses who pollute

11 December, 2024 - Yesterday was the last meeting of federal and state environment ministers before the federal election and there was very high expe...

Greens launch action plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef

9 December, 2024 - The Greens’ election plan to protect our iconic Great Barrier Reef would dedicate over $4 billion in new funding to protect this World Herita...

Greens bid to end the culture war on sharks

7 December, 2024 - Loopholes in federal legislation used by the states to deploy lethal shark nets would be closed and non-lethal shark control measures superch...