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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Greens call on Labor to shut down seismic blasting off WA coast

13 September, 2022 - The Greens call on the Labor Government to immediately shut down plans for seismic blasting that could impact the Mermaid Reef and Rowley S...

Restoring lutruwita/Tasmania’s oceans on the political agenda in Canberra 

5 September, 2022 - The Greens have today succeeded in gaining support from all sides of politics to initiate a long overdue Senate inquiry into the spread of i...

Greens call on Plibersek to act on global leadership in oceans protection promise

28 August, 2022 - The Greens have called on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to take a leading role in convening an emergency meeting with UN member states ...

Public confidence in Australia’s environment laws undermined by Tasmanian and federal bureaucrats

25 August, 2022 - Public confidence in Australia’s environment laws has been undermined by disturbing reports of Tasmanian and federal bureaucrats politicising ...

Ocean acreage release demonstrates why Labor cannot be trusted to meet its own weak climate target

24 August, 2022 - Labor has made a mockery of its own weak climate target by offering up 46,758 square kilometres of new ocean acreage for fossil fuel companies...

Greens urge Labor to recommit opposition to PEP-11

15 August, 2022 - The Greens urge Labor to publicly recommit its opposition to PEP-11 after revelations of the former PM’s extraordinary intervention to kill th...

Great Barrier Reef survival = no more oil and gas

4 August, 2022 - The Greens welcome reports of record coral recovery on parts of the Great Barrier Reef but warn the Government not to jeopardise its survival b...

Whish-Wilson gains highest Greens Senate result across Australia

16 June, 2022 - Today it is finally official: lutruwita/Tasmania’s federal election preferences have been formally distributed and Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wi...

Fisheries buyout from climate change indictment on federal government

17 May, 2022 - In an unprecedented intervention by the federal government fisheries permits will be bought-out for the first time in Australia’s history because...

Greens plan to save our Tassie devil

14 May, 2022 - The Greens have outlined a plan to save the Tasmanian devil and called on the Liberals and Labor to adopt the comprehensive measures required to ...

Greens pledge an Active Transport Network for nipaluna/Hobart

13 May, 2022 - Nipaluna/Hobart will be at the centre of an exciting national trial to roll out more bicycle infrastructure under an $18m fully-costed plan launc...

Kick Morrison out to save the Reef

11 May, 2022 - The Greens say confirmation in the Reef Snapshot: Summer 2021-22 of the sixth mass coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef lays bare the Morris...