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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Liberals must scrap mandated logging target to save Swift Parrot from extinction

22 February, 2022 - The swift parrot is on the brink of extinction, and only hundreds of birds exist. The report released today by the Wilderness Society, BirdL...

Science funding for Antarctica yet again put on ice

22 February, 2022 - Today’s Antarctic announcement from the Morrison Government is a political ploy that provides no certainty for Tasmania’s globally significa...

Morrison can't see the forest for the trees

21 February, 2022 - Today’s recycled tree planting  plan from the Prime Minister has been slammed by the Greens as little more than a cynical electioneering stu...

Expansion into Commonwealth waters smells fishy

16 February, 2022 - A controversial project to expand salmon farming into Commonwealth waters has come under fire from the Greens for its lack of transparency a...

Coalition responds 2277 days late to Senate Inquiry report

15 February, 2022 - The Morrison Government has responded six years late to a critical Senate Inquiry report on the regulation of the fin-fish aquaculture indus...

Greens demand transparency and truth on Great Barrier Reef report

2 February, 2022 - A report requested by Unesco on the state of the Great Barrier Reef remains in question after the Morrison Government’s failure to publish it...

World Wetlands Day a reminder not to let wetland protection fall by the wayside: Greens

2 February, 2022 - Wetlands are some of the largest carbon reservoirs on earth, storing more than one-third of the world’s terrestrial carbon. In the last 50 ye...

GREENS PLAN FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY

28 January, 2022 - Too much unnecessary waste is polluting our oceans and ending up in landfill while Australians are missing out on jobs because this governmen...

POLICY LAUNCH: Greens plan for circular economy

28 January, 2022 - Too much unnecessary waste is polluting our oceans and ending up in landfill while Australians are missing out on jobs because this governmen...

Greens condemn Woolnorth Road Virtual Fence Project vandalism

19 January, 2022 - The Greens have condemned the alleged vandalism that occurred last night to the Woolnorth Road Virtual Fence Project, designed to mitigate ro...

Reef Wreckers on Repeat

11 November, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Morrison Government for its relentless destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, after it tried to remove reference...

Kelp can help

28 October, 2021 - Angus Taylor was today quoted in The Australian saying, “no affordable, practical and large-scale way exists to reduce [methane from agricult...