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Peter Whish-Wilson
Senator for lutruwita/Tasmania

Greens pledge $580M to fix Tassie’s health system

18 March, 2022 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said that in balance of power in the Senate after the next election, the Greens will use thei...

Protecting Marine Life and Mitigating Risk of Shark Bites

10 March, 2022 - The Federal Government has an important role to play in protecting endangered marine life killed by lethal shark nets and drumlines deployed by...

If the Government did its job, we'd have policies that clean up Australia every day

6 March, 2022 - The Greens have called out the Morrison Government’s refusal to mandate waste and recycling targets as a key reason Aussies will again be found ...

Greens ready to hold government to account on plastics treaty

3 March, 2022 - The Greens have welcomed the UN agreement to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution by 2024, but warned Australia not to take a two-year...

Greens welcome offshore oil and gas exploration ban in NSW

23 February, 2022 - The NSW Government’s decision to ban offshore oil and gas exploration has been welcomed by the Greens, who have commended the coastal commun...

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...