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The 2023 EPA Greenhouse Gas Guidelines

2 July, 2023 - WA’s Environmental Protection Authority Greenhouse Gas Guidelines were recently revised, but they can only recommend rather than regulate By N...

Rent Freezes and Pixie Dust

2 July, 2023 - Some economists reject The Greens proposal of a rent freeze, arguing it will have many negative consequences. However, real life is more complica...

10 years too long

2 July, 2023 - From the reinstatement of offshore processing for refugees arriving by boat ten years ago, injustice to refugees continues, and is planned to con...

Affordable Health Care

2 July, 2023 - Healthcare should be free at the point of delivery with no co-payments, which are in fact taxes on illness. Part of the reason why bulk billing r...

Defence – Against Who, What?

2 July, 2023 - Is the recent Australian Strategic Defence Review justifying AUKUS or did AUKUS predetermine the outcomes of that Review”? In either case both ar...

All You Need is Love

2 July, 2023 - Some thoughts relevant to Banksia Hill By Beverley Dight, Green Issue Co-editor It has been found that without being loved as a child, peop...

Dorinda Cox's June Update

2 July, 2023 - Voice to Parliament and the voices of community By Senator Dorinda Cox I’m reflecting on the last two months of parliament and community wo...

Brad Pettitt's June Update

2 July, 2023 - Querying the state budget and addressing housing and homelessness, First Nations Reconciliation, youth justice, political donations, crackdown on...

Funding round opens for sustainable clubs

30 June, 2023 - Minister for Gaming Shane Rattenbury has announced the annual Diversification and Sustainability Support Fund (DSSF) Tier 2 Funding Round opened...

Polling shows highest ever support for free uni and TAFE

30 June, 2023 - Independent polling commissioned by the office of Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi shows that m...

Senate hearings show 'Green Wall Street' won't protect nature & should be binned

30 June, 2023 - Responding to evidence presented at the hearing into the Government’s Nature Repair Market Bill held today in Canberra, Greens spokesp...

Nature Repair Market should be scrapped in light of Plibersek’s offsets audit

29 June, 2023 - Responding to Environment Minister Plibersek’s announcement of an environmental offsets audit, Greens spokesperson for the Environment Senator S...

Is Labor up to the task of its Zero Extinction pledge?

29 June, 2023 - Minister Plibersek must show the strong political leadership necessary to uphold her own Zero Extinctions pledge and save the Tasmanian Maugean ...

Senate Inquiry into ADHD Care to hold historic first public hearing today.

29 June, 2023 - The Senate inquiry into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Assessment and support services in Australia will this week convene for ...

Mining billionaires silence First Nations voices on WA cultural heritage

28 June, 2023 - Western Australia’s new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act comes into effect on July 1. A one-year delay, until July 2024, has been rushed thro...