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Koalas Need Urgent Intervention to Save Remaining Habitat

14 January, 2019 - Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations and their Habitat, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says that the government must prote...

SMART drumline trial on Sydney's Northern Beaches should mean the removal of destructive shark nets

11 January, 2019 - The Greens NSW are calling for the removal of shark nets on Sydney's Northern Beaches following the announcement that a trial of SMART d...

Greens call for emergency water measures in wake of unprecedented fish kill

9 January, 2019 - The Federal Water Minister must force the NSW and QLD Governments to urgently invoke their powers and embargo the cotton industry’s water extr...

Fish, minus environmental water, equals mass death events

8 January, 2019 - More reports of dead native fish floating in their thousands in the Lower Darling sends a dreadful signal on the health of the River.   “This...

Greens Call for Inquiry into Horse Traceability Across Australia

8 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has launched a campaign for an inquiry into a National Horse Traceabili...

Saudi woman trapped in Bangkok must be brought to Australia: Greens

7 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has called on the Liberal Government to issue emergency travel documents to a young Saudi woman t...

Green Issue: Editorial December 2018

6 January, 2019 - By the Green Issue Editors In the months leading to the expected May 2019 federal election, the Editors want each edition of Green Issue to...

Owning a Home

6 January, 2019 - By Jesse Hutchinson, Greens Candidate for Fremantle From as young as I can remember I’ve always been fascinated by houses and more broadly ...

Housing Nothing but our Hopes

6 January, 2019 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor So, what is the ‘Australian dream’? Let’s lay it out. It’s a three-bedroom house on a quarter acre block with a...

Housing First to Tackle Homelessness

6 January, 2019 - By Jaiden Coonan*, Fremantle-Tangney Greens The state government is preparing to release its draft report on its 10 year strategy to end ho...

Housing for All

6 January, 2019 - By Rob Delves, GI Co-editor The Greens policy to build 500,000 affordable rental homes is absolutely correct… But Where’s the money going t...

Rising Temperatures

6 January, 2019 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor Although ‘economics’ is derided as the ‘dismal science’, I would suggest that an even more dismal one is ‘c...

GIG in Action

6 January, 2019 - By Sean Bruce-Cullen, GIG WA Rep The Global Issues Working Group (GIG) is a national working group of the Australian Greens that includes (...

Jordon Steele-John’s December Update

6 January, 2019 - By Senator Jordon Steele-John What an incredible whirlwind the last year has been! Just over one year ago to the day we found out that our ...

Robin Chapple’s December Update

5 January, 2019 - By Hon. Robin Chapple, MLC for Mining and Pastoral This year, your Greens (WA) team has been busy kicking goals and getting wins across the...