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238,000 Signature Petition Against Live Export tabled in Australian Senate

16 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has today tabled more than 238,000 signatures from a petition in the A...

Cross-party Bill to get kids off Nauru

16 October, 2018 - The Greens will co-sponsor a Bill to get children and their families off Nauru to receive medical treatment in Australia. “This Bill is a dir...

ABC political interference will be investigated

16 October, 2018 - The Australian Greens have welcomed the Senate’s support in establishing an inquiry into the ABC, which will investigate recent instances of ...

The cruelty must end, let’s get #KidsOffNauru

16 October, 2018 - Children and their families languishing on Nauru must be brought to Australia to receive the care they need, Greens Senator for South Austral...

Greens support APVMA inquiry, call for independent review of glyphosate

16 October, 2018 - As the Greens voted to support the establishment of a Senate inquiry into the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, Green...

Greens' bill is PM's chance to 'act right now' on ending discrimination for LGBT+ students

16 October, 2018 - Greens LGBTIQ+ spokesperson Senator Janet Rice today said that voting for the Greens’ bill to end exemptions to anti-discrimination laws that...

Governments must do more to end harmful LGBT+ conversion attempts: Greens

15 October, 2018 - Following the release of the report into LGBT+ conversion attempts by La Trobe University, the Human Rights Law Centre and Gay and Lesbian He...

Greens put fresh roadblock in way of Adani

15 October, 2018 - Today a Greens motion passed the Senate demanding that the Government stop Adani’s pipeline application from being assessed until the federal...

Senate must work together to clear the air on ABC interference

15 October, 2018 - The cloud that hangs over the independence of the ABC has come no closer to being cleared following the release of the Government’s departmen...

It’s not too late to defeat the TPP, Labor

15 October, 2018 - The Australian Greens are calling on the Labor Party to dump its support of the dodgy TPP ahead of the debate in the Senate today.   “The do...

NSW Coalition agreement with pokies clubs shows gambling vested interests in control in NSW

14 October, 2018 - The Greens NSW have slammed today's announcement that the NSW Coalition have signed a new pre-election agreement with Clubs NSW that will loc...

More turn up and go services for trains and trams under Greens' plan

13 October, 2018 - The Victorian Greens have announced a plan to deliver turn up and go services every 10 minutes between 6am and 9pm, seven days a week, on Mel...

Greens express deep concern over Baha'i persecution in Yemen

12 October, 2018 - Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale expressed his deep concern at news that 24 Yemenis of the Baha’i faith, including a child, continue t...

IPCC Report shows it's time to get real and drop magical thinking about 'clean' coal

12 October, 2018 - The IPCC special report released this week noted that solar and wind energy and electricity storage technologies had advanced "dramatically",...