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Stephen King movie promotion a horror story for Australian wildlife

5 September, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Whish-Wilson, has called on Village Roadshow to stop tying red helium balloons to stormwater...

Government flatly refusing to suspend the drug-testing trial in Logan shows supreme arrogance: Greens

4 September, 2017 - News that the Mayor for Logan travelled to Canberra on Monday to request that the Federal Government suspend drug testing trials in the regi...

Goldfields now largest trial site for Cashless Welfare Card

4 September, 2017 - The announcement by the Prime Minister today confirming that the Goldfields will be the next trial site for the cashless welfare card is ext...

GREENS PUSH TO EXTEND RET, WARN LABOR NOT TO CAPITULATE ON COAL

4 September, 2017 - Greens push to extend RET, warn Labor not to capitulate on coal Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP has introduced l...

Turnbull, this is not about 'practical love', it's about control

4 September, 2017 - "Malcolm Turnbull's claims that the further rollout of the cashless welfare card is about 'practical love' is nonsense, this is about contro...

Turnbull, this is not about 'practical love', it's about control

4 September, 2017 - "Malcolm Turnbull's claims that the further rollout of the cashless welfare card is about 'practical love' is nonsense, this is about contro...

Government flatly refusing to suspend the drug-testing trial in Logan shows supreme arrogance: Greens

4 September, 2017 - News that the Mayor for Logan travelled to Canberra on Monday to request that the Federal Government suspend drug testing trials in the regi...

Goldfields now largest trial site for Cashless Welfare Card

4 September, 2017 - The announcement by the Prime Minister today confirming that the Goldfields will be the next trial site for the cashless welfare card is ext...

Beyond terra nullius

2 September, 2017 - Chris Johansen Growing up in the 1950s my only exposure to aborigines was fleeting glances of humpies on the outskirts of country towns, as ...

Alison’s Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Alison Xamon MLC It has been quite the hiatus since my last contribution to Green Issue (2013!). I am very pleased to be back. A big tha...

Reflections of a councillor

2 September, 2017 - Cliff Collinson Can you start with a few snapshots of East Fremantle Council? Well, its small: 4000 electors represented by eight councillor...

Green Issue: Editorial August 2017

2 September, 2017 - The Green Issue Editors We were shocked and saddened to learn that Senator Scott Ludlum had to step down due to the dual citizenship fiasco....

Local Government and Climate Change

2 September, 2017 - Chris Johansen All of the relevant measurements – global temperatures, melting ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels, coral bleaching, ...