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Chevron’s greedy tax fight proves it can’t be trusted with the Bight

21 April, 2017 - Chevron has proven it cannot be trusted with the pristine environment of the Great Australian Bight if they refuse to play by Australia’s tax r...

Manus Island and Nauru Senate Inquiry

21 April, 2017 - Evidence presented to the Senate inquiry into the conditions on Manus Island and Nauru should prompt the immediate closure of both offshore det...

Greens to create 5,500 jobs and rollback privatisation of Queensland’s electricity system

21 April, 2017 - The Queensland Greens have announced the second phase of their Power for People Plan, dealing with Queensland’s electricity generation sector a...

Roll Out the Barrel - Joyce’s Meddling Puts Australian Agriculture at Risk

21 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens have today labelled Barnaby Joyce’s ill-advised move of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to h...

Dutton caught in outrageous Manus Island lie

21 April, 2017 - Peter Dutton has been caught out lying about people seeking asylum on Manus Island and must resign or be sacked, Greens Immigration spokesperso...

A blight on our community

21 April, 2017 - Sue Pennicuik In 2015, Greyhound Racing came to public attention in a way it never had before following the appalling revelations of widespread...

NAPLAN testing riddled with errors – not just with the online roll out

20 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens are calling on the NAPLAN testing model to be reviewed following the latest flaw, a failed online roll-out, and reports t...

Peter Dutton's values are not Australian values

20 April, 2017 - Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull's rolling citizenship announcements are a transparently desperate attempt to win back votes from Pauline Hans...

A Potted History of Sustainability

20 April, 2017 - Chris Johansen After attending a Curtin Corner talk on 31 March given by Dr Stephen Lennon, President, United Nations Association of Australia,...

Don’t let Labor ‘snatch defeat from the jaws of victory’!

20 April, 2017 - Judy Blyth There was euphoria at the landslide victory to Labor and that for at least the next four years therell be four Greens MLCs. It seeme...

Finance Minister refuses to answer basic questions about finance

20 April, 2017 - Finance Minister Matthias Cormann is either deliberately misleading, or dangerously incompetent, or both, given his inability to provide the mo...

Overcrowded, unreliable V/line trains are here to stay

20 April, 2017 - Regional train travellers should prepare to stand for long periods, with V/line CEO James Pinder today conceding there is no plan to cut overcr...

NAPLAN testing riddled with errors – not just with the online roll out

20 April, 2017 - The Australian Greens are calling on the NAPLAN testing model to be reviewed following the latest flaw, a failed online roll-out, and reports t...

Peter Dutton's values are not Australian values

20 April, 2017 - Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull's rolling citizenship announcements are a transparently desperate attempt to win back votes from Pauline Hans...

Victorian ‘environment’ minister opposes plastic bag ban

20 April, 2017 - Victoria’s environment department today outsourced the role of reducing marine plastic pollution to the big supermarkets, refusing to back the ...