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We must act on fundamental flaws to Murray Darling Basin Plan for river to flourish

2 March, 2017 - The Murray Darling Basin Plan has been fundamentally flawed from the beginning and needs to be fixed, the Australian Greens have said in respons...

ANAO report highlights failures of DHS compliance measures and recent events show it’s getting worse: Greens

1 March, 2017 - An Australian National Audit Office report shows a dysfunctional crackdown on the social safety net before the large scale automated debt recove...

Unconventional gas could be worse than coal: we need a national fracking ban

1 March, 2017 - The Australian Greens today reiterated their call for a national ban on fracking in light of reports that unconventional gas fracking could be w...

Unconventional gas could be worse than coal: we need a national fracking ban

1 March, 2017 - The Australian Greens today reiterated their call for a national ban on fracking in light of reports that unconventional gas fracking could be w...

ANAO report highlights failures of DHS compliance measures and recent events show it’s getting worse: Greens

1 March, 2017 - An Australian National Audit Office report shows a dysfunctional crackdown on the social safety net before the large scale automated debt recove...

Victorians crying out for PT funding

1 March, 2017 - With reports the federal and Victorian governments are close to an agreement on infrastructure spending, the Greens say public transport project...

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert responds to Government leaking Centrelink recipient details to media

28 February, 2017 - “It is extremely concerning that the Government has willingly and openly given media the personal details of a Centrelink recipient and will...

Greens defend protections against hate speech

28 February, 2017 - The Greens will always defend protections against hate speech, and resist any weakening of the Racial Discrimination Act. Greens leader Dr R...

Estimates questioning fails to produce special secret classified cockatoo surveys

28 February, 2017 -   Commonwealth environmental regulators have once again refused to resolve the question of whether or not land-clearing at the Beeliar wetla...

Transforming Perth

28 February, 2017 - Perth is one of the best cities in the world, but at nearly 150km from end to end, we are starting to reach the limits of growth. The ten la...

Greens call on Libs to use Court Hotel campaign event to announce support for same sex marriage, Safe Schools

28 February, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for sexuality and gender identity Lynn MacLaren MLC has called on Colin Barnett and the Liberal Party to use tonight’s c...

Greens defend protections against hate speech

28 February, 2017 - The Greens will always defend protections against hate speech, and resist any weakening of the Racial Discrimination Act. Greens leader Dr R...

End the secrecy on Western Distributor

28 February, 2017 - With the Victorian government refusing to hand over the independent assessments of the Western Distributor toll road proposal to Infrastruct...

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert responds to Government leaking Centrelink recipient details to media

28 February, 2017 - “It is extremely concerning that the Government has willingly and openly given media the personal details of a Centrelink recipient and will...

Greens call for reversal of TAFE cuts

28 February, 2017 - The Greens will fight to reverse funding cuts to TAFE courses to ensure TAFE and other public technical and training is eventually universal...