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Government cannot defend Centrelink debacle

5 January, 2017 - Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, Treasury spokesperson for the Australian Greens, says the Turnbull Government has significant questions to answer ...

About time, say Greens, following ALP commitment to rule out Roe 8

4 January, 2017 - Greens South Metropolitan MLC Lynn MacLaren has welcomed today’s announcement from Mark McGowan that it will not proceed with Roe 8 and the Pe...

Rachel's Page

2 January, 2017 - Senator Rachel Siewert October and November are particularly intensive with parliamentary sitting weeks so the most of our work has come out o...

Lynn’s Page

2 January, 2017 - Hon Lynn MacLaren MLC The fight against Roe 8 has dominated the lead-up to Christmas for me, my team, Greens members and supporters and hundr...

Robin’s page

1 January, 2017 - Hon Robin Chapple MLC Last month, as part of our Home is Heritage campaign, I tabled a draft of my Prevention of Forced Closure of Remote Abor...

Why sport matters

1 January, 2017 - Emma Davidson Have you ever picked up the newspaper and felt like there's a lot of column inches given to discussions about rugby league or cr...

Sea Shepherd doing the government's job in the Southern Ocean

23 December, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Whaling, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson says that the Australian Government's failure to keep their promise to monitor J...

Glenside – let the Significant Tree slaughter begin

21 December, 2016 - "The likely destruction in the new year of 83 significant and regulated trees from the Glenside Health Campus is unnecessary, premature and ...

Young people lose out in MYEFO as generation gap worsens

20 December, 2016 - Australian Greens Finance and Youth spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has slammed the Turnbull government for its inaction in bridging...

PC report into copyright changes must not be the trojan horse for further attacks on Australian arts

20 December, 2016 - Proposed changes to copyright laws in Australia do nothing to protect artists and devalue their contribution to our society, The Australian ...

Racism down through the years

19 December, 2016 - Chris Johansen Recent overt manifestations of racism in Australia (e.g. 'stop the boats, the resurgence of Pauline Hansons One Nation) and g...

Forests for Life

19 December, 2016 - Jess Beckerling On Sunday 11th December economic think tank The Australia Institute published its latest report Barking Up The Wrong Trees, ...

Telling our social justice education story

19 December, 2016 - Rob Delves The Education policy story that The WA Greens want to tell in 2017 is a story about social justice. It begins with a strong state...

Indoctrinating Isabella

19 December, 2016 - Cuttlewoman What are trees? I do not know. I expect they are alien. They are killed by the sky. Thats why there are not so many of them. Can...

Watching a Beetle

19 December, 2016 - Renee Pettitt-Schipp I watch the beetle make her slow way along the path, her journey knows every rise in concrete, every sweep of mortar. ...