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Super Trawler Geelong Star leaves Australian waters in mysterious circumstances

23 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson welcomes the news that the factory-freezer vessel Geelong Star has left A...

Govt must stop pre-empting cashless welfare card success to spruik broader rollout: Greens

22 November, 2016 - Comments by the Government about rolling out the cashless welfare card more broadly come as no surprise, as that has been their agenda all a...

UNHCR says Australia is undermining global refugee system

22 November, 2016 - The UNHCR has told an inquiry into allegations of abuse in Australia's offshore detention centres that the government's policies are undermi...

Community seeks rigour on Roe 8 as Government throws policies to the wind

22 November, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren says the differences in the two sides in the decades-long fight over Roe 8 have never been more stark, with communi...

South Australia dudded by Barnaby Joyce and MDBA

22 November, 2016 - The Murray Darling Basin Authority’s attempt to increase irrigation limits in the northern basin will reduce the already insufficient amount...

WA must follow Victoria’s leadership on gas

22 November, 2016 - Tuesday, 22nd November 2016 WA Greens MLC Robin Chapple said today that Western Australia should be looking to follow Victoria’s lead in ban...

Give it a rest

22 November, 2016 - Nick McKim Dear Australian, I write to you from a bunker in Tasmania, too afraid to step outside my door as a 50-something white man of some...

Young unemployed need better transport options

21 November, 2016 - A new report highlighting the transport challenges faced by young unemployed Australians is a wakeup call for the Turnbull government to urg...

Labor, Liberal still push for TPP despite Trump

21 November, 2016 - The Labor and Liberal Parties’ decision to vote against a Senate motion calling for the end of all moves towards ratification of the Trans-P...

One Nation 'stands up' for Australians by taking $70,000 from a property developer

21 November, 2016 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters said Pauline Hanson and her party promised voters they would shake up ...

On the shoulders of giants

21 November, 2016 - A whirlwind six months in which the party has improved the professionalism of its approach to the management of financial issues with regula...

No rest for the wicked

21 November, 2016 - We couldn't achieve as much as we do without the dedication and commitment of a cast of thousands — in particular our fantastic national off...

Greens reveal: there is no business case at all for Roe 8

18 November, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren is gobsmacked after finding out through questions in Parliament that there has been no business case or other finan...

Negative gearing and CGT discounts are worsening the disparity between winners and losers

18 November, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson for Treasury, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that unless Malcolm Turnbull radically changes Australia’s econo...

Greens stand with 30,000 who oppose proposed levy for Uber users

18 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Transport Lynn MacLaren MLC has today urged the Government to scrap a levy it plans to impose upon ride-sharing serv...