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NBN/AFP raids set troubling precedence

24 August, 2016 - The Australian Greens are deeply troubled by the AFP raids inside Parliament House today and have called on NBN management to simply come clea...

Kids at risk if new pokies for Coach & Horses approved

24 August, 2016 - An application from Collingwood Football Club to increase the number of machines from 80 to 90 at the Coach & Horses Ringwood (City of Maroond...

Greens fix glaring flaws in Government’s biodiversity laws

24 August, 2016 - The Greens have successfully amended the Government's new biodiversity legislation to address two of its most glaring flaws: the so-called 'Go...

Roe 8 verdict: Dark day for respect for the views of Traditional Owners

24 August, 2016 - Responding to the Supreme Court decision today to reject the challenge to the Aboriginal heritage approval for Roe 8, Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren...

Government needs to act to stop more veterans’ suicides

23 August, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Veterans’ Affairs, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today called on the government to act on the recommendations of the rec...

Government fence-sits on RSPCA following year-long inquiry

23 August, 2016 - After a year-long inquiry the Government’s response to a Parliamentary report on the operations of the RSPCA is a non-event,  Greens MLC Lynn ...

Greens call on Premier to urge Federal Government to abandon plebiscite on marriage equality

23 August, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren has called on the Premier to urge his Federal Liberal colleagues to abandon plans to hold a plebiscite on marriage eq...

CLP secretly signing Territory away

23 August, 2016 - The Giles government secretly signed away 15,000 square kilometres of Northern Territory land for coal mining and exploration south of Alice S...

Federal Environment Minister is undermining Aboriginal Heritage Protections

23 August, 2016 - Greens Senator for Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson, says that new Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg, by joining with the Hodgman Government in...

Change the conversation to change rape culture

23 August, 2016 - Tammy Franks Recently in Parliament, I spoke about rape culture. Starting a conversation about a culture that incites violence against women i...

Morrison should take a look in the mirror to see what’s frustrating super funds

22 August, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for finance, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, responded to Scott Morrison’s exhalations about superannuation funds’ level of in...

Biodiversity Conservation Bill 2015 Speech - Video

22 August, 2016 - Will the Barnett Government's proposed new biodiversity conservation laws stop the heartbreaking extinction rate of Western Australia's unique...

Greens join peak welfare bodies in opposing energy supplement cut

22 August, 2016 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has welcomed a joint letter from peak welfare organisations opposing the Government’s cut to the ener...

GREENS MESSAGES GROWING LEGS

22 August, 2016 - Around Alice Springs, many of the Greens campaign corflutes have gone mysteriously missing.Greens candidate for Braitling, Dalton Dupuy, says,...