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Winning for the community

16 November, 2016 - What a massive year it has been for our team and the Greens! Thanks to the people of Melbourne, hundreds of volunteers across the city and t...

Summary financial results

16 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens AUSTRALIAN GREENS (THE GREENS) INCORPORATED Income and expenditure statement for the year ended 30 June 2016 2016 ...

Democracy, aid and animals

16 November, 2016 - Positive news in 2016 included the senate reform passed in March, a ban on greyhound racing in NSW and progress in banning cosmetics tested ...

The lens of history

16 November, 2016 - Our member-driven policy platform is one of the foundations of the participatory democracy within our party. This year has been bedding down...

A voice for the people

16 November, 2016 - The last 12 months have basically been at the pace of an election; we tried our best to speak to issues that matter to the community, partic...

Immigration Department reveals gaping holes in US "Deal"

15 November, 2016 - The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has confirmed that the US is not obliged to accept a particular number of refugees, or i...

Government need to show leadership on out of home care

15 November, 2016 - The Government need to take last night’s harrowing Four Corners report seriously and act to address the flawed out of home care system that ...

Government improves restraining orders but there is more work to be done - Greens

15 November, 2016 - Proposed amendments to restraining orders legislation, which will be debated in the Upper House today, are a welcome modernisation toward br...

Turnbull’s witch-hunt against civil society threatens our democracy

15 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens today warned that the Turnbull government’s proposed legislative witch-hunt against environment groups which has now r...

Greens question Government's plan to put children in adult prisons

15 November, 2016 - Greens MP Nina Springle says the Minister for Children and Families needs to explain how long children removed from youth justice centres wi...

Nuclear Royal Commission response – no policy, no legislation, just more taxpayers’ money wasted

15 November, 2016 - The formal Government response to the Nuclear Royal Commission final report released today shows how little value was received from nearly $...

Labor putting Pauline Hanson first: Greens to test Labor on trade and jobs

15 November, 2016 - The Greens have called on Labor to ditch their embrace of Hanson rhetoric and instead of dog-whistling outside of Parliament, back the Green...

Time for Turnbull to come clean on US deal

14 November, 2016 - The federal government's must end its secrecy over its "deal" with the United States to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru. "The ...

Future of James Price Point and Burrup Peninsula still hang in the balance

14 November, 2016 - Monday, 14 November Both James Price Point and Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula) will have their heritage status reassessed at next month’s Aborig...