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Greens call on Palaszczuk government to move away from youth detention

27 July, 2016 - The Queensland Greens are calling on the state Labor government to move away from imprisoning young people and invest more in rehabilitation and...

Royal Commission into youth detention should be national: Greens

27 July, 2016 -  The Royal Commission into youth detention should be national, with evidence of abuse in other states deserving of investigation, say the Austra...

Greens call for Royal Commission to reach beyond Northern Territory

26 July, 2016 - The Australian Greens have welcomed the dismissal of the Northern Territory's Corrections Minister and the decision to establish a Royal Commiss...

NT Greens: If the Federal Government do not sack the NT Government, the people must in August

26 July, 2016 - The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory must resign immediately. The Greens candidate for Braitling, Dalton Dupuy, says: “The current NT go...

Greens call for Royal Commission to reach beyond Northern Territory

26 July, 2016 - The Australian Greens have welcomed the dismissal of the Northern Territory's Corrections Minister and the decision to establish a Royal Commiss...

Radical overhaul of income support towards actuarial approach must be done properly: Greens

25 July, 2016 - The Australian Greens said today the Government's new approach to targeting support to people on income support could be very positive but it mu...

Greens call on Premier to remove discrimination against LGBTI students

25 July, 2016 - Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber has called on Premier Andrews to support the Greens bill to remove discrimination against LGBTI children fro...

Ban Greyhound Racing in WA

22 July, 2016 - Lynn and the Greens believe that humans have a responsibility to minimise any suffering of animals caused by human activities, and to maximise t...

Qld Labor must release reported bid for federal funding of Adani coal railway to devastate the Reef

22 July, 2016 - The Greens are calling on the Palaszczuk Government to release its reported funding application to the federal Northern Australia Infrastructure...

My election

21 July, 2016 - Rosanne Bersten The electorate campaign manager Name: Jo Maguire-Rosier Role: Campaign manager for Higgins (unpaid to start with, then paid) Ag...

Greens Call for Ban on Greyhound Racing in WA

20 July, 2016 - Hon Lynn MacLaren Greens MLC will call for an end to greyhound racing in Western Australia at the Perth ‘March for the Murdered Million’ this Su...

Greens call for further reform to Queensland political donations laws

19 July, 2016 - The Queensland Greens have welcomed the announcement by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that donations to political parties and candidates will be...

Corflute Creativity

18 July, 2016 - Lenore Keough At the end of any election campaign, we are always faced with the dilemma of what to do with the election signs, or corflutes. If ...

We Can Shut Down Greyhound Racing

18 July, 2016 - Dr Mehreen Faruqi On 7 July, the NSW government announced it would ban greyhound racing from 2017. This was a huge win for the Greens and the ma...

Political characters we love to hate

18 July, 2016 - Nathan Hart Reality TV programs dominate our screens (and ratings) these days. With the commercial networks feeding our desire for controversy, ...