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Wasteful plebiscite damaging for LGBTI Australians, Lynn MacLaren warns

14 March, 2016 - Previous estimates of the cost of a marriage equality failed to account for the costs of major social damage, while wasting hundreds of million...

Greens call on Shorten to announce increase to draft climate targets at Press Club

14 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling on Bill Shorten to announce science-based climate pollution reduction targets in his National Press Club addr...

Greens support national day of action against cashless welfare card

12 March, 2016 -   The Australian Greens support rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as part of a national weekend of action against the Cashless Welfare ...

Greens’ Montague Rd makeover

12 March, 2016 - 12/03/2016 Senator Waters joined Gabba Ward Candidate Jonathan Sri today to launch the Greens’ makeover plan for Montague Rd ahead of party’s b...

Liberals’ support for climate sceptic motion is anti-science and anti-jobs

11 March, 2016 - 11/03/2016 The motion adopted by the NSW Liberals calling on the Turnbull Government to arrange public debates on whether climate change is rea...

Greens call for Senate inquiry on rehabilitation to secure jobs as Peabody crumbles and majors exit

11 March, 2016 - 11/03/2016 The Australian Greens are calling for a Senate inquiry on mining and resources rehabilitation to secure jobs in affected communities...

Greens call for blue-green algae plan

11 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce to take action following an outbreak of blue-green algae in the River ...

University students need extra support, not higher fees

11 March, 2016 - The Greens say the government must abandon its plans to increase university student fees and instead focus on building a sector that provides q...

Greens call for Obama-Trudeau-style audit as fracking climate pollution grows

11 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for a Australia to follow US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau who have agreed to better mo...

Forestry Managed Investment Schemes: $4 Billion more reasons for a Royal Commission

11 March, 2016 - The Senate Economics Committee has today released its report into the collapse of forestry MIS in Australia, detailing the rise and fall of a $...

Govt’s rhetoric means nothing to domestic violence victims if they can’t get leave from work to escape

11 March, 2016 - 11/03/2016 Reports today that the Turnbull Liberal Government is presiding over the slashing of domestic violence leave for public servants put...

Greens call for Obama-Trudeau-style audit as fracking climate pollution grows

11 March, 2016 - 11/03/2016 The Australian Greens are calling for a Australia to follow US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau who have agreed t...

Greens call for Senate inquiry on rehabilitation to secure jobs as Peabody crumbles and majors exit

11 March, 2016 - The Australian Greens are calling for a Senate inquiry on mining and resources rehabilitation to secure jobs in affected communities as reports...

Public funding to non-government schools not transparent or accountable- Greens

10 March, 2016 - A new Auditor-General report shows that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars is being handed to non-government schools every year, but nobo...

Why Shave?

10 March, 2016 - On Saturday 12 March Scott will face the clippers at the Worl'd's Greatest Shave event in Perth. Here he talks to Serina Dosen, a Perth woman w...