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Six Communities United in Opposition to Government’s Nuclear Waste Dump Plans

1 March, 2016 - Representatives from each of the six communities shortlisted as potential sites for a nuclear waste dump were hosted by the Greens in Parliament...

Broome lock up changes small part of larger picture

1 March, 2016 - Thursday 25 February, 2016 Robin Chapple MLC, the Greens member for the Mining and Pastoral region, has acknowledged that the Broome police have...

The Tivoli must be saved say the Greens

1 March, 2016 - 01/03/2016 The Tivoli is not currently heritage protected. However, even if it were listed on the heritage register, its location within the Sta...

Six Communities United in Opposition to Government’s Nuclear Waste Dump Plans

1 March, 2016 - Representatives from each of the six communities shortlisted as potential sites for a nuclear waste dump were hosted by the Greens in Parliament...

Logging native of forests fails the test, time to end RFA destruction

1 March, 2016 - Logging native of forests fails the test, time to end RFA destruction Tasmania’s failure to get obtain Forest Stewardship Council certification ...

20 Questions for Lynn MacLaren

1 March, 2016 - Emma Davidson Name: Lynn MacLaren Age: 53 Role with the Greens: Member of Legislative Council, WA. 1. What do you remember about your first elec...

Volunteer stories: Higgins

1 March, 2016 - Ling Toong It's Saturday afternoon in Melbourne, and the weather is typically indecisive, swinging between teasing sun and recidivist clouds. Wi...

Lent: 40 days of protest

1 March, 2016 - Sarah Nielsen-Harvey It was the second day of the Perth heatwave with a predicted 43 degrees. It was also the first day of Lent. But most import...

Ecological Thinning Opens Door to Logging in NSW National Parks

29 February, 2016 - Ecological Thinning Opens Door to Logging in NSW National Parks The Greens have called on the NSW government to abandon plans of ‘ecological...

The Queensland Greens have officially launched their referendum No Campaign today

29 February, 2016 - 29/02/2016 The referendum asking voters to approve an increase in the term of the state government from three years to four years is being h...

Stop applying Band-Aids to the broken VET sector

29 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens are urging the government to scrap using taxpayer money on the broken for-profit VET sector rather than trying to prot...

So which tax scare campaign is it?

29 February, 2016 - Today the Australian Senate called on the government to clarify which of their contradictory scare campaigns they plan on proceeding with. "...

Homophobic pamphlet window into anti-marriage equality campaign

29 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens have warned a homophobic pamphlet distributed by former a Liberal MP is a window into the campaign being planned by op...

Senate supports Greens motion calling on Government to combat child poverty

29 February, 2016 - The Senate has supported a Greens motion calling on the Government to combat child poverty and adopt a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy. ...

Which Housing Scare Campaign?

29 February, 2016 - *1050 Senator Ludlam: To move- That the Senate  (a) notes that the assertions by:  (i) the Assistant Treasurer (Ms O'Dwyer) that reforming n...