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Weekend penalty rates safe until December but legislation needed to protect for good: Bandt

9 September, 2016 - Greens Employment and Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said that workers and their families across Australia will be re...

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Greens pen letter to PM explaining how Royal Commission into youth detention can be national yet timely

9 September, 2016 - Following more revelations of mistreatment of young people and Amnesty’s report on Queensland detention Australian Greens Senator Rachel Sie...

ARENA funds 1,172 Queensland solar jobs while Labor and LNP plan its downfall

8 September, 2016 -   Greens Deputy Leader and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters today said the 1,172 Queensland jobs funded by the Australian Renewable Energy ...

World Heritage for threatened Burrup Peninsula reveals deep divisions in Government

8 September, 2016 - Tuesday, 23 August WA Greens Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson Robin Chapple MLC has welcomed the WA Nationals support for World Heritage List...

Modernised laws don’t go far enough to protect biodiversity - Greens

8 September, 2016 - “The biodiversity of Western Australia deserves better protection than that afforded in the Biodiversity Conservation Bill,” Greens spokespe...

KalMiner letter response RC roadmap

8 September, 2016 - Dear Editor, I would like to address comments made by Nicholas Fardell (on behalf of Nationals WA?) in his letter on Saturday, 16 July title...

Delays in anti-protest laws a win for democracy - Greens

8 September, 2016 - “The rallying cries from a coalition of voices in civil society and my year-long efforts which served to prolong debate and delay the Anti-P...

WA should be allowed to accommodate refugees held offshore - Greens

8 September, 2016 - 18 August, 2016 WA Greens member for the Mining and Pastoral Region Robin Chapple MLC has today welcomed statements by Premier Colin Barnett...

Foreign-owned farm register a step in the right direction for farmers

8 September, 2016 - Foreign-owned farm register a step in the right direction for farmers The Greens say the activation of the new foreign-owned farm register i...

Sovereign risk issue first raised by Greens MP

8 September, 2016 - Friday, 26 August WA Greens Member for the Mining and Pastoral Region Robin Chapple MLC has labelled the ongoing debate around iron ore roya...

Business backing and ARENA grants increase pressure on Bill Shorten

8 September, 2016 - Greens Energy & Climate spokesperson Adam Bandt today said the Australian Renewable Energy Agency's awarding of federal grants to 12 large-s...

Infrastructure: Some states show the feds how it's done

8 September, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, today called on federal Liberal and Labor to take a lesson from their state counte...