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Turnbull tax tinkerer, not reformer: Greens

25 February, 2016 - Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today said reports that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is backing down from tax reform and inste...

20,000 (and counting) support Safe School Coalition petition

25 February, 2016 - The Australian Greens are delighted to announce the petition calling for support for the Safe Schools Coalition has received more than 20,00...

Science not shark ‘bite-offs’ should guide fishery decisions

25 February, 2016 - Greens MLC Lynn MacLaren MLC says suggestions that the number of shark ‘bite-offs’ should be used as an evidential basis for an expansion of...

Labor and Liberal vote against Greens move to keep Australian born babies safe

25 February, 2016 - A move by the Australian Greens that would have allowed babies who were born in Australia to stay here, rather than be sent to Nauru, has be...

Support and Justice for Atomic Veterans

25 February, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia—Co-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (11:37):  I rise today to speak to Senator Lambie's bill and to...

Andrew Nikolic: Wrong on most things. Right on one thing. 12 submarines is a “Rudd Pluck”

25 February, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Defence Senator Peter Whish-Wilson provides the following comments on the reports Australia has locked in the acquis...

Defence White Paper: From a budget emergency to South China Seas emergency?

25 February, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Defence Peter Whish-Wilson provides the following comments on today’s announcement that Australia is joining and con...

Don’t Merge ABC & SBS: Greens

25 February, 2016 - Any merger of the ABC and SBS would be in name only, it would more closely resemble a takeover of SBS and NITV by the ABC, the Australian Gr...

After Asha

25 February, 2016 - Emma Davidson and Rosanne Bersten For 10 days, unions, community groups and refugee rights organisations camped, rallied, sang, and even sle...

O-Week: Let's go!

25 February, 2016 - Pat Dollard Beyond the lectures and endless hours spent studying for exams, universities provide opportunities to become involved in your ca...

20 questions for Gösta Lyngå

25 February, 2016 - Emma Davidson Name: Gösta Lyngå Age: 85 Role with the Greens: Councillor in Sweden, Member of Swedish Parliament, founding member of ACT Gre...

Who benefits from the economy?

25 February, 2016 - Greta Werner Another Greens member recently told me they thought economics as a whole was about as bad as 'selling your grandmother'. Many p...

Like Abbott never left

25 February, 2016 - Senator Richard Di Natale Malcolm Turnbull has made no changes to the Direct Action sham, Abbott's pathetic pollution reduction targets, or ...

The Fantasy Economics of the SA Royal Commission

24 February, 2016 - Senator LUDLAM (Western Australia—Co-Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (15:05): I would like to briefly take note of Senator Canavan's...

More money for military hardware despite no change to threat level

24 February, 2016 - Senator Whish-Wilson said, "Reports today about the Defence White Paper suggest that the paper will indicate that the threat level to Austra...