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Properly consult the community on the Western Distributor

25 February, 2016 - Victoiran Greens call on the Andrews Government to put the environment and community first and conduct proper community consultation as part...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Auditor finds no evidence PSOs improve safety

24 February, 2016 - Greens transport spokeperson Samantha Dunn says the latest Auditor General report has found no evidence that PSOs improve safety at railway ...

The World's Greatest Shave

24 February, 2016 - Senator Scott Ludlam has risen to the challenge and hopes to raise $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation in the World’s Greatest Shave. He ex...

We need more than a Band-Aid approach to help Pacific neighbours with extreme weather

24 February, 2016 - Responding to the devastation Cyclone Winston brought to Fiji, the Greens have called for more humanitarian assistance for Fiji, an overall ...

Senate condemns WA anti-protest laws

24 February, 2016 - A Greens motion calling on the WA Government to abandon its anti-protest laws that have been condemned by United Nations has been supported ...

They have had 25 years to fix the date say the Greens

24 February, 2016 - 24/02/2016 The Electoral Commission Queensland has just released the Official Yes and No Cases for the upcoming referendum. The arguments ha...