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Zero carbon grid possible by 2040

30 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt has today said the release of the final system plan for Australia's energy grid showed that a transit...

Plastics hearing reveals decades of flawed recycling policy

29 July, 2020 - Witnesses today outlined their frustration with decades-long recycling policy failure in today’s hearing into the Packaging and Plastics Bill 20...

COVID Committee gas report shows fossil fuel sector letting manufacturing

29 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said reporting of a National COVID Commission presentation on natural gas showed a growing disconn...

No Modelling, No Worries: Liberals

29 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the government’s plan to hike up university fees should be scrappe...

Greens seek PM's support for COVID leave bill

29 July, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has written to the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, seeking time when Parliament resumes in August to pass a Greens’ b...

Wildlife toll shows environment needs stronger protections

29 July, 2020 - With a revised tally of killed or displaced wildlife from the summer’s bushfires coming in at three times initial estimates, it’s clear now is n...

Government continues attack on Reef science

28 July, 2020 - The Coalition and One Nation have cemented their position as science denialists, having spent Monday badgering some of Australia’s peak scientif...

Shadow Minister puts Labor in lockstep with Liberals on climate

28 July, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says statements today from Labor’s Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Resources, Joel Fitzgibbon, put the...

Unions, welfare groups & Greens all back jobs over tax cuts

28 July, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has commended peak worker and social services groups for coming out hard against the proposed accel...

Costings show bringing forward tax cuts would cost an extra $28 billion

27 July, 2020 - The Australian Greens have released costings from the Parliamentary Budget Office on the cost of bringing forward income tax cuts. The costings ...

Greens welcome Liberal Minister’s comments and call on Labor to join the fight.

25 July, 2020 - The Greens have welcomed the intervention from NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean who has broken ranks today with the Federal Government over pl...

States and territories should tell PM today they won't stand for weakening of environment laws

24 July, 2020 - State and Territory leaders should tell the Prime Minister today they won’t stand for a further weakening of environmental laws to green light m...

PM bells the cat on plans to weaken environmental protections

24 July, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Hanson-Young responded to the PM's comments today on changes environmental laws: “The Prime Mins...

Behrouz Boochani

24 July, 2020 - Comments from Greens Immigration spokesperson Senator Nick McKim on New Zealand's decision to grant asylum to Behrouz Boochani: "New Zealand gra...

Government chooses to lock in high unemployment future

23 July, 2020 - The Greens have described today’s Economic and Fiscal Update as a plan based on austerity and fantasy projections that will lead to ongoing high...