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Greens welcome resignation of Rio Tinto bosses but cultural shift is needed across the mining industry

16 September, 2020 - The Greens say that the resignation of Rio CEO Mr Jacques is a good sign that the company is taking some responsibility for the Juukan Gorg...

Targets out and gas in: Liberals and Labor play with matches while our world burns

15 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says today is a grim day for the climate, with the Prime Minister revealing plans to gas-fire Austral...

Don’t dump on SA: major flaws in bill for proposed nuclear waste dump

15 September, 2020 - The Greens strongly oppose the bill to establish a nuclear waste dump at Kimba. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator for South Austra...

Labor split on nuclear waste dump

15 September, 2020 - The Greens are calling on the Labor Leader in the Senate, Penny Wong to declare where her party stands on the proposed Nuclear Waste Dump i...

Unis Inquiry Reveals Widespread Dissatisfaction With Bill

15 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said the first day of the Senate Inquiry into the Job-ready Graduates l...

Gas industry wishlist a fracking nightmare: Bandt

14 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has today slammed a proposed wishlist from Australia's peak gas body that would see the metha...

Greens condemn Adani for silencing climate activist

11 September, 2020 - Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to grant Adani a temporary injunction to silence anti-Adani activist Ben Pennings, Senator for Q...

Leave science to the scientists: Guy Barnett must release bushfire information

10 September, 2020 - Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has called on Tasmanian Minister for Resources Guy Barnett to not withhold critical information needed for bushf...

Cost of fast-tracking tax cuts could fund $225b of recovery investment instead, new PBO costings reveal

10 September, 2020 - As calls grow for a $220b infrastructure spend to tackle the recession, new costings completed by the Parliamentary Budget Office, at the r...

Horse Register Commitment Welcome But Now The Work Must Begin

10 September, 2020 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Australian Government’s response to the Senate inquir...

Australian Greens build anti-racism strategy to combat rising alt-right hate

9 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has today announced a portfolio redistribution that will see Lidia Thorpe and Mehreen Faruqi ta...

Time for vote on ICAC bill one year on

9 September, 2020 - The Morrison government still refuses to call the Greens bill to establish a federal corruption watchdog on for a vote, one year after it pa...

Greens announce new party room lineup to push for Green New Deal and compassionate pandemic recovery

9 September, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt MP has announced the lineup of his new Greens team, following Lidia Thorpe's first Party Room Me...

Senator Lidia Thorpe takes on First Nations portfolio

9 September, 2020 - Gunnai and Gunditjmara woman, Senator Lidia Thorpe, is thrilled to have been handed the responsibility of the First Nations portfolio in the...

What Tasmania tells the world about threatened species

7 September, 2020 - On National Threatened Species Day, Senator Whish-Wilson and Rosalie Woodruff MP highlight proposed EPBC law changes and the implications th...