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Where is the Environment Minister?

9 January, 2020 - The Federal Environment Minister is missing in action despite reports that more than a billion native animals have been impacted and killed in...

Greens call for ‘Fighting Fund’ for the environment decimated by fires

8 January, 2020 - The Greens have called on the Prime Minister to establish a ‘Fighting Fund’ for the environment to restore and protect the flora and fauna dec...

Greens call for Government support for wildlife carers, native animal inquiry following devastating bushfires

7 January, 2020 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called for State and Federal Governments to provide ...

Greens call on Federal Govt to take urgent action for bushfire-affected wildlife

6 January, 2020 - With an estimated half a billion native animals killed by the devastating bushfires across Australia, the Greens are calling on the Federal Go...

Greens call for Emergency Summit, Royal Commission into Bushfire Crisis

1 January, 2020 - The bushfires devastating communities across regional New South Wales and Victoria require an emergency response from the Government that not ...

Morrison needs to show leadership on climate now more than ever

19 December, 2019 - Australia is in the midst of an unprecedented heatwave and bushfire emergency, but the Prime Minister has been missing in action. Scott Morr...

Fossil Fuel Companies Should Pay Pollution Levy: Greens

18 December, 2019 - It’s time that the fossil fuel companies whose products are responsible for the climate crisis start footing some of the bill for cleaning i...

Morrison government missing-in-action while climate emergency plunges profits of Australian farms

18 December, 2019 - Greens Senator Janet Rice has slammed the government’s failure to act as farmers suffer the effects of the climate emergency, following a da...

Blind & vision-impaired Australians celebrate audio description on public broadcasters

17 December, 2019 -   Tuesday 17th December 2019 Our blind and vision-impaired communities are celebrating today, after years of campaigning alongside the Green...

Murray-Darling the real victim of environmental vandalism at Water Ministers meeting

17 December, 2019 - Today’s meeting of the Murray–Darling Basin Ministerial Council has left the River system in crisis, robbed the environment, and has left So...

Newcastle Named Deadliest Track for Greyhounds in New South Wales, Followed by Gosford, Lismore and Nowra

17 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has released figures showing that The Gardens outside Newcastl...

MYEFO: Do nothing government dreaming of ever higher house prices

16 December, 2019 - Greens’ Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, responded today to the release of the Mid-Year Economic Forecast and Outlook (MYE...

MYEFO: more than 90% of budget surplus is due to a structural underspend in the NDIS

16 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Disability Rights & Services spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said the vast majority of the government's reduced bu...

Libs go nuclear at the beck and call of mining lobbyists

13 December, 2019 - The Greens have condemned the Liberals’ plan to introduce nuclear power at the behest of their big corporate mining donors, in the Coalition...