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The Greens (WA) are ready to roll out on climate change election

11 April, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia Jordon Steele-John has welcomed the official start of the election campaign, declaring the Gree...

Government’s own report shows environment must be prioritised over greedy irrigators

10 April, 2019 - The fish kill report underlines that the environment must be put first and we need a royal commission to fix the management of the Murray Darli...

NAIF a slush fund for LNP pet projects like Adani

10 April, 2019 - The ANAO report released today has confirmed the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility is a politically motivated waste of taxpayers money...

Labor must join Greens and oppose Adani or we’ll all pay the Price

9 April, 2019 -   The Environment Minister has bowed to blackmail from within her own party and ignored scientific and community concerns about water, to tick o...

Australian Greens criticise Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to annex West Bank settlements  

8 April, 2019 - The Australian Greens are extremely concerned at comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend that, if re-elected...

Solar thermal plant should be publicly-owned: Greens

5 April, 2019 - State and Federal Governments must intervene to save Australia’s first baseload solar thermal power plant, following the collapse of Solar Reser...

Greens urge Federal Government to stay out of Great Barrier Reef shark control

5 April, 2019 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has urged the Federal Government not to intervene in Queensland’s Shark Control ...

Joint committee of animal extinction inquiry recommends new environment laws and a new EPA

4 April, 2019 - The interim report from the Senate inquiry into Australia’s animal extinction crisis recommends new environment laws to limit the drivers of ext...

Greens urge Foreign Minister to act on Brunei’s new laws targeting LGBTQ+ people

4 April, 2019 - The Australian Greens have written to the Foreign Minister Marise Payne to express deep concern over Brunei’s new laws that punish homosexual se...

Greens slam WA Labor government’s extension to destructive native forest logging agreements

4 April, 2019 - With the stroke of a pen rolling over last century’s destructive logging laws, WA Labor has signed the death warrant on threatened animals like ...

Christmas Island reopening a cynical waste

3 April, 2019 - The Liberals spending $185m to reopen and then close Christmas Island is rank cynicism and deeply wasteful, Greens Immigration spokesperson Nick...

Greens Give Morrison Budget an 'F' on School Funding

3 April, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has given the Federal Budget an F on school funding and has...

$400k in Budget for national EV strategy a joke, say Greens

3 April, 2019 - The Morrison government’s $400,000 allocation for a national electric vehicle strategy in the Budget is an absolute joke, especially when they h...

Budget infrastructure spending shows a complete lack of vision and porkbarrelling, say Greens

3 April, 2019 -  The Morrison’s government’s infrastructure spending demonstrates a complete lack of vision and pre-election porkbarrelling to save the skin of ...