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Government delaying electric vehicle strategy to 2020 keeps Australia in the slow lane, say Greens

27 March, 2019 - The Morrison government delaying the electric vehicles strategy to mid-2020 leaves Australia stalled on the sidelines of the electric vehicle r...

After One Nation Gun Revelations, Scott Morrison must commit to putting them last

26 March, 2019 - Australian Greens Gun Control Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has commented on reports that Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party has been me...

A shortlist with coal is a shortcut to climate change

26 March, 2019 - A shortlist with coal is a shortcut to climate change Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today reacted to the Coalitio...

Greens media reform package puts public interest journalism front and centre

26 March, 2019 - The Australian Greens media reform package turns the blow torch on the big corporate media giants and places quality, public interest journalis...

Greens to push Labor in Senate for higher minimum wage: Bandt.

26 March, 2019 - Greens to push Labor in Senate for higher minimum wage: Bandt. Greens Co-Deputy Leader and industrial relations spokesperson, Adam Bandt MP, to...

Back off Barnaby

26 March, 2019 - Barnaby Joyce should be blaming his party’s consistent backing of corporate cotton for his electoral woes, not water flowing into South Austral...

Defence projects of concern management creates its own concern

26 March, 2019 - Greens Defence spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, commented on the release of the Auditor-General’s report into Defence’s Management of ...

Consequences for cotton farmer who ripped off the river

22 March, 2019 - The Australian Greens are renewing calls for a federal Royal Commission into the Murray Darling Basin following the conviction of a NSW cotton ...

Greens announce plan for federal fracking ban

22 March, 2019 - The Greens will move to protect Australia’s precious groundwater by extending the ‘water trigger’ to all types of unconventional gas mining as ...

Greens Senator Receives 1.3 million Change.org petition Against Senator Fraser Anning

21 March, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Australia's first Muslim woman Senator, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has received more than 1.3 million signatures ...

Greens Environment Commission would fund and track threatened species recovery

21 March, 2019 - Reports that the Federal Government has not kept track of threatened species recovery shows the need for the Greens’ proposal to strengthen env...

Greens announce energy savings plan for small businesses

20 March, 2019 - Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today launched the Greens’ six point plan to help small businesses reduce power bil...

Greens launch plan to tackle racism

20 March, 2019 - The Australian Greens have today released a plan to tackle racism and far right extremism in Australia. “Tomorrow is Harmony Day, a day dedicat...