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Use the 'special relationship' to stop Assange extradition: Di Natale

12 April, 2019 -  Australian Greens Leader and Foreign Affairs spokesperson Dr Richard Di Natale has called upon the Australian Government to swiftly intervene ...

Waters and Bandt announce plan to create clean energy jobs for Qld

12 April, 2019 - 47,570 full-time jobs a year would be created in Queensland under the Greens plan to rapidly transform Australia’s energy system to renewables ...

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...

Australian Greens ready for the climate change election

11 April, 2019 - Australian Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale has welcomed the official start of the election campaign, declaring that the party has never...

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 ...

ABC will continue to lose out under Liberals

3 April, 2019 - Scott Morrison’s pre-election budget has confirmed cuts to the ABC will continue under the Liberals, the Greens say.   “This is a government tha...