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Funding new coal power morally criminal use of public money: Bandt

5 July, 2017 - In response to reports today that the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) is a step closer to funding a coal-fired power station, Green...

Dutton's illegal detention of Australians

5 July, 2017 - Peter Dutton must accept responsibility and come clean about his illegal detention of at least two Australian citizens, Greens Immigration spokes...

Australian women need paid domestic violence leave

4 July, 2017 - The safety net for women leaving abuse and violence should include 10 days of paid domestic violence leave say the Australian Greens. “In 2015, a...

Treasurer’s threat to State’s on fracking is an outrage

30 June, 2017 - Treasurer Scott Morrison’s move threatening State and Territories with financial penalties if they ban dangerous fracking is outrageous say the ...

Ladies night at the dogs is offensive and cruel: Greens

30 June, 2017 - The Greens say the Victorian government should stop pumping taxpayer money into the greyhound industry, which kills thousands of dogs each year....

Victorian Greens renew calls for clergy abuse compensation

29 June, 2017 - Victorian Greens children and families spokesperson Nina Springle has urged the Victorian government to fast track a compensation scheme for cle...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...

Labor’s Mark Butler says Adani is a bad idea, why won’t Palaszczuk listen?

22 June, 2017 - Federal Labor support for Adani’s deadly mega-coal mine is crumbling, so why aren’t Bill Shorten and Queensland Labor listening?, say the Austra...

Labor and Liberal vote down Senate motion on Okehampton Bay

22 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Health Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson expresses his disappointment that both Labor and Liberal voted in the Senate t...

Statement on sexual assault

21 June, 2017 - I re-emphasise the Greens Federal Party Room’s great concern about allegations of sexual assault involving a NSW Greens member, which has had fu...

GREENS READY TO BACK GOVERNMENT REINING IN ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

20 June, 2017 - Greens ready to back government reining in electricity networks The Australian Greens have said they are ready to back moves to start reining in...

Labor and the Coalition keep on taxing women for existing

19 June, 2017 - The GST on sanitary products is sexist and opportunistic and it’s shameful that today both Labor and the Coalition refused to abolish it,” says ...

Japan’s moves to resume commercial whaling shows up ‘scientific whaling’ as sham

16 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has lashed out at moves in the Japanese Parliament to help Japan resume comm...

Japan’s moves to resume commercial whaling shows up ‘scientific whaling’ as sham

16 June, 2017 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has lashed out at moves in the Japanese Parliament to help Japan resume comm...

Tudge, Hunt and Sukkar should pay for their own defence

15 June, 2017 - The government ministers at the centre of the contempt of court proceedings should pay for their own legal defence, Greens Justice spokesperson ...