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Labor’s environment plan missing key parts

1 November, 2018 - Members of the Labor Party agitating for improving their stance on the environment must fight for investment, and change on the party’s stanc...

Kids need to be brought off Nauru now

1 November, 2018 - Reports that the Australian Government plans to bring the children it is detaining on Nauru to Australia by Christmas removes any excuse to k...

Adani produces more spin than coal

1 November, 2018 - In an effort to drum up investment in its ailing Carmichael mine, Adani has again announced the project is about to get off the ground adding...

Greens slam Liberals for continuous attacks on research and academic freedom

31 October, 2018 - Greens slam Liberals for continuous attacks on research and academic freedom Greens science and research spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today sla...

No more chances on Live Export: Moss Review shows it is time for a ban.

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has reiterated her call for a ban on live exports, following the relea...

While the extinction crisis deepens our Environment Minister is in hiding

31 October, 2018 - Australia’s Environment Minister has let the public down yet again with her silence on the WWF’s damning report into human-driven mass extinc...

Australian Greens Education Spokesperson to speak at anti-Ramsay Centre rally at Sydney University today

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, will today speak at 'Stop the Ramsay Centre! Protest at the USYD Senate' an...

Being fired or expelled for being LGBT+ is discrimination, not religious freedom: Greens

31 October, 2018 - The joint letter from Sydney Anglican school principals shows they want to continue to be able to discriminate against LGBT+ people just beca...

Research 'National Interest' Test a Smokescreen for Political Interference

31 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has rebuked Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan's proposed national intere...

Scathing Royal Commission evidence puts MDBA on notice

30 October, 2018 - The final submission to the Murray Darling Basin Royal Commission will send shockwaves throughout Basin communities and should be seen as a w...

Greens back union & ACF call for independent authority to manage transition away from coal

30 October, 2018 - Greens back union & ACF call for independent authority to manage transition away from coal Greens Co-Deputy Leader and climate change and ene...

It's time to move from bank-bashing rhetoric to bank-changing policies

29 October, 2018 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments alongside the release of the Greens submission in r...

Education Minister Interference in Research Grants "An outrageous overreach"

26 October, 2018 - Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has called news that the former Education Minister, Senator Simon Birmingha...