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Labor caves to big business and embraces trickle-down economics

14 February, 2018 - Greens Treasury spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the Labor Party’s newly announced policy positi...

Don’t buy into the blackmail, protect the river: Greens

13 February, 2018 - The Australian Greens have reaffirmed their commitment to the survival of the Murray Darling Basin, calling on crossbenchers and Labor to ho...

Net neutrality inquiry necessary to ensure Australians have guaranteed access to free and open internet: Greens

13 February, 2018 - Tuesday, 13 February The opposition have back flipped on net neutrality and voted with the government against a motion, moved by the Austral...

10th anniversary of Australia’s Apology to the Stolen Generations, yet deaths in custody continue

13 February, 2018 - 10th anniversary of Australia’s Apology to the Stolen Generations, yet deaths in custody continue In the wake of a second Aboriginal death i...

Labor must halt logging of Strathbogie forest home of Greater Glider, say Greens

13 February, 2018 - The Greens are calling on the Victorian Labor government to step in to halt logging by its commercial logging arm VicForests, which has move...

We still have a long way to go with Closing the Gap, ‘refresh’ must ensure proper consultation: Greens

12 February, 2018 - Closing the Gap progress could only really go up from last year’s annual report, but we still have a really long way to go, Australian Green...

Commonwealth must take more responsibility if we are going to address youth detention

9 February, 2018 - The Commonwealth must take more responsibility for justice issues in Australia if we are going to genuinely fix our youth justice system and ...

Australian Greens condemn alleged ‘victory day’ party that used Nazi flags

9 February, 2018 - The Australian Greens condemn an alleged white supremacist themed Australia Day party in Kalgoorlie WA that purportedly used Nazi flags whils...

Damning report on Close the Gap progress should drive rethink on refresh process: Greens

9 February, 2018 - The ten year review for the Closing the Gap strategy should prompt an urgent reset by the Government, Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewer...

Media Release: Frydenberg proved wrong by world’s first shark population survey and still calls for culls

9 February, 2018 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, says that the Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has been proven wrong ...

Australian Greens welcome ALP & NXT opposition to cashless welfare card expansions

9 February, 2018 - "I welcome the ALP and NXT in opposing the cashless welfare card legislation in the House of Representatives and look forward to the vote bei...

Disappointing that Senate voted down disallowance to stop cashless welfare card trials: Greens

9 February, 2018 - It is disappointing that the Senate has voted down the Greens disallowance motion to immediately stop the cashless welfare card trials in the...

Don’t go to water over threats from greedy upstream states

9 February, 2018 - Australian Greens Murray-Darling Basin spokesperson and Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young is urging her SA colleagues to hold fi...