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UK/Australia trade negotiations should face public scrutiny

5 September, 2016 - The Australian Greens have called on the Turnbull government to end the secrecy around trade negotiations and ensure that any potential deal...

Address-in-Reply – Nick McKim

2 September, 2016 - Senator McKIM Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border prot...

Media Release: Wilson’s Evacuation Shows Offshore Detention Untenable

2 September, 2016 - Wilson Security’s decision to withdraw from Australian offshore detention centres shows that the Government’s mandatory detention regime is ...

Motion - Mining and Adani

2 September, 2016 - Senator WATERS I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 19 standing in my name for today, relating to the Adani coalmine....

Greens push to cut $2+ ATM fees now excessive credit card surcharges dead

2 September, 2016 - Following the death of excessive credit card surcharges from today onwards, Greens MP Adam Bandt today said the Greens will push to cut exce...

Speech in Reply on Immigration and Section 18C

1 September, 2016 - Before I concluded my previous contribution on this, I was speaking about the fact that the government's so-called border protection regime ...

Senate tells Turnbull to rule out public funding for Adani

1 September, 2016 -   The Australian Senate today supported a Greens motion calling on the government to rule out any public funding for the Adani coal mine or ...

Government stopgaps on banking don't replace need for Royal Commission

31 August, 2016 - Greens Treasury and Consumer Affairs spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, provides the following comments on the Government’s latest effo...

Media Release: Labor and Liberals vote down immigration detention Royal Commission

31 August, 2016 - Labor and the Coalition have voted together to reject a Royal Commission into Australia's detention centres including Manus Island and Nauru. ...

High Court delivers government body blow with oil & gas project decision

31 August, 2016 - Greens Employment & Industrial Relations spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today welcomed the High Court’s decision to rule against the government’s ...

Record whale numbers show why we must ‘Fight for the Bight’

31 August, 2016 - Astounding results from a Curtin University study, showing 172 southern right whales using the Great Australian Bight calving sanctuary in jus...

Government stacked climate authority calls for coal phase out but fails to set out post-Paris pathway

31 August, 2016 - Greens climate and energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt, said the government must listen to its own Climate Change Authority’s call to phase out co...

Greens congratulate Victoria and push for a national fracking ban

30 August, 2016 - With the ban on fracking announced in Victoria, the Australian Greens will move for a nation-wide ban on fracking to protect farmland and wate...

Sea Shepherd left doing Australian government’s work on whaling

30 August, 2016 - Sea Shepherd are launching their latest anti-whaling campaign, Operation Nemesis, in Perth today. Senator Whish-Wilson said, “I wish the Sea S...

Greens lead charge for ‘free’ trade scrutiny with Senate inquiry

30 August, 2016 - South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has said that she will focus on reigning in and scrutinising so called 'free' trade deals, ...