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Woodside needs to clean up after itself

19 January, 2023 - An oil tower containing toxic chemicals once used by Woodside to produce oil near the Ningaloo Reef ceased operations and should have be...

Greens Slam Potential Deal on Financial Accountability Regime

19 January, 2023 - The Greens have criticised the possibility of a deal between Labor and Liberal to pass the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) without fine...

Greens call for acceleration of gas code of conduct

19 January, 2023 - The Greens have called for the rapid introduction of an interim Mandatory Code of Conduct with teeth for gas companies, to lay bare the excus...

Funding fix needed to sustain national cultural institutions

18 January, 2023 - The Greens are calling for a long-term funding fix to sustain cultural institutions as part of the Albanese Government’s National Cultural Po...

Political sponsorship of Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi

17 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator for South Australia Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is acting as a political sponsor for Iranian actress, Katayoun Riahi...

Mental health support could curb police attrition rate

16 January, 2023 - A record number of WA police left the force, and retired, last year according to a dossier compiled by the WA Police Union. The Union clai...

Minister Ignores Reality of Intermediate Nuclear Waste

16 January, 2023 - Last week on Thursday, Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King visited the Kimba community to discuss her plan - mirroring the LNP's previo...

Senator Sponsors Two Iranians On Death Row

13 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Barbara Pocock has announced her sponsorship of two Iranian prisoners recently sentenced to death after they partic...

Santos’ sponsorship of Tour Down Under is unwelcome

13 January, 2023 - One of South Australia’s biggest tourism and sporting events, the Tour Down Under, begins today. Santos, a major fossil fuel company and c...

The Kimberley needs all funding supports to build back stronger

11 January, 2023 - This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese toured the flood ravaged Kimberley region with the Minister for Emergency Management, Senator Murr...

Greens candidate for Heathcote: ‘We need urgent action now on our climate crisis’

11 January, 2023 - Launching his campaign for the 2023 NSW election, Greens Candidate for Heathcote Cooper Riach, has called for urgent action on climate change...

Safeguard rules released today must go further to curb coal and gas: Greens

10 January, 2023 - The draft Safeguard Mechanism rules released by the Federal Labor government today don’t go far enough and risk continuing to be captured by ...

Australian Greens call on Government to do more to put an end to Iran’s executions of protestors

10 January, 2023 - Australian Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John has today written to the Iranian Ambassador stating his political sponsorship of Majid Kazemi fo...

Australian weapons fuelling wars amid secretive defence export deals

6 January, 2023 - Fresh evidence exposed through Senate Estimates by Greens Senator David Shoebridge has found Australia's defence exports being funneled to reg...

First Nations deaths taking toll on community

29 December, 2022 - A First Nations man collapsed and died at Greenough Regional Prison on Tuesday afternoon, the second death of an Aboriginal person in custod...