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As Pacific Leaders declare climate emergency, Australia must stop new coal & gas

12 July, 2022 - Australia must walk the talk on climate commitments in the Pacific this week by stopping new coal and gas projects, the Greens have warned, afte...

New coal and gas projects will be the real test for Labor in the Pacific

11 July, 2022 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has called on the government to promise Pacific Leaders that Australia will stop opening coal and gas projects, ahead o...

Environment Minister must rule out new coal projects

11 July, 2022 - The Federal Environment Minister must rule out approving the 27 new coal projects set to come across her desk according to analysis by the Sunri...

WA Government has a duty of care to protect children: Greens

6 July, 2022 - The appalling state of WA’s prisons should be fully investigated, following news overnight that children as young as 14 will be transferred from ...

Greens call on government to back Vanuatu’s climate change initiative

4 July, 2022 - Deputy Greens Leader and International Aid & Global Justice spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has today written to Prime Minister Anthony Alban...

Sexual harassment against women in the FIFO mining industry must end now

23 June, 2022 - The Greens today today vowed to push the mining sector to undertake systemic reform to prevent violence against women on mining sites, as a land...

Scarborough court bid highlights need for climate trigger

22 June, 2022 - The Federal Court bid by the Australian Conservation Foundation to stop Woodside Energy’s Scarborough gas project until its impact on the Great ...

Windfall tax on gas profiteering as easy as PRRT

22 June, 2022 - The Greens Leader Adam Bandt says a windfall tax on gas corporations profiteering from the current crisis could be imposed simply by closing loo...

Uni wage theft investigation a welcome sign

22 June, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the Fair Work Ombudsman’s priority investigation ...

Free Julian Assange

18 June, 2022 - Statement from Australian Greens Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Senator Jordon Steele-John.  “Following The UK...

Australian Greens announce portfolios for 47th Parliament

17 June, 2022 - The Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has announced the party’s updated portfolio allocation for the upcoming 47th Parliament, ahead o...

Labor signs Reef’s death warrant as National Cabinet ducks energy privatisation

17 June, 2022 - After the first National Cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today, Greens Leader Adam Bandt said National Cabinet failed to a...

Whish-Wilson gains highest Greens Senate result across Australia

16 June, 2022 - Today it is finally official: lutruwita/Tasmania’s federal election preferences have been formally distributed and Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wi...

Universal preschool must be national and free

16 June, 2022 - Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that NSW and Victoria’s announcement of universal pre...

Cash for coal clunkers will only prolong energy problems

8 June, 2022 - The Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the ‘coalkeeper’ subsidy to ageing coal power plants will slow the overdue modernisation of the Australian en...