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Climate Targets Panel blows the whistle on 2050 fraud

15 October, 2021 - The independent Climate Targets Panel, headed by former Liberal Party Leader, John Hewson, has today made it clear that a ‘net zero by 2050’ ...

2030 targets must be law

14 October, 2021 - As the climate corner that Scott Morrison has painted himself into grows smaller, the Greens say any attempt to spin 2030 targets that are ne...

Gambling donations a stain on our democracy, but Liberals, Nationals and Labor happy to keep cashing in

14 October, 2021 - Forensic research by the ABC has shed new light on just how important a ban on political donations from the gambiling industry is. The ABC’s ...

Future Fund investments must be subject to FOI laws

14 October, 2021 - The Federal Government has comprehensively failed to make the case for trying to exempt the Future Fund’s investments from Freedom of Informa...

Taylor's gas and coal expansion exposes 2050 target fraud

13 October, 2021 - Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, in a bid to help the Morrison government secure a net-zero 2050 target with the National Party has promised mo...

Another day, another rort: Greens to push for vote on their National Integrity Commission bill

13 October, 2021 - The Green says revelations that community grants from the Building Better Regions Fund were disproportionately awarded to Coalition seats onc...

Greens move for 2030 coal phase-out

12 October, 2021 - With Energy Security Board chairman Kerry Schott’s predicting that the grid could be without coal-fired power as in the early 2030’s, the Gre...

Greens urge farmers not to let LNP off lightly

11 October, 2021 - The Greens have warned now is a dangerous time to be distracted from the real climate action needed to support farmers and have urged the Nat...

Nationals' quarter trillion climate bomb a dangerous joke

7 October, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Nationals’ proposed $250 billion publicly funded coal and gas bank as robbing public money to chase stranded asset...

Labor's JobKeeper capitulation

7 October, 2021 - Labor’s decision to let big corporations keep JobKeeper profits is a complete capitulation, the Greens say. “We know that $13 billion went to ...

Snowy a better way to build green hydrogen than handouts to billionaires

6 October, 2021 - The Greens say they do not trust the government to deliver green hydrogen instead of toxic methane, and that there are better ways to turn Aus...

Greens’ integrity body scores top marks; PM’s model “weakest in country”

6 October, 2021 - The Greens’ model for a National Integrity Commission, which passed the Senate two years ago, has been given top marks by The Centre for Publi...

Australia cannot abandon refugees in PNG

6 October, 2021 -   The Australian Government cannot just wash its hands of the people it exiled to Papua New Guinea, the Greens say. “Today is a day to rememb...

The Greens support WA Labor’s motion to raise the age

5 October, 2021 - The West Australian Labor party has passed a motion to raise the age of legal responsibility to 14 at their State conference. The Greens spoke...

Environment Minister approves third coal project in a month and more environmental destruction

5 October, 2021 - Greens Environment Spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responded to the announcement the Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has appro...