News

NT Middle Arm 'Pollution Factory' would wreck Darwin Harbour, fuel climate change, risk Future Made in Australia

22 August, 2024 - On the eve of the NT election, the proposed ‘Middle Arm’ gas and petrochemical hub for Darwin Harbour has been strongly criticised by a Senate...

2024 Heritage Grant recipients announced

21 August, 2024 - Thirteen community projects will receive a share of $206,500 through the ACT Heritage Grants program that aims to celebrate and conserve the A...

Completion of Australia’s first publicly-run residential eating disorder centre

21 August, 2024 - The ACT Government has completed the new Eating Disorders Residential Treatment Centre in Coombs, which will provide specialist care in a bran...

Shooting of horses in Kosciuszko legal: Supreme Court

21 August, 2024 - The Supreme court has dismissed an attempt to halt aerial shooting of feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park and ordered that the Snowy ...

GREENS CLIMATE LEADERSHIP TAKES CANBERRA FURTHER, FASTER

21 August, 2024 - While federal Labor continues approving more coal and gas, the Greens are providing real climate leadership, making a campaign promise to step...

Parliamentary enforcement body will help Set the Standard

21 August, 2024 - The Greens welcome the belated introduction today of legislation to establish an Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission was introduced...

Inquest finds death of First Nations man ‘preventable’ as Doctor is referred for investigation

20 August, 2024 - The findings from the Inquiry into the death of First Nations man Ricky “Dougie” Hampson Junior were released this week. Hampson died in 2021 ...

Two years of CanTEST drug checking service

20 August, 2024 - The CanTEST Health and Drug Checking Service, which provides chemical analysis of drugs and pills, has now been running for two years in the A...

Harmful products spread with full knowledge of former Liberal Government

20 August, 2024 - Former Cabinet Minister Matt Kean knew that contaminated recycled waste products were being distributed across the environment and communities...

Environment laws 'too weak' as climate court case dropped

19 August, 2024 - The announcement today that the Australian Conservation Foundation will drop its legal action against Woodside’s mammoth gas project at S...

Labor and the Liberals cut deal for rushed, deeply flawed legislation

19 August, 2024 - The Australian Greens have said Labor and the Liberals have teamed up to ram through rushed CFMEU legislation in an unprecedented attack on th...

Court rules that restorative justice demands community participation in Forestry crimes

19 August, 2024 - The Bellingen Environment Centre (BEC) will be allowed to give advice to the Land and Environment Court of NSW during the sentence hearing of ...

50 days of free labour, a bad deal for women

19 August, 2024 - On Equal Pay Day this year, women will have worked an extra 50 days, on average, to earn the same as men.  The current national gender...

ACT GREENS WILL DOUBLE ARTS FUNDING

17 August, 2024 - Today the ACT Greens have announced their plan to support Canberra’s vibrant arts scene to thrive, not dive, in the midst of this cost-of-livi...

Tackling youth homelessness with a new youth foyer based in Woden

16 August, 2024 - Today the ACT Government has announced funding for a new youth foyer based at the CIT Woden campus which will support young people to finish t...