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Less talk, more action on equal pay

29 August, 2022 - On Equal Pay Day the Greens have called on the new government to redress 9 years of inaction on gender equality, and act immediately to close ...

Do Blak Lives Matter to Shaquille O'Neal?

29 August, 2022 - PointsBet Australian brand ambassador Shaquille O'Neal has met with Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and Prime Minister Anthon...

Greens to move for energy transition authority in Parliament

29 August, 2022 - The Greens Industry, Transition and Regional Development spokesperson and Gladstone local, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, will give notice of a B...

Grants open to support veterans and their families

29 August, 2022 - The ACT Government has today opened the Veterans Grants Program to support veterans and their families better connect with their communities a...

Greens raise concerns about ACT Policing’s use of spit hoods

29 August, 2022 - The ACT Greens have expressed their concern about the use of spit hoods by ACT Policing, after it was revealed in Estimates today that a teena...

ACT Greens challenge $41m of public money given to horseracing industry

29 August, 2022 - Today in Estimates, Jo Clay MLA asked how it is in the public interest to provide $41 million of taxpayer funds to the horseracing industry. ...

Greens call on Plibersek to act on global leadership in oceans protection promise

28 August, 2022 - The Greens have called on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to take a leading role in convening an emergency meeting with UN member states ...

Jordon Steele-John’s August update

28 August, 2022 - A missed opportunity for leadership in the disability space, pondering the climate bill and the nuclear threat, welcoming new Greens MPs and a...

Climate Refugees and Australia

28 August, 2022 - Officially, climate refugees don’t exist, but they will be rapidly multiplying in the years to come By Chris Johansen, Green Issue Co-edito...

A PHONE CALL MAKES A BIG CHANGE

28 August, 2022 - How a chance encounter with two detainees, Koffi and Lucky, led to a family taking up their case and then a continuing friendship that has enr...

Green Issue Editorial August 2022

28 August, 2022 - By The Green Issue Editors August Green Issue focusses on Australia’s contorted relationship with refugees. Coalition and Labor governments...

The right kind of outlaw

28 August, 2022 - The absolutely shameful treatment of Iranian refugee Ned Kelly, a victim of Australia’s seemingly bipartisan punitive refugee policy By Sen...

Words from Behind the Wire

28 August, 2022 - Writing as a path toward hope while teaching asylum seeker children on Christmas Island  By Reneé Pettitt-Schipp, Writer and Teacher ...

Music Talks

28 August, 2022 - Although the recent election provides a glimmer of hope for asylum seekers, we must continue pressuring the government to end the punitive app...

Denigration & Dehumanization – The Australian Way

28 August, 2022 - Australia has a long history of dehumanizing and denigrating non-white people, most recently asylum seekers arriving by boat. Media stereotypi...