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Tomago and world call time on coal as Morrison keeps selling it to China

11 August, 2021 - Australia’s biggest electricity consumer, stationed right next to a major coal field, is getting out of coal. The announcement comes as nation...

No whale should suffer for false sense of security

11 August, 2021 - Another whale is separated from its pod and suffering after being entangled in a deadly shark net which it was forced to drag for kilometres b...

Greens announce move to legislate Live Performance Federal Insurance Guarantee

11 August, 2021 - The Greens will move in the Senate for the Morrison Government to establish a Federal Insurance Guarantee for the live performance and events ...

Criminalising Victorians unable to pay COVID fines risks state's public health response

11 August, 2021 - The Victorian Greens have said the Victorian Government is risking our state’s public health response by criminalising disadvantaged groups wh...

Government ordered to produce documents relating to dodgy fracking grant

10 August, 2021 - The government must release documents relating to the awarding of a $21 million grant to Liberal Party-aligned fracking company Empire Energy,...

Early educators report shows a sector in crisis

10 August, 2021 - Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the release today of the Big Steps/United Workers Union report Ex...

Government must waive JobKeeper/JobSeeker debts

10 August, 2021 - The Greens say it is unconscionable for the Government to be chasing income support recipients for JobKeeper debts when billionaires collected...

Waterways Statement. Ft: Shane Rattenbury

10 August, 2021 - This is a statement I made to the Legislative Assembly last week on the important work we are doing as part of the ACT Healthy Waterways progr...

IPCC Report shows there is no room for fossil fuels

10 August, 2021 - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 6th Assessment Report, released last night, must be a powerful wake-up call to the old pa...

Morrison 2030 climate targets a death sentence

9 August, 2021 - The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report makes it clear the government’s current 2030 climate targets amount to a death sent...

Greens slam Government’s feeble response to devastating 1.5 degrees report

6 August, 2021 - The Greens have slammed the Government’s response to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Report, which reveals temperatur...

Greens call on National Cabinet to include kids and teenagers in vaccination targets

6 August, 2021 - The Greens have called on National Cabinet, who have so far agreed in principle to the Prime Minister’s latest vaccination plan, to demand it i...

Proposed reforms to create fairer, safer rental system in Canberra

6 August, 2021 - Canberrans are encouraged to have their say regarding rental reforms in the ACT with a discussion paper on residential tenancy reforms released...

Committee agrees: Roadside corflutes should be banned, donations capped

5 August, 2021 - After years of campaigning, the ACT Greens have welcomed today’s recommendations from the Inquiry into 2020 ACT Election and the Electoral Act,...

Greens move for independent inquiry into Christian Porter

4 August, 2021 - The Greens today will move for an independent inquiry into Christian Porter’s fitness to be a Minister after the PM this week promoted the form...