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Environment Minister signs death warrant for Port Stephens koalas

27 October, 2020 - The Environment Minister Sussan Ley has signed a death warrant for koalas by approving the extension of the Brandy Hill quarry near Port Step...

Statement On Kashmir

27 October, 2020 - The Australian Greens stand with the Kashmiri community on 27 October as they commemorate Black Day. Kashmir is a disputed territory and it i...

Greens to introduce new bill that would set public housing targets in Victoria

27 October, 2020 - The state government would have public housing targets legislated under a new bill set to be first-read by the Victorian Greens in parliament...

Australia must sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

26 October, 2020 - Australia must urgently sign and ratify the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons now that it has become international ...

Australia Post investigation should review enormous executive salaries and bonuses

26 October, 2020 - Greens Spokesperson for Communications Senator Sarah Hanson Young responded to the Morrison Government’s terms of reference for an investigat...

Privatisation not the solution to Auspost debacle

26 October, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, says the Australia Post debacle is symptomatic of corporatisation, a problem that would only be made worse by full...

Morrison's sham Carbon Credits a pro-fossil fuel perversion of the Carbon Price

26 October, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt has slammed reports of the Morrison Government offering a carbon credit scheme to Santos, saying it represented a pe...

Cap AusPost executive salaries

23 October, 2020 - Greens Senator, Sarah Hanson-Young says Australia Post has become quasi-public, quasi private and this is clashing with the community’s expec...

A green wave of hope

23 October, 2020 - It’s been the toughest year in memory for so many of us. But what we’re seeing now is a green wave across the country – and for the first tim...

There’s no time left not to do everything

23 October, 2020 - Continuing a supplicant politics, where we beg or demand of governments that they act, is both destined to fail and underplaying our hand. So...

A budget for some of us

23 October, 2020 - This year we’ve faced a global pandemic and an economic crisis – not to mention the spiralling climate emergency and the many pre-existing fa...

Empowering Greens around the world

23 October, 2020 - This year, the Asia Pacific Greens have developed 20 policy frameworks to help empower their new and emerging member parties. The frameworks ...

How will eligible Australians vote in the US election?

23 October, 2020 - On November 3, the US will go to the polls to decide whether Donald Trump is returned for a second term or if Joe Biden takes his place. Five...

Govt’s Arts and Entertainment Rescue Package Unspent

21 October, 2020 - Not a single dollar of the $250m arts and entertainment package the PM announced with Guy Sebastian four months ago has been spent, the Depar...

Mates investigating mates shows ICAC needed

21 October, 2020 - Revelations that the Finance Department inquiry into Assistant Minister Michael Sukkar was outsourced to the law firm he used to work for is ...