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Government still not getting vaccines rollout right

1 July, 2021 - The Greens say the Government need to address continuing uncertainty over the vaccine roll out. There are supply, delivery and hesitancy issues p...

Funding to help community clubs shift to safe, sustainable revenue sources

1 July, 2021 - Applications for grants of up to $250,000 have opened today to help Canberra’s club industry shift their reliance on gambling-based revenue to mo...

Recycling industry ignored in lead-up to waste export ban

30 June, 2021 - The Government’s failure to mandate Australia’s recycling targets is to blame for any recyclable items sent to landfill because of tomorrow’s in...

Greens call for urgent update of Australia’s ventilation standards for hotel quarantine 

30 June, 2021 - In light of the highly transmissible Delta strain now in the community, the Greens say it's a shocking failure of leadership of the Morrison Gov...

LIBERALS MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MISMANAGEMENT OF NDIS

30 June, 2021 - Wednesday 30 June, 2021 Australian Greens Disability spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said projections in the 2021 Intergenerational Repo...

Statement on behalf of the Australian Greens Victoria, 30 June 2021

30 June, 2021 - Statement on behalf of the Australian Greens Victoria 30 June 2021 On April 11, Councillor Anab Mohamud was violently assaulted in South Yar...

Redevelopment of Waterloo will be a sell off of public land for private profit

30 June, 2021 - The NSW Planning Minister’s intervention in the plans to redevelop the first section of the Waterloo public housing estate at South Waterloo, ma...

Brad Pettitt’s June Update

29 June, 2021 - My first weeks in Parliament: Putting Climate on the Agenda, WA’s growing housing crisis, McGowan Government’s woeful approval of Scarborough ga...

Thought for Food

29 June, 2021 - Review of a book on the evolution of agriculture and food systems, the problems thus created, and how to overcome them By Chris Johansen, GI...

Is Green Growth Possible?

29 June, 2021 - Green technologies alone won’t solve our climate and extinction crises unless we also address the growth imperative By Rob Delves, GI Co-edit...

Sheila Suttner ‒ activist, comrade, friend

29 June, 2021 - Celebrating a life of struggle and solidarity (1923 – 2020) By Juanita Doorey, GWA member and member of former WA CARE, with thanks to Peter...

Greens Values are Global Values

29 June, 2021 - Global Greens ‒ Green activism at home and abroad By Vivienne Glance It’s been great to see former senator, Scott Ludlam, speaking about h...

Australia must impose sanctions against Myanmar

25 June, 2021 - In Myanmar, freedom, democracy and human rights are under extreme threat by the new military state – and yet the Australian Government refuses t...

What is happening in Myanmar?

25 June, 2021 - Conflict, a coup, military rule – what’s really going on in Myanmar? Former Myanmar-based reporter and editor and one-time Greens candidate Alec...

Australia’s lost in the climate wilderness

25 June, 2021 - Nothing is safe from A government working as one with coal and gas corporations. In a speech delivered to Parliament this month, Adam Bandt expl...