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New Plan to improve regional planning and integration of mental health services

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government and Capital Health Network will today launch the region’s five-year Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan which aims to...

Expanded values test is unnecessary

28 August, 2020 - The Government’s attempts to force citizens through an expanded values test is unnecessary, the Greens say, while welcoming the commitment to ...

Adani bullies community leader as it loses another court case

28 August, 2020 - The Greens condemn Adani’s attempts to silence Galilee Blockade leader, Ben Pennings, by seeking to  bankrupt his family with legal action and...

Construction starts on Australia’s largest community-owned solar farm

28 August, 2020 - Today marks the first day of construction for a new community-owned solar farm in the ACT which will make solar energy more accessible for Can...

The future of higher education hangs in the balance

28 August, 2020 - Universities have been among the hardest hit by the pandemic, and now funding to certain degrees is being slashed. But in contrast to the gove...

What’s the point of art in the Anthropocene?

28 August, 2020 - As we grapple with the worst environmental crisis of our species alongside the worst economic crisis of our lifetime, what even is the point o...

Ten years of making change happen

28 August, 2020 - It’s ten years since Adam Bandt was elected to the House of Representatives and the Greens formed a minority government with Labor. Looking ba...

An ode to rubbish

28 August, 2020 - There’s no question the waste crisis is something we must address from the top-down. But there’s something to be said for viewing rubbish thro...

A farewell to Richard Di Natale

28 August, 2020 - All good things must come to an end, and this week marks the end of one of the best. In this excerpt from his valedictory speech to the Senate...

PM must strip Abbott’s pension if reported foreign ties are true

27 August, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has said Scott Morrison must strip Tony Abbott of his Prime Ministerial pension, if reports are correct that Abbott...

Orwellian Gov bill defines gas as clean energy, war as peace and freedom as slavery

27 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens, Adam Bandt, has today slammed as Orwellian a new Bill from the Morrison government that redefines ‘low emissi...

New environment laws carbon copy of Tony Abbott’s 2014 attack

27 August, 2020 - New environment laws introduced by the Morrison Government today are carbon copy of Tony Abbott’s 2014 attack, the Greens say. Greens Spokespe...

Caroline Le Couteur Valedictory Speech

27 August, 2020 -   Madam Speaker, I would like to start by saying thank you to the thousands of people who have voted for me over the four ACT elec...

Thank you for all your contributions, Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Murrumbidgee

27 August, 2020 - This week, Caroline Le Couteur took her place in the ACT Legislative Assembly for the last time, after a total of eight years representing the...