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Forests and climate change

21 February, 2020 - Forests play a key role in determining climate, locally and globally – and their importance is even more critical now as global temperatures...

A storied life

21 February, 2020 - In life, journalist Neroli Colvin was passionate about the environment and social justice. But it was her decision to leave a bequest to the...

Jobs figures show need for Green New Deal

20 February, 2020 - Greens Leader Adam Bandt said today’s jobs figures reveal a jobs crisis in Australia, especially amongst young people, and underscore the ne...

Royal Commission a Climate Whitewash

20 February, 2020 - Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has responded to the Prime Minister’s bushfire Royal commission announcement. “This Royal Commission looks like a...

Labor’s 2050 target blows 2 degrees and gives up on Paris Agreement: Bandt

20 February, 2020 - Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt has slammed Anthony Albanese’s move to adopt a net zero by 2050 pollution target, saying it will blow th...

Government risks Reef 'in danger listing with new coral bleaching

20 February, 2020 - Coral bleaching in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef shows the Federal and Qld Governments are failing to deal with the impact of clim...

Women killed by violence needs accurate reporting and national toll

20 February, 2020 - The Greens are calling for an urgent crisis response to the number of women killed by violence and greater accuracy in media reporting follo...

ACT Greens act to protect ACT endangered woodlands from development

20 February, 2020 - The Greens are committed to protect our environment & everything that depends on it. The ACT Greens are pleased to pass a resolution ...

ACT Greens act to protect ACT endangered woodlands from development

20 February, 2020 - The ACT Greens are pleased to pass a resolution in the Assembly today that will improve protections for Canberra’s endangered woodlands and ...

ACT Greens seek protection for threatened ACT woodlands

20 February, 2020 - The ACT Greens will today call on the Assembly to help improve the protection of Canberra's threatened ecological communities by incorporati...

Greens to introduce Media Freedom Act

19 February, 2020 - A Media Freedom Act to protect the public’s right to know and whistleblowers who speak truth to power, will be introduced into the Senate, G...

Adani toast as India reportedly pledges to stop coal imports: Greens

19 February, 2020 - The Australian Greens have responded to reports that India will stop importing thermal coal within 4 years, saying that it is the death knel...

Stop the US extradition of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange

19 February, 2020 - This meeting of the Northern Territory Greens held on Sunday, 19th January 2020 condemns the continuing persecution of Wikileaks’ publisher ...

ACT Greens urge other parties to back ‘fair fines’ to help prevent social disadvantage in Canberra

19 February, 2020 - The ACT Greens have urged the other parties to support new laws for ‘fairer fines’ in the ACT to help address social disadvantage in the ACT...

Bandt: We need a Royal Commission into wage theft

18 February, 2020 - The Greens are calling for a Royal Commission to fully investigate the extent of wage theft and below-award payment in Australia following r...