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Green recovery needed to lock in emissions reductions

31 August, 2020 - Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has said figures showing an 18% drop in emissions as a result of the coronavirus are doomed to b...

ACT Government outlines expanded plan for nation-leading Justice Reinvestment efforts

31 August, 2020 - The ACT Government has today released its latest ‘Reducing Recidivism 2020-2023’ Plan, that will accelerate the ACT’s nation-leading Justice R...

Nuclear Issues and Greens

31 August, 2020 - The issue of nuclear disarmament drew together various environmentalist groups in the 1980s, resulting in formation of The Greens (WA); and th...

Stop digging it up

31 August, 2020 - The global nuclear trade begins in Australia with uranium mining By Kerrie-Ann (K-A) Garlick, CCWA’s Nuclear Free Community Campaigner ...

Banning the Bomb

31 August, 2020 - The nuclear weapon ban treaty nears entry-into-force By Gem Romuld, Australian Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ...

Born with the Bomb

31 August, 2020 - Born just before nuclear weapons, haunted by them through life, but dream to see them dismantled in my lifetime By Chris Johansen, Green I...

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...