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Greens response to announcement of review of management of Murray-Darling Basin

3 December, 2019 - Greens Senator for South Australia and Spokesperson for Water and the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young responded to Minister Littleprou...

Greens back call for PM to drop plans to outlaw environmental and consumer boycotts

3 December, 2019 - The Greens have backed the call by civil society organisations today for the Morrison Government to drop their plans to outlaw environmental ...

Foreign Aid Cuts to South Asia, Pakistan, a Backwards Step

3 December, 2019 - Australian Greens International Aid and Development spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to revelations that the Morrison gove...

Corporate greed real enemy of Murray-Darling

3 December, 2019 - The Morrison Government is making things up as they go along, while the Murray-Darling is in deeper and deeper crisis and communities and the...

Labor and Coalition Betray Central Coast and Newcastle on Gas Plan Vote

3 December, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has said Labor and the Coalition have betrayed the Central Coast and Newcastle Communit...

Great Barrier Reef plan isn't enough, despite Government spin: Greens

2 December, 2019 - Australian Governments must do more to keep UNESCO from declaring the Great Barrier Reef ‘in danger’ including bold action on climate change ...

Religious Discrimination Bill

2 December, 2019 - The Greens urge the Government to use the parliamentary break to amend the serious problems in the proposed religious discrimination laws. "T...

Canberrans urged to keep themselves, and the environment, safe this Christmas

2 December, 2019 - Minister for Climate Change, Sustainability and Consumer Affairs Shane Rattenbury has reminded Canberrans to stay safe and reduce their envir...

Karoon Gas pulls out of Great Australian Bight

30 November, 2019 - Greens Senator for South Australia and Spokesperson for the Environment Sarah Hanson-Young has welcomed the news Karoon Gas is relinquishing...

Logging while NSW burns

29 November, 2019 - Images have emerged which show continued logging operations in NSW native forests by Forestry Corporation contractors despite the widespread...

Release of Victorian transport plan blocked by Labor and minor parties

29 November, 2019 - Victorians will continue to be kept in the dark about the Victorian Government’s transport planning after a Greens amendment was bizarrely d...

Greens secure better housing deal for vulnerable South Australians

28 November, 2019 - After intensive consultation with numerous stakeholders, the Greens have supported the passage of the Government’s Land Tax Amendment Bill t...

Victorians with mental illness deserve the security of a home

28 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed the interim report released by the Royal Commission into Mental Health today, but are disappointed that i...

Speech - Daily acknowledgment in Ngunnawal language

28 November, 2019 - Madam Speaker it is with great pleasure that I rise today to speak to this item of Assembly business. Firstly, I’d like to acknowledge th...

History in the making as Ngunnawal language motion advances reconciliation

28 November, 2019 - The ACT Greens will today table a motion to advance reconciliation in the ACT that will see Canberra’s local Indigenous Ngunnawal language f...