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Greens NSW Senator and Engineer to Visit Menindee and Broken Hill Tomorrow

16 January, 2019 - Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, will visit Broken Hill and Menindee tomorrow (17 January) to meet with locals and see first hand t...

Seismic testing go-ahead bad for SA

15 January, 2019 - Seismic testing is the first step to drilling in the Great Australian Bight and will have devastating outcomes for SA, the Greens say.   “Thi...

Govt under pressure to release secret documents over Menindee Lakes

15 January, 2019 - The Liberal National Government are hiding critical information about draining the Menindee Lakes twice in three years, the Greens say.   “T...

Victorian 2019 Duck Shooting Season Must be Cancelled

15 January, 2019 - The Victorian Greens are urging the Andrews Government to cancel the 2019 duck shooting season after the Game Management Authority acknowledg...

Govt must buy water back for the environment: Greens

14 January, 2019 - The Greens are urging the Liberal National Government to lift the freeze on water buy backs to restore much-needed flows to the Murray Darlin...

Koalas Need Urgent Intervention to Save Remaining Habitat

14 January, 2019 - Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations and their Habitat, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says that the government must prote...

SMART drumline trial on Sydney's Northern Beaches should mean the removal of destructive shark nets

11 January, 2019 - The Greens NSW are calling for the removal of shark nets on Sydney's Northern Beaches following the announcement that a trial of SMART d...

Greens call for emergency water measures in wake of unprecedented fish kill

9 January, 2019 - The Federal Water Minister must force the NSW and QLD Governments to urgently invoke their powers and embargo the cotton industry’s water extr...

Fish, minus environmental water, equals mass death events

8 January, 2019 - More reports of dead native fish floating in their thousands in the Lower Darling sends a dreadful signal on the health of the River.   “This...

Greens Call for Inquiry into Horse Traceability Across Australia

8 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has launched a campaign for an inquiry into a National Horse Traceabili...

Saudi woman trapped in Bangkok must be brought to Australia: Greens

7 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has called on the Liberal Government to issue emergency travel documents to a young Saudi woman t...

Green Issue: Editorial December 2018

6 January, 2019 - By the Green Issue Editors In the months leading to the expected May 2019 federal election, the Editors want each edition of Green Issue to...

Owning a Home

6 January, 2019 - By Jesse Hutchinson, Greens Candidate for Fremantle From as young as I can remember I’ve always been fascinated by houses and more broadly ...

Housing Nothing but our Hopes

6 January, 2019 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor So, what is the ‘Australian dream’? Let’s lay it out. It’s a three-bedroom house on a quarter acre block with a...

Housing First to Tackle Homelessness

6 January, 2019 - By Jaiden Coonan*, Fremantle-Tangney Greens The state government is preparing to release its draft report on its 10 year strategy to end ho...