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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...

Greens Welcome Horse Traceability Scheme Report

27 November, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed the Senate Inquiry report calling on the Federal Governm...

Market-led proposals for transport infrastructure should be scrapped

27 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to scrap market led proposals for transport infrastructure and instead focus on developin...

Victoria's waste management system needs a complete overhaul

27 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have echoed the state waste inquiry report’s calls for broad scale reform of Victoria’s waste management system but say...

Defence of Taylor shows integrity has been thrown overboard: Greens

26 November, 2019 - The Australian Greens have responded to Scott Morrison’s appalling decision to allow Minister Angus Taylor to continue serving in his role w...

Alan Jones to stay on Canberra’s public buses

26 November, 2019 - The Greens think Alan Jones’ sexist, misogynistic views are appalling and harmful. The ACT Greens were proud to support a recent communi...

Government refuses to take down Alan Jones from back of Canberra buses

26 November, 2019 - The ACT Greens have today expressed disappointment that the ACT Government will maintain Alan Jones advertising on Transport Canberra buses ...

Victorian Greens call for Royal Commission into planning system

26 November, 2019 - Today the Victorian Greens will introduce a motion calling on the Government to establish a Royal Commission into the state’s planning syste...

Separate bin could save over 100,000 tonnes of glass waste from landfill each year

26 November, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have called on the Government to introduce separate glass bins in a bid to save the 107,500 tonnes of glass being sent ...