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Greens will fight Leigh Creek UCG project

4 September, 2018 - Leigh Creek is facing an environmental and public health disaster following an irresponsible State Liberal Government decision to allow dang...

Green Issue: Editorial August 2018

4 September, 2018 - By the Green Issue Editors We must firstly apologize that the Green Issue due at the end of June did not appear. The Australian Greens ch...

Government must come clean on $7 billion transport election war chest, say Greens

3 September, 2018 - Leaked documents showing the Turnbull government hid $7 billion in hidden transport funding in the May budget to allow for election announce...

Europe sends dysfunctional Morrison Government a wake-up call on climate and trade

3 September, 2018 - The Australian Greens have urged the Morrison Government to heed the warnings of the EU over walking away from our Paris commitments.    “Th...

Australia’s Pacific climate cop out a new low: Bandt

3 September, 2018 - Australia’s Pacific climate cop out a new low: Bandt The Prime Minister’s latest round of climate denial is a new low and is rightly being q...

PM Scott Morrison must come out and support ban on LGBTIQ conversion therapy

3 September, 2018 - The new Prime Minister Scott Morrison must come out and commit to stamping out harmful conversion therapy, say the Greens. The Greens’ call ...

Greens demand end to NSW Shark Net Program

3 September, 2018 - As the NSW Government started rolling out shark nets along beaches over the weekend, the Greens are calling for the program to be scrapped a...

Greens congratulate Alicia Payne and look forward to contest of ideas

1 September, 2018 - Tim Hollo, Greens Candidate for Canberra The preselection of Alicia Payne for the seat of Canberra sets the stage for a real contest of i...

Liberal’s WestConnex Sale Locks Sydney into Toll Road Monopoly Future

31 August, 2018 - Today’s announcement by the NSW Liberals that a 51% share of WestConnex has been sold to the Transurban consortium is the nail in the coffin f...

Budget Estimates exposes no additional funding from Government for improving Richmond River health

31 August, 2018 - Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair has revealed at Budget Estimates today that there has been no additional funding allocated to impr...

Steele-John: Australia's transport systems are discriminatory against disabled people

30 August, 2018 -   Thursday, 30 August Australian Greens Disability Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John said today Australia’s inaccessible public...

Words will do nothing for bank competition, only a People’s Bank will

30 August, 2018 - Greens Finance Spokesperson, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, says there is no point in Scott Morrison repeating the exact phrase said ad nauseum b...

PC draft report shows Murray Darling Basin Plan is doomed

30 August, 2018 - The Greens are calling on the National Party to lose the Water Ministry following the release of the Productivity Commission’s damning draft r...

Restoring equity to Victoria’s planning system

30 August, 2018 - Media Release 30/08/2018 The Victorian Greens have pledged to transform the urban planning system as part of their 2018 election campaign. ...