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Democracy in crisis

9 November, 2018 - By Rob Delves, GI Co-editor Democracy – or rather, the lack of it – has thrust itself onto centre stage. Immediately after the coup agains...

Rachel Siewert’s October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Senator Rachel Siewert As per usual the last couple of months have been extremely busy and obviously lots has been happening on the pol...

Robin Chapple’s October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Hon. Robin Chapple, MLC for Mining and Pastoral As we roll into the final stretch of Parliament for the year, looking back at the last ...

Alison Xamon’s October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Hon. Alison Xamon, MLC, Member for North Metropolitan Region The Parliamentary Select Committee into Elder Abuse, of which I was Deputy...

Diane Evers October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Hon. Diane Evers, MLC, Member for South West FIGHTING FOR OUR FORESTS In September we held a very successful workshop at Margaret Ri...

Hollo on drones: pause privatisation of our skies

9 November, 2018 - Tim Hollo, Greens candidate for Canberra, said today: "Canberrans are mighty sick of private companies coming in and steamrolling over com...

Greens support Northcote Electorate State Schools Alliance

9 November, 2018 - Today, Schools Councils from across the electorate of Northcote have launched a unified campaign for better school infrastrucuture fundi...

Tim Clifford’s October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Hon. Tim Clifford, MLC for East Metropolitan My team and I have been steadily working away at letting the public know about the advanta...

Dissection of a Good Campaign

8 November, 2018 - By Laurel de Vietri, Curtin Greens Having been involved in State election campaigns, a local government campaign and now a Federal electio...

The American Dreams of Australian Citizens

8 November, 2018 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor As Australians we should be ashamed of the continued inaction on our many haunting human rights issues and by ...

The War to end all Wars!

8 November, 2018 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor The phrase of this title was probably coined at the end of WW1 to try to give some justification to the ma...

Tourism; at what cost?

8 November, 2018 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor Seven News just promoted Jetstar Australia’s new budget-priced direct flights from Brisbane to Uluru, not ment...

The changing winds of climate change

8 November, 2018 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor On 6th October, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report detailing the l...

Greens Announce Plan for Federal Funding of Rail Tunnel in Illawarra

8 November, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has announced that the Australian Greens will set aside $1.5 billion to start construct...