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Housing and COVID-19

4 May, 2020 - In addition to the usual social justice aspects of evictions there are now compelling public health reasons to stop them By Kate Davis, long te...

Coronavirus Impact on Climate Change

4 May, 2020 - Reflections of a climate activist: into hiatus but with optimism about converting action on a pandemic into effective action on climate change ...

Delays on West Gate Tunnel are further proof it was a bad idea from the start

4 May, 2020 - The Victorian Greens have said the reported delays on the state government’s West Gate Tunnel project are further proof that it was a bad idea fro...

This Whispering in our Hearts

4 May, 2020 - The Bushfires and COVID-19 remind us that we aren’t separate from nature and able to dominate it to satisfy our every desire. Vulnerability is par...

Community garden and zero emissions grants available

4 May, 2020 - The popular ACT Government grants for community gardens and zero emissions projects are now open with $167,000 available to help community groups ...

New Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment appointed

4 May, 2020 - Dr Sophie Lewis has been appointed as the new Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, the Minister for Climate Change and Sustainabil...

Emergencies and Emergencies

4 May, 2020 - The contrasting responses of the Australian Government, and many other governments for that matter, to COVID-19 and climate change By Chris Joh...

COVID-19 ‒ A GP Perspective

4 May, 2020 - Observations from the front line on how we are managing this pandemic By Dr Jane Ralls, GP in Mt Hawthorn and long-term member of the Greens an...

Now's not the time to drop taxes for the rich

1 May, 2020 - Bringing forward personal income tax cuts in an attempt to kickstart spending is a shortsighted move of economic vandalism, Greens Leader Adam Ban...

Modelling predicts ‘pandemic price tag’ for young people: $35,000

1 May, 2020 - Young people starting their first job following the COVID-19 crisis will earn on average $35,000 less than their peers over the next decade – a 6%...

Government action needed to prevent more women being killed by violence

1 May, 2020 - The Greens are calling for an urgent crisis response to the number of women killed by violence  
following the murder of Brisbane-based mother Jac...

Head of VicForests is a science denier, role should be reviewed, say Greens

1 May, 2020 - The Greens have condemned VicForests chief executive, Monique Dawson, for her comments towards Professor David Lindenmayer, one of the world’s mos...

Vale Deb Foskey

1 May, 2020 - Shane Rattenbury, ACT Greens leader and Member for Kurrajong Caroline Le Couteur MLA, Member for Murrumbidgee The ACT Greens are saddened by t...

Time for Taylor to go: Greens

30 April, 2020 - Embattled Minister Angus Taylor should be sacked, after today’s finding by the Environment Department that a company part-owned by him illegall...

Bridget McKenzie must appear before sports rorts senate inquiry, say Greens

30 April, 2020 - Greens Senators Janet Rice and Larissa Waters have called for Bridget McKenzie to appear before the sports rorts senate committee following una...