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Monaro Highway proposal threatens sustainable Canberra vision: ACT Greens

10 April, 2019 - A proposed major realignment of the Monaro Highway at Hume that would skirt nature reserves, cut through a local solar farm and further imperil...

Labor must join Greens and oppose Adani or we’ll all pay the Price

9 April, 2019 -   The Environment Minister has bowed to blackmail from within her own party and ignored scientific and community concerns about water, to tick o...

Australian Greens criticise Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to annex West Bank settlements  

8 April, 2019 - The Australian Greens are extremely concerned at comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend that, if re-elected...

Greens urge Federal Government to stay out of Great Barrier Reef shark control

5 April, 2019 - Greens Healthy Oceans spokesperson, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has urged the Federal Government not to intervene in Queensland’s Shark Control ...

Solar thermal plant should be publicly-owned: Greens

5 April, 2019 - State and Federal Governments must intervene to save Australia’s first baseload solar thermal power plant, following the collapse of Solar Reser...

Defer the Byron Bay bypass local MP says

5 April, 2019 - Member for Ballina Tamara Smith MP wants Byron Shire Council to defer their decision to construct the Byron Bay bypass and instead be part of a ...

The Greens NSW respond to MPs resignation

5 April, 2019 - The Greens NSW co-convenor Rochelle Flood said: "It is unfortunate that Mr Field has taken this position. "In 2015 the people of New South Wa...

Transport super agency needs long term plan

5 April, 2019 - The Victorian Greens have welcomed plans to merge VicRoads and Public Transport Victoria into the Department of Transport as a stand alone body....

Joint committee of animal extinction inquiry recommends new environment laws and a new EPA

4 April, 2019 - The interim report from the Senate inquiry into Australia’s animal extinction crisis recommends new environment laws to limit the drivers of ext...

Greens urge Foreign Minister to act on Brunei’s new laws targeting LGBTQ+ people

4 April, 2019 - The Australian Greens have written to the Foreign Minister Marise Payne to express deep concern over Brunei’s new laws that punish homosexual se...

Greens slam WA Labor government’s extension to destructive native forest logging agreements

4 April, 2019 - With the stroke of a pen rolling over last century’s destructive logging laws, WA Labor has signed the death warrant on threatened animals like ...

Culture, not wars: Old parties turn blind eye to weapons manufacturers funding our national institutions

4 April, 2019 - The major parties today voiced no opposition to major weapons manufacturers funding our national institutions. “Today the Greens spoke agains...

Government has little grasp on extent of hate crime in WA: Greens

4 April, 2019 -  Media Release: 4 April 2019   Greens spokesperson for Multicultural Affairs, Sexuality and Gender Diversity Hon Alison Xamon ML...

Reduction in reoffending impossible without youth justice reform: Greens

4 April, 2019 -  Media Release: Thursday 4 April 2019   Hon Alison Xamon MLC, Greens spokesperson for Corrective Services, has last in Parliamen...