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Greens call for emergency water measures in wake of unprecedented fish kill

9 January, 2019 - The Federal Water Minister must force the NSW and QLD Governments to urgently invoke their powers and embargo the cotton industry’s water extr...

Greens Call for Inquiry into Horse Traceability Across Australia

8 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has launched a campaign for an inquiry into a National Horse Traceabili...

Fish, minus environmental water, equals mass death events

8 January, 2019 - More reports of dead native fish floating in their thousands in the Lower Darling sends a dreadful signal on the health of the River.   “This...

Saudi woman trapped in Bangkok must be brought to Australia: Greens

7 January, 2019 - Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has called on the Liberal Government to issue emergency travel documents to a young Saudi woman t...

Green Issue: Editorial December 2018

6 January, 2019 - By the Green Issue Editors In the months leading to the expected May 2019 federal election, the Editors want each edition of Green Issue to...

Owning a Home

6 January, 2019 - By Jesse Hutchinson, Greens Candidate for Fremantle From as young as I can remember I’ve always been fascinated by houses and more broadly ...

Housing Nothing but our Hopes

6 January, 2019 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor So, what is the ‘Australian dream’? Let’s lay it out. It’s a three-bedroom house on a quarter acre block with a...

Housing First to Tackle Homelessness

6 January, 2019 - By Jaiden Coonan*, Fremantle-Tangney Greens The state government is preparing to release its draft report on its 10 year strategy to end ho...

Housing for All

6 January, 2019 - By Rob Delves, GI Co-editor The Greens policy to build 500,000 affordable rental homes is absolutely correct… But Where’s the money going t...

Rising Temperatures

6 January, 2019 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor Although ‘economics’ is derided as the ‘dismal science’, I would suggest that an even more dismal one is ‘c...

GIG in Action

6 January, 2019 - By Sean Bruce-Cullen, GIG WA Rep The Global Issues Working Group (GIG) is a national working group of the Australian Greens that includes (...

Jordon Steele-John’s December Update

6 January, 2019 - By Senator Jordon Steele-John What an incredible whirlwind the last year has been! Just over one year ago to the day we found out that our ...

Robin Chapple’s December Update

5 January, 2019 - By Hon. Robin Chapple, MLC for Mining and Pastoral This year, your Greens (WA) team has been busy kicking goals and getting wins across the...

Alison Xamon’s December Update

5 January, 2019 - By Hon. Alison Xamon, MLC, Member for North Metropolitan Region The second half of the year has been extremely busy, not least because we h...

Diane Evers’ December Update

5 January, 2019 - By Hon. Diane Evers, MLC, Member for South West HAPPY HOLIDAYS! With the year drawing to a close, I hope everyone takes an opportunity t...