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A year of hope and change

18 January, 2019 - 2019 is shaping up to be a huge year – and we’re going to need all the energy we can gather and more if we‘re going to make it the turning po...

The good, the bad and the ugly of climate change in 2018

18 January, 2019 - As the planet relentlessly warms, action to address it is also heating up.  But while other parties are quickly adopting the cause, the ...

How to spread the #ChangeTheDate message

18 January, 2019 - January 26 marks more than 200 years of ongoing dispossession and oppression for First Nations peoples – but many people are against changing...

20 Questions with Dale Clisby

18 January, 2019 - Dale Clisby is the Digital Organising Coordinator for the Australian Greens. He shares a glimpse into what makes him tick – from his love for...

The Greens won't let Morrison punish councils for doing the right thing: Di Natale

16 January, 2019 - Any local council punished for refusing to host citizenship ceremonies on January 26th under Scott Morrison's new proposal can count on a Gre...

Greens NSW Senator and Engineer to Visit Menindee and Broken Hill Tomorrow

16 January, 2019 - Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, will visit Broken Hill and Menindee tomorrow (17 January) to meet with locals and see first hand t...

Seismic testing go-ahead bad for SA

15 January, 2019 - Seismic testing is the first step to drilling in the Great Australian Bight and will have devastating outcomes for SA, the Greens say.   “Thi...

Govt under pressure to release secret documents over Menindee Lakes

15 January, 2019 - The Liberal National Government are hiding critical information about draining the Menindee Lakes twice in three years, the Greens say.   “T...

Victorian 2019 Duck Shooting Season Must be Cancelled

15 January, 2019 - The Victorian Greens are urging the Andrews Government to cancel the 2019 duck shooting season after the Game Management Authority acknowledg...

Govt must buy water back for the environment: Greens

14 January, 2019 - The Greens are urging the Liberal National Government to lift the freeze on water buy backs to restore much-needed flows to the Murray Darlin...

Koalas Need Urgent Intervention to Save Remaining Habitat

14 January, 2019 - Chair of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Koala Populations and their Habitat, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says that the government must prote...

SMART drumline trial on Sydney's Northern Beaches should mean the removal of destructive shark nets

11 January, 2019 - The Greens NSW are calling for the removal of shark nets on Sydney's Northern Beaches following the announcement that a trial of SMART d...

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...