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Greens will move to disallow unfair family reunion changes

1 May, 2018 - The Greens will move in the Senate to overturn recent changes to the Assurance of Support scheme, which drastically increase the income people nee...

Safe Cycling and Pedestrian Crossings for Northcote

1 May, 2018 - Lidia Thorpe has called for investment in more Safe Cycling and Pedestrian Crossings for kids ahead of the State Budget.Lidia met with residents o...

Voices of 600,000 young people being ignored by Labor Party and Government

1 May, 2018 - Monday, 30 April 2018 Australian Greens Youth spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has slammed Bill Shorten and the Labor party for failing to ...

I'll keep fighting for our stadium for women's sports

1 May, 2018 - Lidia Thorpe has expressed disapointment that the Andrews Government has failed to invest in the Darebin Sport Stadium in the 2018 Budget, a much ...

Statewide cuts for CRCs

1 May, 2018 - Community Resource Centres are set to lose as much as $94,000 as a result of State Government cutbacks. Greens (WA) MLC for the South West, Diane ...

Greens call for an increase to Newstart and Youth Allowance in Budget

30 April, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has today called on the Government to increase Newstart and Youth Allowance in the budget by $75 a wee...

Withdrawal of Manus Island health services

30 April, 2018 - Today’s withdrawal of International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) as the Australian government’s health provider on Manus Island will mean...

Changes to MDBP must be blocked: Greens

30 April, 2018 - Proposed changes to the Murray Darling Basin Plan that take 605 billion litres away from the environment must be blocked in the Senate next wee...

Water keeps them from us

30 April, 2018 - Chris Johansen Australia has a long history of accepting asylum seekers, but only those of European origin prior to the 1970s (i.e. White Au...

Fracking: lessons to learn from dryland salinity

30 April, 2018 - Dr Ryan Vogwill Fracking has become one of the most controversial issues of our times. But there are some antecedent large scale landscape c...

Robin Chapple’s April Update

30 April, 2018 - Hon. Robin Chapple April? Already? My team and I have just come out of a series of sitting weeks in Parliament, and yet again Im reminded...

Policy in Focus - Water

30 April, 2018 - Mark Cooper and Vivienne Glance As we all know, water is essential to life and how we use and preserve our water sources is crucial to our s...

Should we stay, or should we go?

30 April, 2018 - Anthony Pyle Being a scuba diver and a passionate environmentalist, you may find the two dont always meld as seamlessly as you might hope. O...

Alison Xamon’s April Update

30 April, 2018 - Hon. Alison Xamon It has been a busy start to the Parliamentary year since the Legislative Council began sitting again in mid-March with mos...

Water: Value it as Precious, Use it Carefully, Price it Fairly

30 April, 2018 - Rob Delves Im part of a household of four and our last few 60-day water bills have averaged $300, so our annual water bill should total abou...