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Greens support Northcote Electorate State Schools Alliance

9 November, 2018 - Today, Schools Councils from across the electorate of Northcote have launched a unified campaign for better school infrastrucuture fundi...

Tim Clifford’s October Update

9 November, 2018 - By Hon. Tim Clifford, MLC for East Metropolitan My team and I have been steadily working away at letting the public know about the advanta...

Dissection of a Good Campaign

8 November, 2018 - By Laurel de Vietri, Curtin Greens Having been involved in State election campaigns, a local government campaign and now a Federal electio...

The American Dreams of Australian Citizens

8 November, 2018 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor As Australians we should be ashamed of the continued inaction on our many haunting human rights issues and by ...

The War to end all Wars!

8 November, 2018 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor The phrase of this title was probably coined at the end of WW1 to try to give some justification to the ma...

Tourism; at what cost?

8 November, 2018 - By Max Larkin, GI Co-editor Seven News just promoted Jetstar Australia’s new budget-priced direct flights from Brisbane to Uluru, not ment...

The changing winds of climate change

8 November, 2018 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor On 6th October, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report detailing the l...

Call for shark cull no solution

8 November, 2018 - Calls for mass shark culls by conservative politicians would be an ineffective and irresponsible response to recent attacks in Queensland, ac...

ABC is the answer to soft-diplomacy in Asia-Pacific

8 November, 2018 - The Greens will move for responsibility and funding to be restored to the ABC to share content with the Asia-Pacific region in the Senate nex...

Our nation needs strong public interest journalism

8 November, 2018 - Today’s ACCC decision green-lighting the merger of Nine and Fairfax is another wake-up call to why we need strong, independent public broadca...

Greens Announce Plan for Federal Funding of Rail Tunnel in Illawarra

8 November, 2018 - Australian Greens Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has announced that the Australian Greens will set aside $1.5 billion to start construct...

RDN and Jordon – on stage

7 November, 2018 - By Chris Johansen, GI Co-editor Yes, Richard Di Natale was in town to launch the campaign to get Jordon re-elected, which is going to be n...

Government could be sued for ignoring water laws for Adani

7 November, 2018 - Greens mining spokesperson Senator Larissa Waters says the Government should be sued for ignoring water laws for Adani’s 12.5 billion litre w...

Deliver protection for LGBT+ students and staff in religious schools now, not after election: Greens

7 November, 2018 - The Morrison government must deliver now on its promise to remove discrimination against LGBT+ students in religious schools, and include tea...

Report finds increased landclearing kills 10 million native animals in NSW every year

7 November, 2018 - A new report by WWF has found that about 87 millions native animals were killed by land clearing in the NSW between 1998 and 2015. The r...