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Australia inhibiting real climate action at home and abroad: Bandt

17 December, 2018 - Australia inhibiting real climate action at home and abroad: Bandt Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today noted t...

University of Wollongong Should Return Cultural Supremacist Ramsay Centre’s Money

17 December, 2018 - Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Australian Greens spokesperson for Education and a former academic, reacted to this morning’s news that the Univ...

Morrison’s MYEFO ignores climate and everyday Australians to chase short-term sham surplus

17 December, 2018 - “Today’s Mid-year Economic Financial Outlook shows that the Coalition is totally out of touch with everyone in our community who is feeling ...

Pigs will fly before heroic MYEFO wage growth forecasts come true

17 December, 2018 - Pigs will fly before heroic MYEFO wage growth forecasts come true Greens employment spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today noted MYEFO joins 8 yea...

Greens: Parliamentary Inquiry Recommendations Expose WestConnex Debacle

17 December, 2018 - The Greens respond to the Report by the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Impact of WestConnex which was secured by the Greens and the communit...

Greens in Senate will hold Labor to environment protections

16 December, 2018 - The strong environmental protections announced by Labor today will fail without proper investment, and a commitment to no new coal, oil and ...

Greens slam ‘Trumpesque’ decision to recognise West Jerusalem as Israeli capital

15 December, 2018 - Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale has slammed the Prime Minister’s decision to formally recognise West Jerusalem as the I...

South Australia must fight for 450GL delivery

14 December, 2018 - The Australian Greens are calling on the South Australian Water Minister to come home from Friday’s Ministerial Council meeting with a commi...

Urgent action needed to save Tassie’s East Coast reefs

14 December, 2018 - The federal and state governments must take action to save Tasmania’s East Coast reefs. “Our reefs are far too important to lose, but right ...

Government must claw back credibility on cat containment: ACT Greens

14 December, 2018 - The Greens are today calling on the ACT Government to better monitor and enforce cat containment in declared areas, given no fines have ever...

Looking back on a year of extremes

14 December, 2018 - 2018 is winding up – and what a year it’s been. But as we get into the new year, we’re going to need your help more than ever. By Richard...

Why higher education in Australia should be free

14 December, 2018 - Under the Greens‘ transformative new plan, university and TAFE graduates can ditch the debt and have twenty thousand dollars extra in their ...

Lessons and learnings from the Victorian state election

14 December, 2018 - With some devastating losses around the state, the Victorian election didn’t play out quite as hoped. But from the disappointments come some...

Reflections on a global year

14 December, 2018 - The past few months have been a flurry of activity for the Global Issues Working Group (GIG) – with some exciting work on the horizon, too. ...

How democratic is the Australian system of government, really?

14 December, 2018 - Australia is often touted as having one of the most robust models of democracy in the world. But how does it compare to that of other progre...