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Government flatly refusing to suspend the drug-testing trial in Logan shows supreme arrogance: Greens

4 September, 2017 - News that the Mayor for Logan travelled to Canberra on Monday to request that the Federal Government suspend drug testing trials in the regi...

Goldfields now largest trial site for Cashless Welfare Card

4 September, 2017 - The announcement by the Prime Minister today confirming that the Goldfields will be the next trial site for the cashless welfare card is ext...

Turnbull, this is not about 'practical love', it's about control

4 September, 2017 - "Malcolm Turnbull's claims that the further rollout of the cashless welfare card is about 'practical love' is nonsense, this is about contro...

Government flatly refusing to suspend the drug-testing trial in Logan shows supreme arrogance: Greens

4 September, 2017 - News that the Mayor for Logan travelled to Canberra on Monday to request that the Federal Government suspend drug testing trials in the regi...

Diane's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Diane Evers MLC My first three months as a Member of Parliament have been exciting but have flown by. It has been a very steep learning ...

Country Councils: a pathway to participating in change

2 September, 2017 - Hon Diane Evers MLC Do you know that the Donnybrook-Balingup Shire provides a fortnightly green-waste compost bin for its residents with fre...

Update on Manus and Nauru

2 September, 2017 - Shek Graham The situation for refugees and people seeking asylum, held illegally on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the tiny isla...

Robin's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Robin Chapple MLC The last month or so has been so busy, Ive hardly spent any time down in Perth!! I spent a week and a half up in the P...

A Mayor’s Perspective

2 September, 2017 - Brad Pettitt The importance of local government is wonderfully outlined in Benjamin Barbers book “If Mayors Ruled the World” – a book which ...

Tim's Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Tim Clifford MLC What a journey. It seems like yesterday that I was walking the streets of the East Metropolitan region campaigning to g...

Reading and Riding – thanks local government

2 September, 2017 - Rob Delves As a teacher, it annoys me intensely when people say things like “stop wasting time on all this fringe feel-good extra stuff – ju...

Beyond terra nullius

2 September, 2017 - Chris Johansen Growing up in the 1950s my only exposure to aborigines was fleeting glances of humpies on the outskirts of country towns, as ...

Alison’s Page

2 September, 2017 - Hon Alison Xamon MLC It has been quite the hiatus since my last contribution to Green Issue (2013!). I am very pleased to be back. A big tha...