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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...

Climate campaigning must change

2 September, 2017 - Ahri Tallon The bold, well funded and increasingly defiant Stop Adani campaign to stop coal mining in the Galilee basin has been building mo...

MURDOCH UNIVERSITY EBA TERMINATION SHOWS EMPLOYMENT LAWS ARE BROKEN & URGENT CHANGE REQUIRED: BANDT

1 September, 2017 - Murdoch University EBA termination shows employment laws are broken & urgent change required: Bandt Greens employment spokesperson Adam Band...

Greens call on government to step up support for our trans and gender diverse young people

1 September, 2017 - The Australian Greens are calling on the government to increase funding for support services for trans and gender diverse young people, afte...

More services for Trans kids needed to halt suicide rate

1 September, 2017 - The Greens have today called for more investment in services for Trans children following disturbing research undertaken by the Telethon Kid...

Greens call on government to step up support for our trans and gender diverse young people

1 September, 2017 - The Australian Greens are calling on the government to increase funding for support services for trans and gender diverse young people, afte...

Queensland Greens announce universal social housing plan

31 August, 2017 - The Queensland Greens have today announced their plan to establish a universal housing scheme for Queensland, building 1 million affordable ho...

ACT Greens welcome third House of Representatives Seat for ACT

31 August, 2017 - ACT Greens The ACT Greens welcome today’s announcement by the Australian Electoral Commission that the ACT will gain a third seat in the federal House of Representatives.

IT'S TIME TO REREGULATE ELECTRICITY PRICES: GREENS

30 August, 2017 - It's time to reregulate electricity prices: Greens Greens climate change and energy spokesperson Adam Bandt MP has said Malcolm Turnbull’s tea...

A tale of two ideologies

30 August, 2017 - It’s been an odd day today... one that really goes to the question of what sort of society we want to live in. It’s to do with drugs, and how ...