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Services at Banksia Hill must be run by WA MHC

16 November, 2016 - The WA Greens are calling on the Barnett Government to ensure the Mental Health Commission plays a key role in the management of the new acc...

Gender pay gap data shows discrimination alive and well

16 November, 2016 - With the release of data on the gender pay gap today showing women are paid an average of nearly $27,000 less than men, the Australians Gree...

The government's vendetta against Gillian Triggs

16 November, 2016 - The prime minister's confirmation that Gillian Triggs will not be reappointed as President of the Human Rights Commission is the final indig...

Feds must intervene in Macquarie Harbour salmon farm regulation

16 November, 2016 - Greens spokesperson for Healthy Oceans, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, has used the latest EPA reporting on the state of Macquarie Harbour to w...

Slam shut the revolving door between politics and big polluters

16 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens say former Minister Ian Macfarlane's proposal to make environment groups stick to “digging up lantana” shows the dange...

Labor and Liberal vote against protecting local steel industry jobs

16 November, 2016 - In a shameful display of crass politics, the Labor Party today voted with the Liberals to defeat a Bill that would have required all State G...

Plastic pollution, parks and plutocracy

16 November, 2016 - The first election in Tasmania in decades without Christine Milne or Bob Brown on the ticket saw the Greens scrape through with both Senator...

A voice for the people

16 November, 2016 - The last 12 months have basically been at the pace of an election; we tried our best to speak to issues that matter to the community, partic...

Stronger together

16 November, 2016 - A year of ups and downs — the loss of Robert Simms as Senator for South Australia was a hard one, but the mood in the community is turning o...

Summary financial results

16 November, 2016 - The Australian Greens AUSTRALIAN GREENS (THE GREENS) INCORPORATED Income and expenditure statement for the year ended 30 June 2016 2016 ...

Democracy, aid and animals

16 November, 2016 - Positive news in 2016 included the senate reform passed in March, a ban on greyhound racing in NSW and progress in banning cosmetics tested ...

The lens of history

16 November, 2016 - Our member-driven policy platform is one of the foundations of the participatory democracy within our party. This year has been bedding down...

Transition on course

16 November, 2016 - 2016 has seen the transition to the new national structure proceed apace, the beginning of the strategic planning process and a set of grant...

Another world is possible

16 November, 2016 - We must not let ourselves be distracted by the far-right's attempts to have us lay the ills of the world on those who are already doing it t...

Two steps forward

16 November, 2016 - Despite the challenges that 2016 brought us, the Greens made the case for a more caring future and we’re getting results, blocking the worst...